Lee Atwater Quotes

My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.

Lee Atwater

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• This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • Fear
  • Space
  • Hurt

• What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Ended

• I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.

  

  Ted Danson
  • World
  • Organization
  • Ocean

• The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Business
  • Failure

• You look marvelous!

  

  Fernando Lamas
  • You
  • Look
  • Marvelous

• It's super dope when you connect with something personally.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • You
  • Something
  • Dope

• I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Think
  • Me

• I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.

  

  Tanya Roberts
  • Ugly
  • Reached
  • Puberty

• We think of the Marine Corps as a military outfit, and of course it is, but for me, the U.S. Marine Corps was a four-year crash course in character education. It taught me how to make a bed, how to do laundry, how to wake up early, how to manage my finances. These are things my community didn't teach me.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Up
  • Character
  • Education

• I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • School
  • Friends
  • College

• It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Funny
  • Kind
  • Dark

• Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Communication

• I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • World
  • Buildings
  • Off

• What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• I try to work on my defense every game, every practice.

  

  Oscar Taveras
  • Work
  • Game
  • Practice

• When I wear the hat of management, it is important that our management behaves and conducts as management accountable to the board.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Important
  • Management
  • Hat

• My way of getting the best from people on a set is to notice their work, to make every prop master, every seamstress, part of 'The Newsroom' or 'The West Wing' or 'Steve Jobs.'

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Work
  • Best

• In comparison to other women in the world, perhaps I'm seen as smaller. But I've never had a problem thinking of myself as a large woman.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Women

• The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater good.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Good
  • Military
  • Discipline

• A good designer has technical knowledge - don't treat her like someone who's there to decide whether something should be pink or orange.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • Good
  • Knowledge
  • Pink

• I don't know the vast majority of you personally, and it may sound kind of corny, but I really feel as if we've become friends through the years. And you've been with me during a lot of good times and some very difficult ones. I can't tell you how grateful I am.

  

  Katie Couric
  • Good
  • May
  • Friends

• Hand me the world on a silver platter, and what good would it be?

  

  Alicia Keys
  • World
  • Good
  • Hand

• I'm just focused on exploring new opportunities.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Opportunities
  • Exploring

• My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.

  

  Lee Atwater
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Nature