William Weld Quotes

It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.

William Weld

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• Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Power
  • Black
  • Brain

• My mum wouldn't have had any time for fantasy stuff; she's more practical.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Time
  • Stuff
  • Fantasy

• Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Thought
  • Start

• I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.

  

  Francesca Lia Block
  • Believe
  • Positive
  • Happiness

• I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and distinctive personality blends with the wind, with the footsteps in the street, with the noises around the corner, and with the silence of memory, which is the great producer of ghosts.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Great
  • Personality

• On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.

  

  Candace Parker
  • School
  • High
  • Reality

• Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Like
  • Kindness
  • Loving

• I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Work
  • Music
  • Girl

• Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Why
  • Job

• Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it's the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did.

  

  Faith Prince
  • People
  • Done
  • Fun

• A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Up
  • Time
  • Year

• I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Up
  • Good
  • Lose

• Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Architecture
  • Logic
  • Often

• Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Used
  • Prosperity
  • Instrument

• What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.

  

  Urs Fischer
  • World
  • Art
  • Doing

• I had my own motor boat which we would take to Khadakvasla, but that was 40 years ago.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Years
  • Own
  • Boat

• If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • Bad
  • Want

• Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Family
  • Together
  • Changes

• I think daily deals are a good idea. Any ad people view as content is a good ad, and that's true for daily-deal ads too.

  

  Matt Cohler
  • People
  • Good
  • True

• In my mind, he's done an amazing job, and he's certainly one of the favorites for national coach of the year. To think what's done there after losing so much from last year's team, it just blows my mind.

  

  Dick Vitale
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Job

• No, no, I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Shadow
  • Substance
  • Deceived

• The simple and terrifying reality, forbidden from discussion in America, was that despite spending $600 billion a year on the military, despite having the best fighting force the world had ever known, they were getting their asses kicked by illiterate peasants who made bombs out of manure and wood.

  

  Michael Hastings
  • America
  • Fighting
  • Military

• Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • Moral
  • Humanitarian

• It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.

  

  William Weld
  • Moral
  • Healthy
  • Office