Barbara Jordan Quotes

In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.

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• People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • People
  • Willing
  • Wiser

• I'm pretty much friendly and compassionate to everybody. But not to people in the ring.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Friendly

• If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Fight

• I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I attended the Republican National Convention in Miami. You can really tell that he is willing to go out of his way to help the American people.

  

  Laraine Day
  • People
  • Great
  • American

• I grew up in the hood, and I was raised to hate cops. But then, I started to realize that they're people, and they have lives, too.

  

  Manny Montana
  • People
  • Up
  • Hate

• Some people really like to get into Twitter, but it's not my thing.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Twitter
  • Some People

• Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Diversity
  • Fantasy
  • Genre

• We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us - a shared love of liberty, and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Movement
  • Potential

• Everyone at a party is uncomfortable. Knowing that makes me more comfortable.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Me
  • Party
  • Everyone

• We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Today
  • Innovation

• I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Business
  • Friend

• In general, if signs of sectarianism do appear in a Socialist Party, these are only the products of the absence of a broad Labour movement in the country.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Country
  • Party
  • Movement

• To me, it's weird when people review improv at all.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • People
  • Weird
  • Improv

• The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Today
  • Eyes

• Everybody knows what I represent. My message is that Israel wants peace, and I am going to do everything possible to find ways to get this peace, this objective of all our people. All of us want peace. The differences are about the conditions of this peace.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • People
  • Peace
  • Israel

• Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Value
  • Successful

• Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow.

  

  Orrin Hatch
  • Today
  • Hand
  • Government

• I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.

  

  Yael Naim
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• The way you dress or the car you drive or what you spend is to impress other people with how, I guess, successful and rich you are. But you're not, and you shouldn't, and who gives a damn what other people think anyway. So, that mentality, I think, is very destructive.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Car
  • Successful

• I just think it is so delightful to see people, let their elbows free. I think the exuberance of it all is really exciting to me. It's a signal of the abundance of diversity and creative expression.

  

  William McDonough
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Creative

• Honesty is such a nasty habit, dear. Like biting your nails.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Habit
  • Honesty
  • Nasty

• I'm a staunch believer in enterprise, and I'm glad I live in a country where - I don't think some people understand this, but if I work hard, I get rewarded for it.

  

  Lewis Grizzard
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.

  

  J. Carter Brown
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Arts

• In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Today
  • Party