Eric Greitens Quotes

My parents were both Democrats and I grew up as a Democrat. Basically I was told that the Democrats were the party that cared about people. I liked people and I cared about them, so I was a Democrat.

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• I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Movie
  • Never
  • Sing

• In grownups, mercury can cause memory loss, tremors, vision loss and numbness of the fingers and toes. It can also adversely affect fertility and blood pressure regulation, and a growing body of evidence suggests that exposure to mercury may lead to heart disease.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Heart
  • May
  • Growing

• I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Think
  • You
  • Ice

• Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Long
  • Problems
  • Ignore

• I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Smart
  • Write
  • Own

• I want to show people there's not just one way of being Muslim.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Want
  • Way

• I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Positive
  • Optimistic

• No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Up
  • Change
  • Stand

• I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Live
  • Trying

• With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Place
  • Start
  • Expectations

• If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • God
  • English
  • Arabic

• In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Order
  • Questions
  • Answers

• I'm childish and silly. Most people tease me because I'm a bit daft.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • People
  • Silly
  • Childish

• The great thing about journalism is that there is so much exposure to all kinds of people who can turn up later as characters, whether you intend it or not.

  

  Tananarive Due
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Up
  • Good
  • Family

• Science trumps magical thinking: there was a reason the Incas called their mercury mine 'la mina de los muertos,' the mine of the dead. Building a life and a community upon principles that ignore such realities is doomed to fail.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Science

• Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Political
  • Past
  • Eyes

• The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Teacher
  • Down
  • Task

• My husband, after two weeks of dating, asked me, if our relationship were to work out, would I be OK with our first boy being named Ace.

  

  Jennie Finch
  • Work
  • Relationship
  • Boy

• However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.

  

  John Calvin
  • God
  • Thoughts
  • Wishes

• The golden rule is work fast. As for framing, composition, focus-this is no time to start asking yourself questions: you just have to trust your intuition and the sharpness of your reflexes.

  

  Jacques-Henri Lartigue
  • Time
  • Work
  • Focus

• ‘Suppose your Aunt Dahlia read in the paper one morning that you were going to be shot at sunrise.’‘I couldn’t be, I’m never up so early.’

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Aunt

• I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job being a parent, and as it turns out, being young really helps you keep up.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Job
  • Parents

• My parents were both Democrats and I grew up as a Democrat. Basically I was told that the Democrats were the party that cared about people. I liked people and I cared about them, so I was a Democrat.

  

  Eric Greitens
  • Parents
  • Democrats
  • Cared