Allen Stanford Quotes

I always lived very frugally. I flew around on a private jet. I had a boat. But I always lived very frugally.

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• The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Say
  • Three

• Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Nature
  • Death
  • Humility

• You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional - and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • People
  • Pretty
  • You

• I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Nice
  • Party
  • Cool

• The challenge for Muslims in America is to respect the fears of ordinary people while resisting the exploitation of those fears by political parties, lobbies and sectors of the media. To meet this challenge, Muslims must reassess their own involvement, behavior and contributions in American society.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • People
  • American
  • America

• 'In My Hands,' the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I'm not a singer as such. But I've always wanted to express myself vocally on my albums, and I don't really have much of a capability for singing. The strength is in, I think, the lyrics and just speaking. It just comes from inside.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • Lyrics

• What the Republicans have said is rather than touch one hair on the heads of the wealthiest people in our country, people who make over $1 million a year, they're saying, 'Seniors should pay $6,000 more dollars a year. But please don't let us ask the wealthiest to do their fair share.'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Country
  • Hair

• They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Present

• I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Pretty
  • Songs
  • Mysterious

• There is a tendency to underestimate the power of what we can do without words. Sometimes you can make a scene even more powerful and precise without dialogue.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Power
  • Words
  • Powerful

• When I was a teenager, I had a record company after me. They wanted me to be a pop act. They said they wanted me to be the next Sonia. I was 16 at the time. I said, 'No thank you.'

  

  Imelda May
  • Time
  • Me
  • Company

• The airport paparazzi kind of wigs me out a little bit.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Me
  • Little
  • Airport

• The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience. There's lots of good fish in the sea ... maybe ... but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • World
  • Good
  • Experience

• Is it possible to live in this world without the operation of will?

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • World
  • Live

• Democrats cannot conceive of 'hate speech' towards Christians because, in their eyes, Christians always deserve it.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Hate
  • Eyes

• Let's all strive to be more entrepreneurial, and I think we'll all be in a better place.

  

  Alexis Ohanian

• The way that we are going to solve social problems is by working with multiple different types of investing.

  

  Laurene Powell Jobs
  • Different

• I've always been good at talking about my feelings; that helps with writing songs.

  

  Anne-Marie
  • Good
  • Writing

• If it is right for men to fight for their freedom, and God knows what the human race would be like today if men had not, since time began, fought for their freedom, then it is right for women to fight for their freedom and the freedom of the children they bear.

  

  Emmeline Pankhurst
  • Time
  • God
  • Men

• To me the motif itself is an insignificant factor; what I want to reproduce is what lies between the motif and me.. .Other painters paint a bridge, a house, a boat.. .I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house and the boat are to be found - the beauty of the air around them, and that is nothing less than the impossible.

  

  Claude Monet
  • House
  • Air
  • Lies

• In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car.

  John Moody
  • Time
  • Car
  • Boat

• How is this any different than the big boat argument of people when it came to African-Americans after the Civil War, decided, 'Put them on a boat and send them back where they came from?' You know, he says it in polite language, but that's what Romney's been saying, 'Get home where you came from, start all over again.'

  

  Chris Matthews
  • People
  • Different
  • Home

• I always lived very frugally. I flew around on a private jet. I had a boat. But I always lived very frugally.

  

  Allen Stanford
  • Boat
  • Frugally
  • Private Jet