Rand Paul Quotes
Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don't agree that, absent Western occupation, that radical Islam 'goes quietly into that good night.'
Quotes to Explore
-
I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
-
I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
-
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
-
Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
-
I kinda wanted to play receiver more.
-
When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
-
Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
-
In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
-
Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
-
When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
-
With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.
-
The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.
-
Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
-
Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
-
Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.
-
In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
-
It's very special having a new little girl.
-
The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.
-
The fact that nobody asks you to sing is not an indication that you should sing louder. This sounds obvious until it's applied to matters like mass transportation. There are virtually no private mass transit companies. This does not represent the failure of the market to provide a needed service, it represents the failure of an unneeded service to go away!
-
I record stuff all the time, like little vocal things. I write random things down... Sometimes I just get things stuck in my head and I record them, and that actually becomes a song quite a lot of the time.
-
English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends.
-
I think that the fact that a relationship becomes public is a bit of a bummer. Because it can distract from the real reason why you're together, which is that you just like each other.
-
There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
-
Some Libertarians argue that Western occupation fans the flames of radical Islam; I agree. But I don't agree that, absent Western occupation, that radical Islam 'goes quietly into that good night.'
