Barbara Jordan Quotes

It was immigration that taught us, it does not matter where you came from, or who your parents were. What counts is who you are.

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• No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe
  • May
  • Man

• I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Boy
  • Delhi
  • Bengali

• Slick marketing, high-tech production values, and a practical message have created a product that plays well to today's fickle churchgoer. Megachurches - defined as congregations with more than 2,000 members - number close to 600 in the United States.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • High
  • Today
  • Values

• I don't think of anyone as a 'groupie.' People who connect with my music are just inspiring and amazing.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Music
  • Amazing

• I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Want
  • Theater
  • Direct

• If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Me

• Look, you need technical skills to run a company.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Look
  • Company
  • Skills

• You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Day
  • End
  • End Of The Day

• World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.

  

  Lane Evans
  • Time
  • World
  • War

• They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Together
  • Help
  • Game

• To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Men
  • Law
  • Government

• When you write songs for your best friends and maybe two other people to hear, and then realize that a million other people are going to hear them, it can be a bit worrying. You get concerned about what you might reveal.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • Friends
  • Best

• I was a complete brat but was an angel with my mother. I used to be perfectly behaved, and my mother used to be like... 'Really, are you badly behaved with other people?' I was like, 'No, not at all.' But the minute she used to leave the room, I was a brat.

  

  Kajol
  • People
  • She
  • Mother

• You lose the speed before the stamina.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • You
  • Lose
  • Speed

• I was a bit overweight as a teenager, which may be why I'm more comfortable playing with clothes than showing my body.

  

  Orla Brady
  • Why
  • May
  • Body

• My Smiths, my Carters, the Cashes - everybody embraced me and held my arms up when I couldn't do it myself.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Up
  • Me
  • Myself

• I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Energy
  • Gift
  • Creator

• Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print.

  

  Irving Penn
  • Perfect
  • Years
  • Hours

• I think I'm actually much too shy to do any performance art. I admire the big swings those guys take, but I'm not a one-man band.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • Art
  • Band

• I have my own label which releases some very nice music, it’s called 99 Times out of 10 Records.

  

  Roger O'Donnell The Cure
  • Music
  • Records
  • Label

• Kids with Down syndrome are, by and large, quite affectionate and relatively guileless, and frequently, the attachments to them grow and deepen. And the meaning that parents find in it grows and deepens.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Parent

• What did I get from Simon? An education - the thing my parents always wanted me to have.

  

  Lynn Barber
  • Parents
  • Education
  • Simon

• Its very sort of spontaneous and organic, not a preconceived sort of jamming. Now we record everything, cause sometimes you'll forget, you know, 'what was that thing again?' So we record everything.

  

  Chad Smith Red Hot Chili Peppers

• It was immigration that taught us, it does not matter where you came from, or who your parents were. What counts is who you are.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Parents
  • Immigration