Andy Irons Quotes

On my waves I just did as many turns as I could and it paid off.

Andy Irons

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• This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I'm speaking as a border state.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Reality
  • Immigration
  • Trail

• I have a fat head – I get freaked-out looking at pictures of me.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Me
  • Looking
  • Pictures

• To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Thinking

• If you love our country you are national, and if you love our people you are a socialist.

  

  Oswald Mosley
  • People
  • Country

• Nefertiti is like Athena born from the brow of Zeus, a head-heavy armored goddess. She is beautiful but desexed.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • She
  • Beautiful
  • Goddess

• The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Present

• It’s like this: if you have one piece of cake, and you eat it, that’s fine. If you have two pieces of cake, you should probably share some with a friend. But maybe not. Occasionally we could all use two pieces of cake. But if you have a whole cake, and you eat *all* of it, that’s not very cool. It’s not just selfish, it’s kinda sick and unhealthy.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Friend
  • Cool
  • Sick

• Youth, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Period
  • Honor

• I love these sort of documentaries, which you might turn on late on a Saturday night - like, say, 'The Alma Cogan Story.' But they are ripe for spoofing, because the presenters are always so serious and anxious to make themselves look like rather attractive and interesting people.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • People
  • Night
  • Interesting

• A historic defeat cannot bow our heads forever.

  

  Neymar
  • Forever

• Healing is a moral thing to do.

  

  Jay Inslee
  • Moral
  • Healing

• There would really be no reason to get up in the morning if Founders Fund was not willing to invest in companies that were doing important things, great businesses that very few people believe in.

  

  Luke Nosek
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• The best people I know have had a lot of obstacles to overcome.

  

  Jayne Meadows
  • People
  • Obstacles

• The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.

  

  Dean Acheson
  • Important
  • Relationship

• I did a lot of choral music in high school, and that was kind of my primary, stable outlet for music because I didn't feel comfortable being a soloist. It was a cool, safe space for me musically.

  

  Arthur Ashin
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he's strapped to the chair with vertical seat belts, unable to eject.

  

  James Wolcott
  • Live
  • King
  • Purple

• Success can be a very difficult thing to deal with.

  

  Christian Slater
  • Success

• I train a lot of people on the side as a personal trainer, but I still work out myself to keep in great shape.

  

  Lou Ferrigno
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too; yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Change
  • Woman
  • Shoes

• Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Life
  • Forever
  • inspirational

• Sometimes I think that the one thing I love most about being an adult is the right to buy candy whenever and wherever I want.

  

  Ryan Gosling
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Sometimes

• When I was young, I had an 'aha' moment in church. There was a thing called testimony service, and somebody would sing a song, and everyone else would join in, finding a note where they fit. During one of those, a light went on in my head. In that moment, I heard everything - Parliament, the Staple Singers, Curtis Mayfield, Prince - in there.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Song
  • Light
  • Church

• All three of the great waves of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European immigrants to America innovated.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Great
  • America
  • Waves

• On my waves I just did as many turns as I could and it paid off.

  

  Andy Irons
  • Waves
  • Turns
  • Paid Off