Lamar Alexander Quotes

When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.

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• Funny is an attitude.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Funny
  • Attitude

• There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Me

• There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

  

  Maggie Kuhn
  • Life
  • Goal
  • Stage

• Access to capital is critical for small business success and crucial to our economic recovery. Without access to capital, many small companies are not able to maintain operations, let alone expand and create new jobs.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Success
  • Small

• In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

  

  R. A. Butler
  • Running
  • Rest
  • Politics

• I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Up
  • Women
  • Thought

• There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Thinking
  • Democracy
  • Idea

• When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.

  

  Kajol
  • Life
  • Time
  • Book

• Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Man
  • Myself
  • Young

• No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • History
  • Freedom
  • Beginning

• It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

  

  Fletcher Knebel
  • Doubt
  • Smoking
  • Statistics

• An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.

  

  Carl Van Vechten
  • Will
  • Questions
  • Ordinary

• Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Goal
  • Gift
  • Adulthood

• No man may make another free.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • May
  • Man
  • Free

• Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Me
  • Acting
  • Very

• Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Reality

• At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • Chance
  • Design

• I'm always striving to lose weight. And it's not a matter of wanting to be a size 3 again - I brought out my leotards, and a friend thought they were doll clothes. Being heavy isn't good for you. How long can your heart take the strain? So, I never give up, but it's hard.

  

  Liz Torres
  • Up
  • Good
  • Long

• Statistically, Portland, Oregon has the most street kids, like kids that run away from home and live on the street. It's like a whole culture thing there. If you walk around on the streets, there are kids living on the streets, begging for money, but it's almost like a cool thing. They all just sit around and play music and squat.

  

  Laura Ramsey
  • Music
  • Live
  • Money

• When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Music
  • Way
  • Looking