William Galston Quotes

When you win an election, you are always inclined to believe you won for the reasons you wanted to win.

William Galston

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• If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die, rather it manifests in the form of compassion. That is universal love. It is not just a sentiment. It cannot be manifested merely by a shift in mental disposition. It can only come from inner cleaning, an inner awakening.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • God
  • Love
  • Hate

• There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.'

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • Man
  • Television
  • Cinema

• Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Women
  • Know
  • Romantic

• I want to show people there's not just one way of being Muslim.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Want
  • Way

• I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • People
  • Believe
  • Gay

• I had great stats in my career, you know, but really, you want to win.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Great
  • Want
  • Career

• There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Great
  • Worst
  • Relief

• I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Change
  • Accept
  • Willing

• Mr. Idris Elba is amazing! He happens to be British, but what's funny about him is that when he's speaking in his American dialect, he looks like he's a brother from the 'hood. But as soon as he brings out that English thing, I'm like, 'Woo! You look like you're from London. Oh my God!' It's like everything on him changes. He's so cool!

  

  Tasha Smith
  • God
  • American
  • Funny

• The American people have a right to know the source of the money that is being spent. They should be told who is behind the millions of dollars in campaign ads, and they should receive this information before they vote.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • People
  • Money
  • American

• 'Entourage' was a show that existed around wish-fulfillment. People watched it because they wanted to believe they could go on private jets and be hanging out in Hollywood, but as a show, comedically, it was not funny. Not a funny show. It's funny, ironically, because of how terrible it is.

  

  Adam Pally
  • People
  • Believe
  • Funny

• It's rare to find women who have that balance between work and life, who are really psyched for another woman's success.

  

  Dana Fox
  • Life
  • Work
  • Women

• Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • May
  • Always
  • Promise

• Our experiences of the Solstice depends entirely upon where we are when it occurs. Neither Solstice encompasses everyone. Neither can. The Solstices stand forever opposed, literally at the two poles of our Earth and experiences.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Earth
  • Forever
  • Stand

• When I exercise, I need to connect to myself and see how I'm feeling at the moment because my mood is constantly changing.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Feeling
  • Myself
  • Exercise

• It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Writing
  • Health
  • Learning

• I'm a pretty cliche actor in that I hate watching myself on film.

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • Pretty
  • Hate
  • Myself

• I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Love
  • Friends
  • Fall

• Mother considered a press conference on a par with a visit to a cage of cobras.

  

  Margaret Truman
  • Mother

• I studied arranging and orchestration a number of years ago, so I have a home studio and arrange about three-fourths of my songs on the computer. Since writing orchestration is tedious, I often put an arrangement on the keyboard and let someone better-qualified finish it.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell
  • Writing
  • Home

• It's interesting, the things you learn when you're 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you're not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Learn

• Comedians could do mindless things - and by mindless, I mean the easy jokes and things that you already agree with - but I find it more interesting, more of a reward, for people to feel something. I like to make a human connection, and that involves speaking emotionally, a bit more intellectually, or with a bit more moral complexity.

  

  Jerrod Carmichael
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Moral

• When you win an election, you are always inclined to believe you won for the reasons you wanted to win.

  

  William Galston
  • Interesting
  • Reason
  • Wanted