David Stockman Quotes
I'm just not going to spend a lot of political capital solving some other guy's problem in 2010.
Quotes to Explore
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
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The issues that we face as a country and in South Florida aren't broken down by city line or county line.
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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.
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There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important.
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I don't know where my fashion sense comes from, exactly. I've always been interested in, not necessarily being unique, but not necessarily sticking to the preexisting paradigm - whether it be clothes or music or whatever.
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Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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All are my friends. I have no enemies.
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Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.
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I like doing very high action things. Running, boxing, a lot of free weights. They're not heavy. I eat what I want, really, because I think that while you're working out you can eat better.
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'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.
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Working on 'Outlander' has been a delight, it really has. I had kind of forgotten what Scotland was like, and I'd turned into a bit of a Londoner.
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The heart is the best reflective thinker.
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Here's the thing about Apple technology: once you own a piece, you want to use it.
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There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.
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When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie.
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I cannot pretend to throw the least light on such abstruse problems. The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an Agnostic.
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The Sichuan disaster is not the first nor the most wrongful. But all the details of this tragedy will be forgotten, and once again it will be like nothing ever happened. Eventually all these disasters will together create a bizarre miracle called civilization and evolution.
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If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.
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I'm just not going to spend a lot of political capital solving some other guy's problem in 2010.
