William Proxmire Quotes

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William Proxmire

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• I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Man
  • Way
  • Standards

• When I first ran for Congress, I went to my daughter Alexandra, who was going to be a senior in high school, and said: 'I have a chance to run. I may not win, but I'd be gone three nights a week. So, if you want me to stay, I'll be happy to.' And do you know what she said to me? 'Mother, get a life!'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Life
  • School
  • May

• You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • You
  • Afraid
  • Getting

• In certain states, if a woman makes $12,000 a year, and lives with her quarter-of-a million dollar boyfriend and they don't get married, as long as they don't get married, she gets maybe 20 or 30 thousand dollars in pre-tax benefits in terms of food stamps, health care and housing allowance.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Health
  • Married
  • Health care

• Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • Nothing
  • Without
  • Standards

• I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Me
  • Human
  • Lion

• A big part of our plan will be unleashing the power of the private sector to create more jobs at higher pay. And that means for us, creating an infrastructure bank to get private funds off the sidelines and complement our private investments.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Power

• For me, as a child, I certainly thought that there were more black people in the world than white people.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• Throughout every presidency since the heist of our country from indigenous peoples, the black American experience has been exceptional in its discomfort. And no chief executive of this great nation has, in earnest, developed a unique plan to remedy that discomfort.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Great
  • Country
  • Experience

• Don't limit yourself to wearing a black dress because it's 'slimming.'

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
  • Black

• The American Music Awards mean more to us; that's a people's award, and we're a people's band. The Grammys are the critics.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • People
  • Music
  • American

• will take a look at what they do propose. The main thing we're looking for is, if they are continuing to operate, it must be in a way that does not violate air-quality standards.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Quality
  • Air
  • Standards

• I plan to eliminate the equity cap in investment, and I also plan large-scale deregulation to meet global standards.

  

  Lee Myung-bak
  • Investment
  • Standards
  • Eliminate

• The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Improvement
  • Performances
  • Standards

• No matter what any of the grammar teachers say, punctuation is an arbitrary matter. It should be used to make sentences clear.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Teacher
  • Clear
  • Sentences

• Middle-income living standards, and poverty for that matter, are best addressed through employment growth. By maintaining low inflation and low expectations of inflation, you can create new employment.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Growth
  • Poverty
  • Standards

• She's been through growing up without a mother & makes my heart all of a sudden.

  

  Kang Seung-jo
  • Up
  • Heart
  • She

• The standards for ballot access in New York State apply equally to all candidates seeking a given political nomination, ... In other words, all similarly situated are treated equally.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Political
  • Words
  • New York

• The first step is to measure whatever can easily be measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard that which can't be easily measured or to give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading. The third step is to presume that what can't be measured easily really isn't important. This is blindness. The fourth step is to say that what can't be easily measured really doesn't exist. This is suicide.

  

  Charles Handy
  • Important
  • Value
  • Suicide

• The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation.

  

  Cornelius Cardew AMM
  • Authority
  • Improvisation
  • Jumping

• You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you do, but because you have no privacy.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • Work
  • Celebrity
  • Privacy

• I don’t understand why things always go from perfect to weird with us. It’s like we’re incapable of normal human interaction.

  

  Stephanie Perkins
  • Perfect
  • Weird
  • Interaction

• In my movies, there has been little to do in the way of animal rights. I have never worked in a movie with animals. No horse-riding, no trained dogs, lions, bears. A few actors, but what could I do? We had to have them.

  

  Casey Affleck
  • Animal
  • Dog
  • Actors

• The recommended daily allowances are based on arbitrary, unscientific, and tainted standards.

  

  William Proxmire
  • Standards
  • Arbitrary
  • Allowance