Tony Snow Quotes

Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.

Tony Snow

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• I have my problems with 'Singles'. To me, 'Singles' is the least successful of the movies I've been lucky enough to make.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Successful
  • Problems
  • Lucky

• Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Happiness

• I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • See
  • Back
  • Superstar

• I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Great
  • Literature

• Anti-Semitism is extremely common.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Common
  • Anti-Semitism

• Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.

  

  Ice T
  • Long
  • New
  • Run

• In Zurich, in a cafe overlooking the Limmat, I ate butter-drenched white asparagus pulled from the ground that morning; it had the aftertaste of champagne. I've been able to appreciate epic meals in San Francisco, New Orleans, Berlin, Paris, Las Vegas.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Morning
  • Paris
  • Appreciate

• Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Career
  • Myself

• At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to this blind, stupid terrorism.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Stupid
  • Blind
  • Terrorism

• My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Good
  • Bread
  • Cheese

• It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!

  

  Fay Wray
  • Great
  • Done
  • Mother

• I majored in Shakespearean studies at a very tiny school in Georgia.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • School
  • Very
  • Georgia

• I think I really produce my best work in Iran.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Work
  • Think
  • Best

• I usually don't say anything to the actors. It works better for me because when they come to the set, they are at the same time scared and excited because they are not well aware of what will happen.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Better
  • Actors
  • Works

• I'm so proud of Maryland's firefighters, risking their lives to protect others, but we need to protect our protectors with the best equipment training and resources.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Proud
  • Best
  • Training

• I don't have time to worry about who I admire or who I identify with.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Time
  • Worry
  • Admire

• Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • See
  • Worth
  • Seeing

• Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Player
  • King
  • Hero

• I have a theory about soul mates – that God wants to be our sweetheart. And once we fall in love with life and have an intimate relationship with Spirit, that's when we meet our soul mate. It's as if God says, 'You're not meant to be alone on this earth. I just wanted you to love me first.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Life
  • God
  • Love

• You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics,' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Time
  • World
  • Rock

• And then I felt sick for believing in spite of myself. You get invested in things—love affairs, politics, con games—and you tie yourself in knots trying to make reality match up to what would make you happiest. The mad part is, what would make you happiest is to get your cope on for what is, rather than what you would rather have happen.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Reality
  • Politics
  • Games

• Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend most all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like. Normal science often suppresses fundamental novelties because they are necessarily subversive of its basic commitments.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • World
  • Community
  • Wisdom

• Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.

  

  Tony Snow
  • Politics
  • Affairs
  • Topography