David Barton Quotes

The Founders intended only to prevent the establishment of a single national denomination, not to restrain public religious expressions.

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• I write in a small office at home.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Home
  • Small
  • Office

• I've had a lot of seedy side jobs. I've done it all. I've worked retail at the mall, just tons of side jobs, which I think are amazing for actors. I think everyone should have one! It helps you get more experiences, and the more experiences you have, the more you can channel into a character.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Done
  • Character
  • Think

• It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Why
  • Funny
  • Hate

• To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Way
  • Afghanistan
  • Camel

• I was not really as good as I should have been.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Good
  • Should
  • Been

• Technology is one of the key drivers of female economic empowerment, but the fields that women choose to participate in are still decidedly gendered.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Women
  • Technology
  • Choose

• San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

  

  Jack London
  • Memories
  • Nothing
  • Gone

• It wasn't just OK to achieve in my family - it was expected.

  

  Tananarive Due
  • Family
  • Achieve
  • Just

• Maluma comes from my mom, my dad and my sister's names. The first letters of my mom's name are Ma, my dad's is Lu, and my sister's is Ma.

  

  Maluma
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Sister

• News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all.

  

  Gay Talese
  • News
  • Impact
  • Well

• There have never been so many women in the music industry, but they're doing ballads and pop. Where's the new Joan Jetts and the Wanda Jacksons and the Debbie Harrys, all these strong women? I wanna be the woman that rocks.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • Women
  • Strong

• There's gonna be a lot of great songs, but there ain't going to be another 'Trap Queen.'

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Great
  • Queen
  • Trap

• Necessity is the theme and the inventress, the eternal curb and law of nature.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Nature
  • Law

• What a good session musician does is listen to the song, to the artist, and to the other players. That way you can help bring out the song and help the artist express what they want to express. It's never about you stepping out and showing you can play something fancy.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Good
  • Help
  • Song

• The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and disarmament second.

  

  Ludwig Quidde
  • Great
  • Peace
  • Relationship

• It is one thing to see your friend dance around a table when she's 25, quite another thing to see her doing it when she's 62.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • She
  • Friend
  • Dance

• Regional interest rate differentials persisted until around the time of World War I and helped shape the attitudes of Americans living in western areas toward the nation's financial system.

  

  Jerome Powell
  • Time
  • World
  • War

• I have a statue of Superman. It's actually a big one... It's a collectible statue of Superman, which the DC guys very kindly gave to me. So that's a little prized possession of mine.

  

  Matt Ryan
  • Superman

• A fanboy's heart is filled with love, enthusiasm, and insecurity.

  

  Mary H.K. Choi
  • Heart
  • Insecurity

• To a visitor who asked to become his disciple the Master said, 'You may live with me, but don't become my follower.' 'Whom, then, shall I follow?' 'No one. The day you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.'

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Live
  • May
  • Truth

• Three decades into this crisis, let us set our sights on achieving the "three zeros" zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Sight
  • Zero
  • Hiv

• From building a fire one can learn something about artistic composition. If you use only small kindling and large logs, the fire will quickly eat up the small pieces but will not become strong enough to attack the large ones. You must supply a scale of sizes from the smallest to the largest. The human eye also will not make its way into a painting or building unless a continuum of shapes leads from the small to the large, from the large to the small.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Strong
  • Eye
  • Painting

• The way that words mutate reminds me of fashions in music. The word - the note - is a constant. But the setting and chord in which it occurs alters with the mood of a nation from major to minor, from the assertive to the mournful and foreboding.

  

  Neal Ascherson
  • Words
  • Mood
  • Nation

• The Founders intended only to prevent the establishment of a single national denomination, not to restrain public religious expressions.

  

  David Barton
  • Christian
  • Religious
  • Founders