George V. Higgins Quotes

Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

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• In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Support
  • Kind
  • Research

• When I give a lot of speeches, they're always on the fly. I mean, I know what I'm going to say roughly, but I do not - will not read.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • Know
  • Always
  • Fly

• Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Different
  • Team
  • Kind

• Look, there ought to be politics in politics.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Politics
  • Look
  • Ought

• More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Me
  • Wish
  • Manager

• Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Man
  • Belief
  • Equality

• I apologize profusely to those I have offended deeply a million times over.

  

  Vanity
  • Over
  • Million
  • Offended

• My daughter's still so tiny at the moment; she's just a sweet little meaty thing. But of course, you always think about what you want for them, don't you, and like any parent I want my children to be happy more than anything.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Children
  • She
  • Happy

• A lot of these people were getting to where they didn't need help anymore. You have to start all over again.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • People
  • Help
  • Start

• Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Man
  • Being
  • Silly

• Los Angeles is the only place that I can honestly say I have ever called home.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Home
  • I Can
  • Los Angeles

• When you're competitive, the last thing you want to do is come out of a game, regardless of what kind of injury it is - whether it's an ankle, a knee, a rib, or a head injury.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Game
  • Want
  • Kind

• I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Up
  • Myself
  • End

• Pain is never permanent.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Pain
  • Never
  • Permanent

• There seems little doubt in my mind that depression, in particular at the severe end of the experience of this condition, is as real a disorder as diabetes is at the severe end of blood glucose levels.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Experience

• Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • College
  • Stupidity
  • Sent

• In order to defend the Chinese race, one must first defend the Confucian culture; and in order to defend the Confucian culture, one must first defend the State. This is because what preserves the race relies upon intelligence, which is in turn nurtured by Confucian education.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Culture
  • Education
  • Chinese

• The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

  

  Idries Shah
  • People
  • Choice
  • Word

• Thanks to the competence, love of God, our country's security and stability, endowed wealth, integrated infrastructure and quality services, the U.A.E. turned into the world's renowned destination for tourism, investment and business management: the interface of choice for hosting major cultural events, artistic and sports, in the world.

  

  Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
  • Choice
  • Artistic
  • Destination

• Without Bates, they didn't have the penetration they usually get.

  

  Bob Thomason
  • Penetration

• I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Money
  • Free
  • Model

• Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Actor
  • Show
  • Coach

• Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

  

  George V. Higgins
  • Politics
  • Choice
  • Enemas