Tom Ridge Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.
-
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
-
I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.
-
Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
-
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.
-
Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
-
When I'm writing, I mean what I'm saying - there's a lot of me in each song.
-
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.
-
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.
-
New Year's resolutions work like this: you think of something you enjoy doing and then resolve to stop doing it.
-
Once you know the Romance languages, singing in those languages is so sexy and sensual. I do have a global audience, so why not?
-
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.
-
I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]
-
I never had a long-term plan.
-
I think I have a lot of room for improvement. My serve is okay, but I need to work on a lot of things: return, transition game, backhand.
-
If Life hands you a lemon, throw it at someone...
-
The start of a World Cross Country event is like riding a horse in the middle of a buffalo stampede. It's a thrill if you keep up, but one slip and you're nothing but hoof prints.
-
A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing.
-
It's really awful, the rhetoric that's becoming part of the national discourse, but when it has such an ugly headline - that's what activated a group of people that was otherwise complacent to go, "Hey, I'm going down to the airport, and I'm going to hold hands in solidarity around Muslims in the arrival section of the airport." That's why I've made a choice to be so public about my position.
-
It would be like describing colors to someone blind from birth: The words might be understood, but the concept would remain mysterious and private.
-
Marco Rubio is a talented young man, but record trumps rhetoric.
