William Weld Quotes

I`m an old duck hunter. I like to go hunting where the ducks are. We`re looking for votes. I think maybe poaching some of those soft Donald Trump Republican votes would be the place to go.

William Weld

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• The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.

  

  Barnaby C. Keeney
  • Up
  • Education
  • College

• Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Mind
  • Sound
  • Foundation

• I don't think I have a signature.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Think
  • Signature

• Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Me
  • Peace
  • Public

• Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Done
  • She
  • Experience

• Any competent actor could have done what I did.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Done
  • Actor
  • Did

• If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Live
  • Night
  • Stars

• Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Work
  • Petty
  • Awards

• If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.

  

  Usher
  • You
  • Lazy
  • Get

• I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Life
  • History
  • Circumstances

• What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are beautiful from an aesthetic point of view, but without our modern energy.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • Art
  • Beautiful
  • Energy

• We never did these kinds of loans that really started this mess, the subprime loans. We just never got into that business. We were enticed a lot of times to do so by a lot of Wall Street-type players, but I, frankly, never understood some of this stuff.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Business
  • Never
  • Wall

• My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.

  

  Zach Roerig
  • Up
  • Family
  • Business

• In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • America
  • Latin
  • Even

• I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.

  

  Carla Hall
  • People
  • Mind
  • Creativity

• A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Together
  • Nature
  • Understanding

• I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Done
  • Feeling
  • Often

• The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • Time
  • Women
  • Chance

• It's up to comedians to shine the light on what's wrong in the world, and we don't want things swept under the rug.

  

  Jeff Ross
  • Up
  • World
  • Light

• And when we are writing the life of a woman, we may, it is agreed, waive our demand for action, and substitute love instead. Love, the poet has said, is a woman's whole existence.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Writing
  • Action
  • Existence

• A lot of the people in history who I really admire lived before the hyperinformation age we're living in. Even if they were governing or solving problems in consequential periods, like the Civil War or the world wars or the Great Depression or the Cold War, they had a period of time and space to actually think, to be private and you read their biographies, and they had time to think about what was happening and how to respond. I don't think human nature has changed in the last 50-150 years, but the stresses, the demands on those of us in public life have just exploded.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • History
  • Civil War

• In a bull market, one must avoid the error of the preening duck that quacks boastfully after a torrential rainstorm, thinking that its paddling skills have caused it to rise in the world. A right-thinking duck would instead compare its position after the downpour to that of the other ducks on the pond.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • World
  • Thinking

• I`m an old duck hunter. I like to go hunting where the ducks are. We`re looking for votes. I think maybe poaching some of those soft Donald Trump Republican votes would be the place to go.

  

  William Weld
  • Thinking
  • Vote
  • Republican