Pat Toomey Quotes

I have nothing but contempt for Gadhafi. I'm not a Gadhafi supporter in any way. However, it's not clear to me that it's a vital and compelling national security objective of the United States that we ought to use military force to remove him from power. He's not the only unpleasant and unsavory dictator in the world.

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• When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Music
  • Way
  • Looking

• Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Men
  • Action
  • Move

• I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Time
  • Science
  • Past

• You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Family
  • You
  • Years

• We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Freedom
  • Security
  • Plan

• The simpler I keep things, the better I play.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Play
  • Things
  • Better

• We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Dark

• I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Job
  • Help

• Way back when I was a junior pastry chef, I'd bake loads of muffins every morning, as many as 120 or so, while operating on autopilot.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Way
  • Morning
  • Chef

• I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Human
  • Intellect
  • Conviction

• I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.

  

  Maluma
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Talent

• I moved on from dice baseball to 'MLB: The Show' on PlayStation.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • Baseball
  • Show
  • Dice

• The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.

  

  Immaculee Ilibagiza
  • World
  • Power
  • Forgiveness

• The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Food
  • Brother
  • Childhood

• In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Lost
  • Purpose
  • Practice

• I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Military
  • Find
  • Falling

• This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Die
  • Cancer
  • Said

• There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Human
  • Difficult
  • Easy

• 'Fragile,' of course, was a very successful album for us, especially here in the States. It had a lot of solo pieces on it, though.

  

  Chris Squire Cinema

• A specific editor in a specific place likes the book, and you're in. A different editor on a different day goes, 'Oh, this isn't for me', or doesn't even look at it, and that's it.

  

  Adrian McKinty
  • Different
  • Book

• I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • God
  • Beautiful
  • Control

• I'm not a nice person.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Nice
  • Person
  • Nice Person

• Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Genius
  • Ordinary Man

• I have nothing but contempt for Gadhafi. I'm not a Gadhafi supporter in any way. However, it's not clear to me that it's a vital and compelling national security objective of the United States that we ought to use military force to remove him from power. He's not the only unpleasant and unsavory dictator in the world.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • World
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