Allen West Quotes

Compassion comes from a choice and not the liberal definition of a choice - the choice to say I can do with a little less so my brother can have a little more.

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• I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Learning
  • Dance
  • Stars

• There was a lot of me trying to be a 'fixer.' I was that kind of guy. I'd meet someone who had 'so much potential' that needed 'help.' I think that was kind of my curse for a long time.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Time
  • Long
  • Trying

• Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Age
  • Perfect
  • Fire

• I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Work
  • Position
  • Redesign

• If I were the president, I would tape everything that is said around me and what I said, because we know how sometimes things get misconstrued.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Know
  • Me
  • Sometimes

• I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.

  

  Kaki King
  • Music
  • Color
  • Red

• I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.

  

  Natasha Calis
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Long

• In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Age
  • Actress
  • Hollyweird

• Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.

  

  Xenophon
  • Government
  • Laws
  • Wherever

• If I was a condiment, I'm gonna go ahead and say I would be Sriracha, because I go well with other things. I'm too much for some people, and hipsters like me.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • People
  • Say
  • Other

• Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Friend
  • Artist

• I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Public
  • Intellectual

• Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.

  

  Carl D. Anderson
  • Heart
  • Home
  • Place

• The luxury of radio is that you don't spend hours in make-up, and you can wear whatever you want. It's bizarre. You'll be saying lines, with various people around making sound effect noises.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • People
  • Up
  • Saying

• With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Place
  • Start
  • Expectations

• The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Important
  • Mirror
  • Tool

• It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Easy
  • Started
  • Getting

• I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Father
  • Think
  • Environmental

• Mohammed Taheri-Azar, a naturalized U.S. citizen hailing from Iran, crashed his SUV into a crowd at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2006, injuring nine people.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • People

• Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Music
  • Experience
  • Life-Changing

• The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Church
  • Teaching
  • Regard

• When I was in fourth grade, I had a lot of upheaval in my life. Both of my parents remarried, and we all got new houses. That was also the year my older brother got very sick.

  

  Lisa Graff
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Brother

• Compassion comes from a choice and not the liberal definition of a choice - the choice to say I can do with a little less so my brother can have a little more.

  

  Allen West
  • Brother
  • Compassion