Tom Hayden (Thomas Emmet Hayden) Quotes

I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered.

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• We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Time
  • Today
  • Wednesday

• When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Want
  • Me
  • Inspired

• The significance and volume of repairs that are needed across the country demand that we give state and local governments the long-term certainty they need to effectively execute these projects.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Long
  • Country
  • Need

• Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton and I were the first female headliners, where we would book our own opening acts. Before that, it was a standing joke that it was more like we had 'pretty little girl singers' opening for a male headliner.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Book
  • Pretty
  • Girl

• We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Believe
  • Stop

• I am very proud of Jim Leiken. He has worked with me for six years and has been patient enough to learn the ropes. He's now matured into a true chef and is working on building his team.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Team
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  • Chef

• Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Hope
  • Past
  • Fear

• If at first you don't succeed, you get back up and you try ... and you try ... and you try it again ... except ice skating, I hate this crap, I quit!

  

  Little Richard
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Hate

• Papa didn't cuss, he didn't raise a whole lot of fuss. But when we did wrong, Papa beat the hell out of us.

  

  James Brown
  • Family
  • Hell
  • Beats

• I make the girls jump like I'm Kris Kross

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Girl
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  • Bragging

• Only by great risks can great results be achieved.

  

  Xerxes I
  • Great

• We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • Products
  • Adam
  • Descendants

• When I was growing up we didn't have a massive house and there were five women running around, so my dad and I had to stick together!

  

  Louis Tomlinson One Direction
  • Up
  • Women
  • Together

• I am working for a better United Nations. Nothing is perfect. You should never rely on only one source, but rather rely on those you believe in the most.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Believe
  • Perfect
  • Rely

• Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about the science of money while I am at it; it is an extraordinarily interesting subject.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Work
  • Money
  • Mother

• Don’t despair if your heart has been through a lot of trauma. Sometimes that’s how beautiful hearts are remade: they are shattered first.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Heart
  • Beautiful
  • Despair

• As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely we are to get a strike.

  

  Alex Faickney Osborn
  • Creative
  • Follow
  • Accidents

• I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered.

  

  Tom Hayden
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  • Answers
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