Gary Soto Quotes

You can always spot bright people. They are reading a book.

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• The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.

  

  Carl Levin
  • People
  • American
  • Future

• The Soviet Union, the socialist camp, the People's Republic of China, and North Korea helped us resist, with essential supplies and weapons, the implacable blockade of the United States, the most powerful empire ever to exist.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • Powerful
  • China

• Computation, storage, and communications capacity are in the hands of practically every connected person - and these are the basic physical capital means necessary for producing information, knowledge and culture, in the hands of something like 600 million to a billion people around the planet.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • People
  • Culture
  • Knowledge

• I wouldn't swap the era I competed in for anything, not a day of it. I started out as an amateur, and people like myself, Seb Coe, Steve Ovett, Steve Cram, Tessa Sanderson and the rest did it for the glory of winning medals for our country.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Country
  • Day

• I tried to write 'Trainspotting' in standard English, but people weren't talking like that.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Like
  • English

• I'm interested in full disclosure for people who give money to politicians. But I'm not a politician. I'm an advocate.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • People
  • Money
  • Give

• When people from organizations like the World Bank descended on Third World countries, they always tried to remove obstacles to development, to reduce economic anxiety and uncertainty.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • World
  • Anxiety

• Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• That is why we are working with these various groups that have volunteers. We can get a lot of these things done. Nobody has dropped out, and a lot of people would like to join. We now know what each other does.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • People
  • Done
  • Why

• Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.

  

  Laura Marano
  • People
  • World
  • Power

• And history also shows that seemingly ordinary people who are sufficiently resolute about justice can triumph over the most formidable adversaries.

  

  Edward Snowden
  • People
  • History
  • Justice

• You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth.

  

  David Horowitz
  • People

• A lot of people still think caring about clothes is a dubious, unserious, frivolous, girlie thing.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • People
  • Caring

• There are no small churches, just small people.

  

  Edwin Louis Cole
  • People
  • Small

• Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.

  

  Bill Moyers
  • People
  • Ethics

• It's such a thing now, people making fun of other people on the Internet.

  

  Aubrey Plaza
  • People
  • Fun

• Just like every show has a tone, every show has different people on it playing different games. I don't say 'game' in a pejorative sense, I just mean, these are different stories that we tell ourselves when we go to work.

  

  David Duchovny
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• I think that this liberal progressive agenda is not the thing that the American people want and it's antithesis to who we are as a constitutional republic.

  

  Allen West
  • People
  • American

• People like, George Soros, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Paul Krugman, Joe Stiglitz, Jeffrey Sax, Dean Baker, Robert Poland, Larry Summers have said they all support a transaction tax.

  

  Keith Ellison
  • People
  • Support

• Far too many times over the next 12 to 15 years, it was brought to my attention that people who followed my exercise guidelines exactly but ignored their diet, their weight and their cigarette smoking had heart attacks at age 55.

  

  Kenneth H. Cooper
  • People
  • Heart
  • Age

• I try and be a little bit chic. I wouldn't wear sweatpants. I wouldn't wear a twinset.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Try
  • Little
  • Little Bit

• I travel Europe every couple of weeks. I just came back from London, Holland and Denmark. Every nation on this planet has its issues with race, and I am not sure if everyone has figured out how to deal with it.

  

  Montel Williams
  • Couple
  • Travel
  • Europe

• You can always spot bright people. They are reading a book.

  

  Gary Soto
  • People
  • Reading
  • Bright