Nora Volkow Quotes

When you hunt animals, you may succeed or not. But when you open the fridge, you will succeed 100 percent of the time.

Nora Volkow

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• There is sometimes a tendency to assume that everyone in this great country has adequate housing. But when you go to certain places, certain neighborhoods, both urban and rural, you find out that's not the case, and I think we have to do much more.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Great
  • Country
  • Think

• Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • You
  • Better
  • See

• We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • People
  • Want
  • Underestimate

• If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • People
  • Know
  • Story

• How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Game
  • You
  • Yesterday

• Republicans think that the NAACP is the only voice in the black community. It is a voice in the black community. But it's not the only voice.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Black
  • Community
  • Voice

• In fiction, there happens to be a long history of creative engagement with marginality, with the very human components of society that others don't want to think about, from writers such as Dostoyevsky, Baudelaire, and Rimbaud to Genet and Sarrazin and right on up to Norman Mailer.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Up
  • Long
  • History

• I had a diary full of lyrics and whatnot and a little voice recorder of guitar riffs.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Voice
  • Guitar
  • Lyrics

• I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Writing
  • Doing
  • Same

• I do pop, so pop is very broad. It could be anything from the Weeknd to Taylor Swift to Beyonce to whatever is on the radio, basically.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Very
  • Radio
  • Whatever

• My only thought about Margaret Thatcher is the same one I had about Ronald Reagan. I hated a lot of what they did, but once in a while a country just needs a change.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Country
  • Change
  • Thought

• Of course I love the action. I absolutely love doing action movies; it's what makes me tick, but I think my dream role is a movie that Will Smith's company has called 'Paper Wings.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Dream

• I will come back to India - so deal with it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Will
  • Back
  • India

• In 2005, I visited my home state of Texas, spending time on a ranch outside the town of Post. Then spending some time on a large ranch outside Archer City. I was taken by just how few young people I saw anywhere.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Time
  • Home

• I believe in one thing-that only a life lived for others is a life worth living.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Worth

• I was lucky that when Lorne Michaels came looking for women comedy writers, there weren't too many in New York at the time. I was at the top of a very short list. I think that was all good fortune.

  

  Anne Beatts
  • Time
  • Good
  • Women

• Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Giving
  • Irish
  • Ireland

• They pointed out that the friendship between the two artists had always been a byword or whatever you called it. A well-read Egg summed it up by saying that they were like Thingummy and what's-his-name.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Up
  • Friendship

• My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to change my desires rather than the order of the world, and generally to accustom myself to believing that there is nothing entirely in our power except our thoughts, so that after we have done our best regarding things external to us, everything in which we do not succeed is for us absolutely impossible.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Power
  • Change
  • Thoughts

• Then I’ll have to succeed three times as hard as they want me to fail. You, of all people, should understand that.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Want
  • Hard
  • Succeed

• Talks have reached a critical stage and negotiators need to reach a deal on agriculture in the next two weeks if efforts to restart the Doha round by the end of the year are to succeed. Some speak of a deadlock in the talks, .. I prefer to talk of a padlock, and the key is in the hands of the EU.

  

  Celso Amorim
  • Effort
  • Speak
  • Week

• What the Paris agreement now does is say to China and India and other countries that are potentially polluting, come on board. Let's work together so you guys do the same thing.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Together
  • Paris

• When you hunt animals, you may succeed or not. But when you open the fridge, you will succeed 100 percent of the time.

  

  Nora Volkow
  • Succeed
  • Hunt
  • Fridge