Rick Bass Quotes

To not pursue the thing one wants would be a waste of one's life.

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• Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Parents
  • Hand
  • Feel

• Those who really value Ukrainian sovereignty should opt for real independence and a positive neutrality: neither a plaything of the West nor Moscow.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Real
  • Value
  • Positive

• Of course, no one wants to ban the vote. Voting should remain available for sporting and recreational purposes. But certain types of votes clearly should be curtailed - 'assault votes,' for example, in which the only purpose of the vote is to harm others.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Purpose
  • Vote
  • Voting

• Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Live
  • Identity
  • Performance

• I have much greater faith in the governor and the state legislature to craft a Medicaid system that is going to be the best fit for the people of Georgia rather than someone in Washington dictating it.

  

  Karen Handel
  • People
  • Faith
  • Best

• The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin.

  

  Ralph Chaplin
  • Work
  • Men
  • Reason

• Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Better
  • Now
  • Vietnam

• The longer you are in a place, the more you get under its layers.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • You
  • Place
  • Layers

• Cinema has become a global economy, totally international.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Become
  • Cinema
  • Global

• I did Broadway shows. And I started realizing that this is actually how I'm going to make my living. So maybe I should try to do television and film and make a better living and get an occasional residual check so I can pay a mortgage someday.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Better
  • Television
  • Try

• Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Family
  • Success
  • Pressure

• Senator McCain is Israel's most unconditional ally in Mossad's machinations, something that even his worst adversaries would have been able to imagine. McCain participated alongside this secret service in the creation of the Islamic State, which has appropriated a considerable part of Iraq as well as a third of Syria, according to its affirmations.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Service
  • Creation
  • Worst

• Me, Shinsuke Nakamura, and Lyoto Machida, former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, all shared a two-bedroom apartment together.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Together
  • Light
  • Champion

• Tourism is our second biggest industry in terms of the people it employs.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • People
  • Industry
  • Tourism

• Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • World
  • Great
  • Technology

• Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Feel

• I personally have not spoken to Marvel and have no plans to do a movie in the immediate future because, number one, I'm tied up with 'Somnia,' which is a fantastic place to be. It's exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Future

• It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight years, booking agents don't know if you'll draw.

  

  Tina Weymouth
  • World
  • Draws
  • Agents

• I'm not white, I don't apologize for what my country did to become great

  

  Carlos Mencia
  • Country
  • White
  • Apologizing

• As early as I can remember, I would put on plays with my cousin and make my dad record them. In kindergarten, I started doing the school plays, and it just continued.

  

  Mikaela Hoover
  • Remember
  • Would
  • Continue

• The most degrading of human passions is the fear of death. It tears away the restraints and the conventions which alone make social life possible to man; it reveals the brute in him which underlies them all. In the desperate hand-to-hand struggle for life there is no element of nobility. He who is engaged upon it throws aside honor, he throws aside self-respect, he throws aside all that would make victory worth having - he asks for nothing but bare life.

  

  Gertrude Bell
  • Death
  • Respect
  • Passion

• I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Home
  • Think
  • Democracy

• To not pursue the thing one wants would be a waste of one's life.

  

  Rick Bass
  • Would
  • Pursue