Alex Pareene Quotes

The Pentagon budget, like all government spending, is an expression of priorities.

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• Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Try
  • Classic
  • Museums

• Rod has such a wicked sense of humour. I loved him very much.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Sense
  • Loved
  • Him

• Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Different
  • Country
  • Real

• I'm a huge fan of e-books, but the more I buy and download, the more I worry that someone could just take them all away from me.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Worry
  • Books
  • Fan

• As a former minority leader who became the first Republican Speaker of the House in Florida since Reconstruction, I know that leadership is not an easy task.

  

  Dan Webster
  • House
  • Leadership
  • Easy

• The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • May
  • Man
  • Wise

• I love music and I love musicians and when I hear something that's great, I always say it's like you go to a movie and you can't wait to tell your friends about it.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Movie

• I hadn't stopped fearing the chance of passing on an illness, but that fear had become balanced by the observation that being ill wasn't the same as being beaten.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Fear
  • Chance
  • Same

• Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Real
  • Happiness
  • Goal

• I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Always
  • Understood
  • Machine

• Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Actor
  • Author
  • Musical

• I don't like actors, I like women.

  

  Carlo Ponti
  • Women
  • Like

• I don't decide my politics based on the flavour of the month.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Politics
  • Decide
  • Month

• I remember, in my first show in New York, they asked, 'Where is the Indian-ness in your work?'... Now, the same people, after having watched the body of my work, say, 'There is too much Indian philosophy in your work.' They're looking for a superficial skin-level Indian-ness, which I'm not about.

  

  A. Balasubramaniam
  • People
  • Work
  • Remember

• When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.

  

  Eddy Arnold
  • Time
  • Country
  • Want

• There are so many problems in the E.U. that several countries are warming up to the idea that after the single currency, a deeper integration could also be created.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Up
  • Single
  • Idea

• 'Quality' means what will sell and do a customer some good - at least try to.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Good
  • Quality
  • Customer

• I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the leaders, that this was intended to be a Christian nation.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Book
  • America
  • Christian

• I didn't get too many people out in that first one here last year.

  

  Bob Wickman
  • People
  • Last Year

• My mother witnessed the martyrdom of her husband, Hajj Malik Shabazz, Malcolm X, on Sunday, February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. My older sisters, Attallah, Qubilah and I were seated with our mother up front and stage right.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Up
  • Mother
  • City

• The Tracy Morgan you see is the Tracy Morgan in real life. He's a great guy but... man, is he a nut.

  

  Kurt Fuller
  • Life
  • Great
  • Real

• The diocesan papers are full of stories about atrocities in China and the sufferings of the Church and I get a letter from Betty Chang from Tientsin about the communes and the full-employment, etc. When we see the migrant camps, and our factories in the fields, our system does not offer much.

  

  Dorothy Day
  • Church

• What is school for? If you're not asking that, you're wasting time and money.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Time
  • School
  • Money

• The Pentagon budget, like all government spending, is an expression of priorities.

  

  Alex Pareene