Karen Finney Quotes

I think part of running for president, people want to know who you are, what influenced you, what motivates you, not just where you stand on issues but what is in your heart and what were things in your life that led you to believe the things you believe in, and fight for.

Karen Finney

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• I believe very strongly in the value of having a diverse team around me that comes from very different backgrounds and different points of view.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Team

• We use the term 'fight' very lightly - 'I've been fighting so hard to get my car, I've been fighting so hard to get that job, I've been fighting so hard to get that girl.' But the reality is boxers do fight bitterly to get whatever they want or whatever they need in life, and most of them come from nothing, which is the case of Roberto Duran.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Life
  • Job
  • Reality

• Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Art

• I believe a true Hindu in India could never have endorsed the killing of the Mahatma.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Believe
  • True
  • I Believe

• I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • People
  • Believe
  • You

• The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I believe that the Greater Phoenix Area is a terrific sports market; it's a terrific hockey market.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Believe
  • Sports
  • Hockey

• I really believe in the power of music.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Power

• When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Believe
  • Stupid
  • Choice

• I was probably 21 or 22 years old when I realized the prose that I live by, which is, 'You get what you give.' The more good deeds that you could do in your life, the more fulfilling and enriched your life is going to be. I truly believe that.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Life
  • Good
  • Believe

• I believe that Christianity in the United States has been dragging its feet, and I don't think there's any other force in America that has been more detrimental to the solution of our racial problems than Christianity.

  

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
  • Believe
  • America
  • Problems

• I had to work up the courage to even imagine myself running for Congress. But I eventually decided that our country had a moral problem in only letting white men - even the right-minded ones - have a seat at the table.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Up
  • Work
  • Men

• If, for 2,000 years, you dress up differently, believe in a different God, celebrate different holidays, and on top of it insist on telling everyone that you're completely different than them, ultimately they'll believe you.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Up
  • God
  • Believe

• That could certainly be done, but I don't want to fall into the Forth trap, where every running Forth implementation is really a different language.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Different
  • Done
  • Running

• I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here-to love and to serve.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Worry

• Mount Carmel was a very monastic place. We lived in another time - an easier time, a better time. We didn't have running water or most modern conveniences. But in a lot of ways, it was a very satisfying life.

  

  David Thibodeau
  • Life
  • Time
  • Running

• If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • God
  • Believe

• And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office.

  

  Christy Romano
  • Money
  • Running

• People think my family pushed me into running for office. The person who pushed me most not to run for office was my father.

  

  Joe Kennedy III
  • People
  • Family
  • Father

• I believe in my children. I believe in human beings. I believe in the goodness that is in human beings. I believe in many, many things that I cannot prove. I believe that there's the world of the seen and the world of the unseen.

  

  Laurence Fishburne
  • World
  • Believe
  • Children

• The rules in this new 'post-partisan' era are pretty simple: If the Democratic Party wants it, it's 'stimulus.' If the Republican Party opposes it, it's 'politics' - as in headlines like this: 'Obama Urges GOP To Keep Politics To A Minimum On Stimulus.' These are serious times: As the president says, it's the worst economic crisis since the Thirties. So politicians need to put politics behind them and immediately lavish $4.19 billion on his community-organizing pals at the highly inventive 'voter registration' group ACORN for 'neighborhood stabilization activities.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Pretty
  • Community
  • Party

• By deciding to live our lives based on solid values and unwavering truth, we can leave a legacy for the young men and boys who want nothing more than to follow in our footsteps.

  

  Benjamin Watson
  • Men
  • Live
  • Truth

• I think part of running for president, people want to know who you are, what influenced you, what motivates you, not just where you stand on issues but what is in your heart and what were things in your life that led you to believe the things you believe in, and fight for.

  

  Karen Finney
  • Believe
  • Running
  • Fighting