Lamar Alexander Quotes
There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq, wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters of that are.
Quotes to Explore
-
Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.
-
Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
-
We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
-
I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
-
My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
-
Paul Rudd is too perfect. He's super talented, super nice and super calm. I just think he's a robot.
-
As a child, I wanted to go into advertising. I had a love affair with the advertising industry.
-
There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
-
We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
-
I'm a real girly-girl.
-
One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
-
It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.
-
Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
-
Israel's master strategy needs to be moving toward a regional arrangement that will enable a full normalization of relations with the Arab states and the establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.
-
My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.
-
I remember being about eight and watching 'Pollyanna' with Hayley Mills. I looked at my mum and said, 'Mum, I want to be Pollyanna.' She said, 'You're going to have to make yourself cry if you want to be an actress.' So I turned my head away, and when I turned it back I was in floods of tears.
-
I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.
-
One of the things I love about jazz music is that intent is first and execution is second. In classical music, execution is first and intent is second, meaning that you must first learn a piece before you can truly add your interpretation to it.
-
There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.
-
I want to try and wear as many Australian designers as I can because I'd like to support my Australian colleagues in the industry as well as find things that are eco-friendly. I love the green concept of wearing more sustainable garments at events.
-
Who doesn't love a makeover? Even my husband watches 'What Not To Wear.'
-
If you only hear one side of the story, at some point, you have to question who the writer is.
-
America should be leading the world in green and clean solutions, and human rights. We shouldn't be leading the world in wars and incarceration rates and pollution. We can be a better country. I think we're going to be a better country.
-
There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq, wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters of that are.
