Lamar Alexander Quotes

Primarily, we need to change 100 years of thinking, where we try to extend the promise of American life by moving things to Washington, and let's move it the other way: less of Washington, more from ourselves.

Lamar Alexander

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• Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

  

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• Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.

  

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• It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.

  

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• I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.

  

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• As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.

  

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• I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.

  

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• I would like to do a period piece. I think that would be fun.

  

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• While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.

  

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• My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.

  

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• I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.

  

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• If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.

  

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• I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.

  

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• I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.

  

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• I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.

  

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• I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.

  

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• When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.

  

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• Warp speed developments in technology - automation, artificial intelligence, and the arrival of the sharing economy - are transforming how we work. Beyond technology, traditional working patterns are also being disrupted by changes in society, organizations and workforce management, leading to the rise of a more independent and dispersed workforce.

  

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• A pocket square must always - always - be white and a bit wild. If it is too prepared, it is tacky.

  

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• A woman's manly side is what's sexy--a woman standing strongly, fighting to be desired.

  

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• As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't change my desire to entertain folks. That's really who I am.

  

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• Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.

  

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• Primarily, we need to change 100 years of thinking, where we try to extend the promise of American life by moving things to Washington, and let's move it the other way: less of Washington, more from ourselves.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • American