Alexander Haig Quotes

I started out as a Cold Warrior, even my last years in grade school.

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• America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • America
  • Artist
  • Talent

• I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Love
  • Want
  • Forever

• It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Important
  • Song
  • Meaning

• For the first time I'm free to be myself.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Time
  • Free
  • Myself

• Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Men
  • Power
  • Nature

• Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Friendship
  • Will
  • Naked

• We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Know
  • Person
  • Actions

• I want to do everything in my power to ensure the equality between all movements of Judaism in the state of Israel: Orthodox, Conservative, or Reform. In conversions, in budgets, in the eyes of the law. No one can claim ownership over the Jewish God.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • God
  • Power
  • Law

• I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Believe
  • Feel
  • I Believe

• I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Doing
  • Television
  • Excited

• Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Time
  • Relationship
  • Stars

• The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.

  

  Garrett Graff
  • Positive
  • Influence
  • Media

• Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Death

• I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Good
  • Science
  • Universe

• There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.

  

  Sam Richards
  • United States
  • Odd
  • United

• Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Born
  • Generation
  • Decade

• Enjoy every sandwich.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Enjoy
  • Every
  • Sandwich

• The fact is, it's hard to release movies.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Movies
  • Hard
  • Fact

• In my childhood there was every year at my old home, Roxborough, or, as it is called in Irish, Cregroostha, a great sheep-shearing that lasted many days. On the last evening there was always a dance for the shearers and their helpers, and two pipers used to sit on chairs placed on a corn-bin to make music for the dance.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Great
  • Music
  • Home

• 'It's not about money right now. My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general.

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • Music
  • Money
  • Ambition

• The smartest thing I did in law school: asking my future wife to go out dancing with me. The smartest thing I did when practicing law: quitting. The smartest thing I've done in writing: following my own head and writing what I wanted to write, and nothing but.

  

  Ben Fountain
  • Writing
  • School
  • Done

• There was a school in Chicago called the School of Design. This was started by Laszló Moholy-Nagy, and it was a wonderful school, but we with Alix MacKenzie didn't go to that school. We did have friends who went to that school and we would visit there often, and I'm sure it pushed me in my painting direction very strongly just by association.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • School
  • Design
  • Painting

• My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Child

• I started out as a Cold Warrior, even my last years in grade school.

  

  Alexander Haig
  • School
  • Cold
  • Warrior