Harrison Salisbury Quotes
I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier.
Quotes to Explore
-
The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
-
Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
-
I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
-
Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
-
I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
-
There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
-
What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
-
I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
-
I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
-
I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
-
I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
-
When I was a kid, of course I wanted to be the fastest, the loudest and the one with the biggest drum set, but obviously my aspirations have changed a bit since then.
-
I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
-
Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
-
Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
-
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
-
The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
-
You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
-
Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
-
I always rib people, but nobody ever gives me a hard time. I don't know why. Maybe they're afraid of what I might say. There's probably a lesson in that somewhere, but I don't know what it is.
-
When individuals become angry with one another, an injury of some sort will likely occur. When governments become angry, entire civilisations are wiped out.
-
Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal.
-
I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier.
