Rachel Maddow Quotes

A handkerchief can never be put in another pocket after it has been in one pocket. I don't walk under ladders. I have items of clothing that are lucky for me. That rotates, but I am luck-oriented.

Rachel Maddow

• Luck
• Clothing
• Pocket
• Ladders
• Handkerchief

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• I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Win

• The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Art
  • Politics
  • Lies

• NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Hope
  • Law
  • Ocean

• My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra and Barry White.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Hero
  • White
  • Worship

• The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

  

  Sallust
  • Wealth
  • Glory
  • Eternal

• Sometimes I get emotional when I'm doing 'Lonesome Valley' or 'Wildwood Rose.'

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Sometimes
  • Emotional
  • Doing

• All Americans are dependent for their energy on the Arabian peninsula.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Energy
  • Dependent
  • Peninsula

• English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

  

  E. B. White
  • Education
  • Sometimes
  • English

• I think to do a proper independent movie, in my experience, it takes 22 or 23 days to shoot. That was 'Party Girl' or 'House of Yes.' But now with the digital camera, the budgets have gotten smaller, and the days have gotten shorter.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Experience
  • Movie
  • House

• I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Real
  • Friends
  • Know

• You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Family
  • You
  • Yourself

• While conducting a conventional war in Iraq and Syria, ISIS has staged terrorist attacks on a global scale against the people from the countries who are fighting ISIS.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • War
  • Fighting

• You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Up
  • God
  • Career

• I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Lost
  • Winning
  • Tennis

• I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.

  

  Nadine Labaki
  • People
  • Country
  • Language

• I have learned how to better handle things as they come.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • Better
  • I Have Learned

• My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Mom
  • Passionate
  • Taught

• Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Money
  • Desire
  • Trust

• Chickens, cows, and pigs in factory farms spend their whole lives in filthy, cramped conditions, only to die a prolonged and painful death.

  

  Casey Affleck
  • Life
  • Painful
  • Chickens

• Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal.

  

  Marilyn vos Savant
  • High

• Most of us are far too busy for our own spiritual good.

  

  Bill Hybels
  • Good
  • Spiritual

• That's the way it is: you have to show your initiative, you have to show talent and availability, and still have an awful lot of luck.

  

  Joan Leslie
  • Talent
  • Luck
  • Initiative

• A handkerchief can never be put in another pocket after it has been in one pocket. I don't walk under ladders. I have items of clothing that are lucky for me. That rotates, but I am luck-oriented.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Luck
  • Clothing
  • Pocket