Rick Perlstein Quotes
There's no question that Kennedy was an utter failure as a passer of laws during his proverbial thousand days.
Quotes to Explore
-
We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
-
I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
-
I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
-
Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
-
America did not invade Iraq because Iraqis are Muslims. Oil, money, economic interests. Who knows? But it was not because Iraqis are Muslims.
-
Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe and impressiveness corresponding to what the reader should feel. A casual style ruins any serious fantasy.
-
I can tell you that Rey is an incredibly brave young woman who starts off alone and encounters Finn, and they go on an amazing adventure, and she makes relationships she never could have imagined, and she sees things she never could have imagined.
-
My wife and I volunteer for the Guide Dog Foundation, and we have two giant labs.
-
Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.
-
The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.
-
I had to push exposition through dialogue, which is really, really hard for an actor do.
-
The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity.
-
You fall for who the chemistry is with.
-
I quit 'Qubool Hai' at the right time. When 'Alone' was offered to me, I was learning production and direction. I don't think not being seen on TV for more than a year will affect my popularity or 'Alone.'
-
I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.
-
I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.
-
You want to arrest the clocks, stop everything for half a second, give yourself a chance to do it over again, rewind the life, uncrash the car, run it backward, have her lift miraculously back into the windshield, unshatter the glass, go about your day untouched, some old, lost sweet-tasting time.But there it was again, the girl's spreading bloodstain.
-
Republicans believe that problems are best solved at the level closest to the people and that the nation's strength comes from the diversity of its people, not from an all-powerful central government.
-
If you were to do it again, you'd probably do some things differently. But the decision is right to have a single entity manage the water and the waste water for a country.
-
The Old Vegas is gone. It's not that it's necessarily better or worse; it's just totally different.
-
. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.
-
One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.
-
There's no question that Kennedy was an utter failure as a passer of laws during his proverbial thousand days.
