Wayne LaPierre Quotes

I think the president's comfortable with a certain level of violence.

Wayne LaPierre

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• When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.'

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Fight
  • Against

• The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • King
  • Grief
  • Queen

• People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Financial

• We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Students
  • Brown

• I work a lot with my ski sponsor, Head, to develop new technologies.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Work
  • New
  • Head

• 'Halo' I wrote with my grandpa in his nursing home. When I went to visit him, he'd often comment on my halo. But of course, I couldn't see. And he always - he had pictures of Jesus with these beautiful halos. And so I asked him if he'd write a song with me about Jesus' halo.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Home
  • Song
  • Beautiful

• For me, Warhol made so much sense.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Me
  • Made
  • Sense

• I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Better
  • Ground
  • Holding

• I don't want to get burned when I'm cooking. To avoid getting hit when pan-frying, I stand far away and use chopsticks that are almost two feet long. I learned it from my mom, who does the same thing.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Long
  • Mom
  • Same

• Politics is a game of compromise.

  

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee
  • Game

• Only the brave know how to forgive...A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • Nature
  • Brave
  • Coward

• Everyone wants something that'll appeal to, like, 13-year-olds to 18-year-olds. Especially working in television and trying to pitch shows, they're like, 'We definitely want something that a 14-year-old will be, like, super-psyched about.' And I'm like, 'I don't know if my reality is appealing to a 14-year-old.'

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Trying
  • Reality

• Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • People
  • Time

• My life changed because Bruce Springsteen got on a mic in front of me.

  

  Jimmy Iovine
  • Life

• I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.

  

  Desmond Morris
  • Angel

• I find it significant that, even though contemporary philosophy tends towards forms of determinism, in the wider culture people are deeply into naming, shaming and blaming each other. So we haven't lost that sense of conscience.

  

  John Cornwell
  • People
  • Culture
  • Lost

• I met the Coens here a few years ago and they said they liked my work.

  

  David Thewlis
  • Work

• Purple lipstick? Naw, that looks stupid on all girls!

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • Stupid
  • Girls
  • Lipstick

• The poor taxpayer may wipe his shoes on a $3 doormat when he goes home, but not the Navy. It is, damn the cost, full feet ahead on a doormat you would be ashamed to get muddy.

  

  William Proxmire
  • Home
  • Poor
  • Ashamed

• There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Women
  • Truth
  • Violence

• I have learned to cry again and I think perhaps that means I am a human being again. Perhaps that at least. A piece of human being but, yes, a human being.

  

  William Styron
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Sadness

• I think there is a commitment on the part of the White House to racial justice in this country, and no ambiguity.

  

  Richard Lugar
  • Thinking
  • Commitment
  • Racial

• I think the president's comfortable with a certain level of violence.

  

  Wayne LaPierre
  • Thinking
  • Violence
  • President