J. William Fulbright Quotes

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.

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• I think when you're dealing with very tenuous scenes and difficult and heavy subject matter, it's important to be close intimately with your cast as friends, and be able to diffuse a lot of that tension and trust each other with the work.

  

  Jack Falahee
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• My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.

  

  Balthazar Getty
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• I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.

  

  Jack Canfield
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• All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
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• I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

  

  Edith Sitwell
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• Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
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• The biggest challenge is always the governments - they try to stop all good things. I try to stay away from them as much as I can, as I know if someone can destroy something good, it's the government.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Good
  • Stop
  • Government

• Migration - whether emigration or return - at the micro level is an individual choice, and government both at the Centre and the states have role only to facilitate the decision of the individuals.

  

  Vayalar Ravi
  • Government
  • Decision
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• Uncertainty is normal in the first few days of a new government.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Government
  • Uncertainty

• The Supreme Court must strike down the government's illegal spying program as a violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Down
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• If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.

  

  Gary Hart
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• Do we have to give Mr Sarkozy a history lesson? Yes, there are Gauls among our ancestors. But there are also Romans, Normans, Celts, Nicois, Corsicans, Arabs, Italians, Spanish. That's France.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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• When I became governor, I vowed to restore the public's trust.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Trust
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• If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Women
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• Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
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• I don't trust a lot of journalists.

  

  Calvin Klein
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• We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

  

  Walter Anderson
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• ...The peculiarity about him is that he has what is essentially a boy's mind. What he thinks he says at once, says aloud. It is his distinguishing characteristic, and I don't know as he will ever outgrow it. But with it he has great qualities which make him an invaluable public servant--inflexible honesty, absolute fearlessness, and devotion to good government which amounts to religion. We must let him work his way, for nobody can induce him to change it

  

  Edmund Morris
  • Government
  • Religion
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• While you are improvising, you need to be prepared, and I like to have a sense of who the character is, what she likes to read, where she grew up, where we went to school, and what she has for breakfast, so that when I go to set, I'm free to explore.

  

  Felicity Jones
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• Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Me
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• Dana White, bring me someone that can beat me. You can't find no one that can beat me.

  

  Jorge Masvidal
  • Find
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• The worst thing you can have as an actor is too big an ego. It just kills creativity.

  

  Ari Graynor
  • Creativity
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• The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Government
  • Trust
  • Lesson