Lynne Cheney Quotes

I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed.

Lynne Cheney

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• I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Sell

• I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Independent

• We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Heroes
  • Conflicts
  • Tale

• I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Little
  • Got
  • Tomboy

• I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Failure

• The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Women
  • Slavery
  • Medical

• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• If you try to break into my house, you will be severely lacerated and possibly electrocuted, and I'm fine with that. Because if you're breaking into my house, you're on your own.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • House
  • You
  • Try

• Guys who are charismatic and fun-loving and sweet and generous are the ones I want to date.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Fun
  • Want
  • Sweet

• When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Thinking
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Trying
  • Hope

• Do you agree that the European Union should be able to prescribe the mandatory settlement of non-Hungarian citizens in Hungary without the consent of parliament?

  

  Viktor Orban
  • You
  • Without
  • Consent

• Aretha Franklin was as important to the civil-rights movement as Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Artists can choose to take on the tremendous amount of responsibility we have, or choose to ignore it.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Ignore

• But it's not just a game of finding literary references.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Game
  • Finding
  • Literary

• Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man can think of the Queen of the angels, during the time that she suffered so much with the Infant Jesus, without giving thanks to St. Joseph for the services he rendered them then.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Time
  • She
  • Man

• I sing in many different colors and, hopefully, they add up to a great performance that, after you leave the theater, makes you feel like I've really shared something of myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Up
  • Great
  • Different

• My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Energy
  • Joy
  • Humanity

• We didn't readjust our thinking or rebuild quick enough.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Thinking
  • Enough
  • Rebuild

• Man alone, it seems, lives all his life in the knowledge of death. And yet there is more to life than merely waiting for death. For life to have meaning, there must be a purpose. A man must pass something on — otherwise he is useless.

  

  David Gemmell
  • Life
  • Death
  • Knowledge

• To be a friend of the Everglades is not necessarily to spend time wandering around out there.

  

  Marjory Stoneman Douglas
  • Time
  • Friend

• I love it when novels contain a broad cast of characters, including queer ones.

  

  Emma Donoghue

• Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land.

  

  Daniel Inouye
  • May
  • Future
  • Risk

• How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Truth
  • Experiment
  • Embodiment

• I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed.

  

  Lynne Cheney
  • Truth
  • Irrelevant
  • Chairman