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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• Running
• Fighting
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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

• 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

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

  

  Denis Diderot
  • God
  • Believe

• 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 that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.

  

  Mark Strand
  • Believe
  • Poetry

• I don't believe in a redistribution of wealth.

  

  Brad Schneider
  • Believe

• I don't know many people who don't have somebody in their family who's a part of the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender community. It's not like they're aliens or outsiders. This is family.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • People
  • Family
  • Community

• When we traded the results of our fantasies, it seemed to us-and rightly-that we had proceeded by unwarranted associations, by shortcuts so extraordinary that, if anyone had accused us of really believing them, we would have been ashamed.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Association

• I will beg, will take to my knees, will listen to snow stroking air, a sky of gasps, will open my mouth, swallow, somewhere else the sky is falling, somewhere else it gets back up.

  

  Bob Hicok
  • Sky
  • Falling
  • Knees

• Once the ISIS threat has been reduced or eliminated, I think we can turn our attention directly to stabilizing the situation in Syria. We're hopeful that we can prevent a continuation of the civil war and that we can bring the parties to the table to begin the process of political discussions.

  

  Rex W. Tillerson
  • Thinking
  • Political
  • Situation

• When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Fear
  • Desire

• 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