Tom Allen Quotes

President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office

Tom Allen

• Energy
• President
• Company
• Office
• Mercury

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • College
  • Myself
  • Confidence

• I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • World
  • Why
  • Night

• The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Soul
  • Solitude
  • Thoughtful

• I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.

  

  Karen Hesse
  • Book
  • Health
  • Teacher

• I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Real

• My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Good
  • Song
  • Enough

• I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.

  

  Yael Stone
  • People
  • Work
  • Happy

• I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Up
  • Know
  • Thought

• I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Running

• I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Happy
  • Rich
  • Concentration

• I don't particularly like L.A.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Like
  • Particularly

• China's own recent history proves that when it opens itself, there is nothing its people cannot accomplish. A more open China will lead to a more prosperous and stable China. That's good for China, the United States and, indeed, the entire world.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Character
  • Player
  • Basketball

• Sort of like, I have to make the Japanese lyrics really deep.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Like
  • Deep
  • Lyrics

• You're always going to be more judgmental about your own performance than anyone else.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • You
  • Always
  • Performance

• Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Character
  • Mean
  • Will

• I think Hollywood has seen what fandom can do for a project. You can definitely see that when you go to Comic-con.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Think
  • You
  • Hollywood

• It's an honor for me to contribute to Houston's younger generations and show them that 'smart is cool.'

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Cool
  • Smart
  • Honor

• Few times in history do totalitarian or authoritarian regimes successfully repress their people for more than two generations, and zero times in history do these regimes last much longer than that, relatively speaking.

  

  Daniel Lubetzky
  • People
  • History

• I always thought it was a B.S. thing that they didn't show it [scalping] in other Westerns, but especially if you're going to really go with the idea that we're desecrating the bodies, and the idea is to strike fear in the hearts of other German soldiers, then we had to see what they're talking about.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Heart
  • Fear
  • Ideas

• I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. ...Nobody really sells records anymore.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • Artist
  • Records
  • Days

• If you Americans aren't from the stone age then explain to me how your president is a ****ing pterodactyl

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Age
  • President
  • Stones

• The only argument this president needs to persuade Americans is that sacking Saddam is necessary for the security of America and the West, of civilization as we know it. All those other goals are nice, worthy even, but irrelevant to the job immediately at hand.

  

  Wesley Pruden
  • America
  • President
  • Security

• President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office

  

  Tom Allen
  • Energy
  • President
  • Company