Allen West Quotes

When did 'Ask not what your country can do for you' become 'Ask only what your country will give you'?

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• I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which is different than working in programming, you don't need to know. You could just write and discover where you're going. And it's a great deal of fun.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Great
  • Different
  • Writing

• Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Time
  • Day
  • Challenge

• My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Up
  • World
  • Men

• I moved to New York when I was 21 and worked between 40 and 70 hours a week. Then I invested it all. It was really just a hustle. But I was kind of raised to work like that, so to me, it seemed very normal and natural.

  

  Verite
  • Work
  • New York
  • Week

• The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • World
  • Position
  • Spanish

• You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Me
  • Next
  • Project

• I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Life
  • Up
  • Remember

• I have a degree in European history, which didn't necessarily have any direct impact on my career, but I'm grateful I studied something other than acting in college.

  

  Becki Newton
  • History
  • Career
  • College

• Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • Fun
  • Films
  • Fact

• Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Passion
  • Always
  • Dance

• Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Mind
  • Perfect
  • Consciousness

• I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.

  

  M. J. Hyland
  • Think
  • Reading
  • Best

• I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • God
  • Me
  • Son

• On top of my to-do list in preparing for Beijing is 'On China' by Henry Kissinger, who has had firsthand experience with every top Chinese leader since Mao, so his insights are valuable and his access is perhaps unrivaled.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Experience
  • Leader
  • Chinese

• When I was a young girl, I was so crazy about animals that I wanted to do something associated with them, and I thought of being a vet. But then again, I figured I had to go to medical school, and science wasn't a good subject for me, so I dropped the idea pretty soon and thought maybe I could be a vet's assistant.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Good
  • School
  • Pretty

• What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Good
  • Society
  • Nothing

• To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Me
  • Action
  • Sin

• Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our­ selves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think of the prison as disconnected from our own lives. This is even true for some of us, women as well as men, who have already experienced imprisonment.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• I really turned into, you know, the real street kid. I was kind of like a runaway, but I had a mother, you know what I mean, and I had a place to stay.

  

  Etta James
  • Mother
  • Place
  • Kid

• Not once during Obama's tenure did the country achieve an annual 3 percent rate of economic growth.

  

  Pete Hoekstra
  • Country
  • Growth

• If, in 2014, we're still making 'white savior movies,' then it's just lazy and unfortunate. We've grown up as a country, and cinema should be able to reflect what's true. And what's true is that black people are the center of their own lives and should tell their own stories from their own perspectives.

  

  Ava DuVernay
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• Listen, if you choose to believe nothing else that transpires here, believe this: your body does not have a soul; your soul has a body, and souls never, ever die.

  

  Bernice L. McFadden
  • Believe
  • Soul
  • Choose

• When did 'Ask not what your country can do for you' become 'Ask only what your country will give you'?

  

  Allen West
  • Country