Alexander Cannon Quotes

A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led.

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• Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Why
  • More
  • Soccer

• Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It's not. The U.S. federal government created all these sectors.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Technology
  • Government

• Speech happens to not be his language.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Language
  • Happens
  • Speech

• Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Peace
  • Never
  • Quiet

• 'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Character
  • Game
  • Balance

• I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Long
  • City
  • Grandmother

• I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'

  

  Gary Ross
  • Movie
  • Doing
  • Entertainment

• The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Nice
  • Woman
  • Child

• I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick Jungle' were once young women who came to New York and we see their early experiences through flashbacks.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Women
  • New York
  • Lipstick

• I cry a lot, and I have no problem with that at all. Listening to your emotions is part of being alive.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Problem
  • Listening
  • Emotions

• Endorphins are a very powerful thing.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Powerful
  • Thing
  • Very

• I used to game a lot, you know, back in the day. My gaming time done got so short that my skills ain't where they need to be to be online, you know what I'm saying? I just got that Xbox One. I gotta get my skills back, up the par to call myself a gamer.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • Song
  • Write

• As a political current, Maoism was always weak in Britain, confined largely to students from Asia, Africa and Latin America.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • America
  • Political
  • Latin

• Remember, while the work can sometimes appear to be simple to a viewer, the ability to perform expertly, consistently, precisely, over and over again, under pressure and on demand is what's needed.

  

  Randy West
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Simple

• If you fight angry, you make a lot of mistakes, and when you fight a sharp, witty fighter like me, you can't make mistakes.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Fight
  • Angry
  • Mistakes

• I'm not from a political family and didn't grow up dreaming of being George Washington. I started working in 8th grade and have held every odd job possible - working in a gravel pit, weighing big wheelers, ticket sales, data base management - but I knew if I worked hard and got experience, I could apply that experience to my next endeavor.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Up
  • Family
  • Experience

• Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Wrong
  • Gullible

• I hope I don't get a roundhouse kick from Chuck Norris.

  

  Chuck Norris
  • Hope
  • Roundhouse
  • Chuck Norris

• A mood of constructive criticism being upon me, I propose forthwith that the method of choosing legislators now prevailing in the United States be abandoned and that the method used in choosing juries be substituted. That is to say, I propose that the men who make our laws be chosen by chance and against will of all the rest of us, as now.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Law
  • Rest

• If Bill Shawn liked the piece, then he would run it. But he wanted the magazine to be something that was more than just a weekly event. And as a result you could pick up a New Yorker under him, as I mentioned before, a year from then or 10 years or 20 years and there would always be something worth reading in it.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Reading
  • Run
  • Result

• I'm strong and spiritual, and I know that everything will work out for a reason.

  

  Jamie-Lynn Sigler
  • Work
  • Strong
  • Spiritual

• My dad is a really cool guy, but he showed me 'The Shining,' and I was like, 'Hey, dad. I'm thirsty. Let's go get a Coke.' So we went to the vending machine, and he hid... and I turned back, and I was like, 'Dad? Dad?' And the elevator scene came to my mind.

  

  Daniel Zovatto
  • Mind
  • Guy
  • Dad

• A small mind is obstinate. A great mind can lead and be led.

  

  Alexander Cannon
  • Mind
  • Led
  • Obstinate