Christopher Pyne Quotes

And I think the Donald Trump phenomenon is a real problem for the United States, making their democracy look kind of weird.

Christopher Pyne

• Democracy
• Weird
• United States
• Donald Trump
• Phenomenon

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• Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Wisdom
  • Democracy
  • Ignorance

• It's definitely weird, because pretty much everybody owns the Tony Hawk videogame. Just going over to people's houses and watching play me as I walk in – that's actually happened a few times and that's so weird. It's like, 'Dude, you're playing me right now.' It was too weird.

  

  Bam Margera
  • People
  • Play
  • Weird

• From my intimate discussions with President Obama, it is evident that India figures significantly in American geo-political, economic and strategic thinking. India is the largest democracy in the world.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Thinking
  • American

• Every kid has a laptop; everyone can make music, so in order to stand out, I think it's important to find that sonic identity, I think my sonic identity - and mine is finding these weird sounds that may not necessarily sound that musical, and make them sound musical.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Important
  • May

• My mom's family is Russian Jewish, and my dad's Puerto Rico Catholic, so it's kind of a weird mix.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • Family
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• It's been real weird. It wasn't how I expected my life to turn out. Especially, mainly pertaining to the show. It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Real

• Arab society features apartheid of women, apartheid of homosexuals, and apartheid of Christians, Jews, and democracy.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Women
  • Society
  • Democracy

• I've been doing acting since I was 6 years old, and I don't know how to do anything besides act and sing. Back in the day, you had to do it all - you had to sing, dance, and act. I'm from the old school where that is what I was trained to do, and that's what I am expected to do, so it's weird when people ask me to choose.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • School
  • Day

• I have taken taking my music to labels for years, and everyone just thought it was creepy. They thought the images with the music were weird and verging on psychotic.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Music
  • Taken
  • Thought

• Democracy, despite its limitations, is in the end the only way to ensure that policies do not simply benefit the privileged few.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Democracy
  • End
  • Limitations

• The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Democracy
  • Beauty
  • Random

• I've spent so much time with iambic pentameter that I can now recognize it when I hear it in conversation or a movie - it's like a weird, useless superpower.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Weird

• 'The Sea Wolf' is the story of a man who believes only in brute force. He is so firm in belief in his own ideas that he despises all who disagree with him. He preaches the doctrine of intolerance. He flaunts the notion that democracy is anything but weakness.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Man
  • Ideas
  • Democracy

• Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • May
  • Stop
  • Democracy

• Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Always
  • Weird
  • Difficult

• I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Knowledge
  • Community
  • Democracy

• The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Democracy
  • Meaning
  • Rights

• The Sandinistas are dedicated Communists, and if they are going to make a compromise with democracy, it's going to be under pressure.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Democracy

• It's very weird waking around a corner and being nose to nose with myself on the side of a bus. And Times Square - that's the craziest one.

  

  Allison Williams
  • Weird

• Words like 'freedom,' 'justice,' 'democracy' are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.

  

  James Baldwin
  • People
  • Words
  • Freedom

• stop spying on the lawful citizenry. Democracy and dossiers go ill together. It is all right for God but all wrong for the State to keep its eye on sparrows.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • God
  • Together
  • Stop

• In the big experiments, Atlas and CMS, we have something like 3,000 scientists each, and over 60 nationalities.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Like
  • Something
  • Big

• And I think the Donald Trump phenomenon is a real problem for the United States, making their democracy look kind of weird.

  

  Christopher Pyne
  • Democracy
  • Weird
  • United States