Bill Whittle Quotes

Liberals want Conservatives to shut up. Conservatives want Liberals to keep talking. Because our arguments make sense and theirs don't.

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• I'm not into replicating old movies. But one should never say never. Tomorrow I may feel like making a part 2 of some of my movies.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • May
  • Movies
  • Old

• You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Character
  • Guy
  • You

• I am definitely a spiritually centered person and that is usually one of my biggest guiding lights beyond music.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • Music
  • Person
  • Spiritually

• We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, it's in our blood to drink coffee and talk politics.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Up
  • Family
  • Growing

• If you’re famous, I don’t — for the life of me — I don’t understand why any famous person would ever be on Twitter. Why on God’s green earth would you be on Twitter? Because first of all, the worst thing you can do is make yourself more available, right?

  

  George Clooney
  • Earth
  • Persons
  • Green

• Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the greatest offices, such as those of kings and generals, should be bought. The law which allows this abuse makes wealth of more account than virtue, and the whole state becomes avaricious.

  

  Aristotle
  • Law
  • Virtue
  • Wealth

• Return to a simpler life, and you will see that behind the expensive cars, the fashionable clothes, the empty celebrities, the fancy houses and the thick layers of make-up life has real meaning. Behind all the lies there is a deep well of wisdom that we can all drink from, and grow wiser, healthier and happier.

  

  Varg Vikernes Burzum
  • Life
  • Clothes
  • Cars

• There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Life
  • Emptiness

• Some philosophical arguments (e.g., in connection with the mind/body problem) look pretty good, while others (e.g., those that criticize moral realism) do not.

  

  Elliott Sober
  • Problem
  • Philosophical
  • Connections

• Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.

  

  Sidney Hook
  • Answer
  • Opponent
  • Arguments

• We all go through stages. Concerns about appearances, making good impressions, being popular, comparing yourself to others, having unbridled ambition, wanting to make money, striving to be recognized and noticed and trying to establish yourself, all fade as your responsibilities and character grow.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Responsibility

• Liberals want Conservatives to shut up. Conservatives want Liberals to keep talking. Because our arguments make sense and theirs don't.

  

  Bill Whittle
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  • Liberals
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