Tom Ridge Quotes

Marco Rubio is a talented young man, but record trumps rhetoric.

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• Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.

  

  Aaron D. O'Connell
  • You
  • Things
  • Connections

• The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Genius
  • Public
  • Forgives

• I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.

  

  Laura Marling
  • See
  • Hear
  • Whatever

• Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Good
  • May
  • Want

• To be smart on crime, we should not be in a position of constantly reacting to crime after it happens. We should be looking at preventing crime before it happens.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Smart
  • Crime
  • Looking

• Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Good
  • Work
  • Star

• When I'm writing, I mean what I'm saying - there's a lot of me in each song.

  

  Imelda May
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Saying

• And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Mother
  • Today
  • Success

• That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Free

• There's an adage that a lot of coaches have, that I completely disagree with, is if you make the Olympic team too early you become complacent.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • You
  • Team
  • Early

• New Year's resolutions work like this: you think of something you enjoy doing and then resolve to stop doing it.

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • Work
  • Stop

• Once you know the Romance languages, singing in those languages is so sexy and sensual. I do have a global audience, so why not?

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Why
  • Singing
  • Language

• Punk rock isn't supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Rock
  • Boring
  • Club

• I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Hippie
  • Mud
  • I Don't

• I never had a long-term plan.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Long
  • Never
  • Plan

• And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • May
  • Man
  • Hero

• I think the 360 deals are what stands out to me, first and foremost. I never would have dreamed that record labels would be taking a piece of touring, merchandise, and everything else. The world has changed so dramatically from when we first started.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • First
  • Record
  • Dreamed

• In America, at least, we have a pretty good record for behaving in a fiscally responsible fashion, with one exception - namely, the fiscal irresponsibility that prevails when, and only when, hard-line conservatives are in power.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Power
  • America
  • Fashion

• We were a musical family, and we had record players. It would be a family thing to listen to music together.

  

  Rory Charles Graham
  • Musical Family
  • Record
  • Players

• Marco Rubio is a talented young man, but record trumps rhetoric.

  

  Tom Ridge
  • Record
  • Rhetoric
  • Young Man