Lisa Murkowski Quotes

I don't buy into this, 'Oh, poor us. We've got tough budget problems.'

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• If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

  

  Yousuf Karsh
  • Great
  • Men
  • Single

• It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there. We need to revive on many levels an illustrious desire to get to know the world, to learn another language, to understand and create empathy with people that live a few kilometers away from us. It's never late to do this.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Problems
  • Because
  • Grow

• We are all quick to point out all the differences but not as willing to accept what bonds us as humans.

  

  Faran Tahir
  • Differences
  • Point
  • Accept

• Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Long
  • Need
  • Resources

• Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • You

• As I grow older, I become more and more of a Marxist - Groucho, that is. When you have lived two-thirds of your life, you know the value of a good joke.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Life
  • Good
  • Value

• While liberals are leery of religious fundamentalism in general, they consistently imagine that all religions at their core teach the same thing and teach it equally well. This is one of the many delusions borne of political correctness.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Political
  • Religious
  • Same

• If you make - not have - $1 million a year, should you not participate in the sense of community of our country? I'm willing to put that on the table.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Country
  • You
  • Community

• People think I only wear new clothes, that I'm very trendy, but I like classic things on me, to mix with a trendy pair of shoes.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Think
  • Shoes

• I always talk about my characters like they're real people.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • People
  • Real
  • Always

• I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Think
  • Try
  • Fearless

• Does the damned fool want to be blown up? Well, blow him up then. Give him hell, Captain Morton- as hot as you've got it, too.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Up
  • Fool
  • Blow

• There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Taken
  • Fate

• Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.

  

  Edward Young
  • Death
  • Blow

• In 1994, Burns told the editorial board of the Bozeman Chronicle that when asked by a constituent, 'How can you live back there in Washington, DC with all those niggers?' he replied, 'It's a hell of a challenge.' When he was asked about the use of the racial slur, he said: 'I don't know. I never gave it much thought.'

  

  Conrad Burns
  • Live
  • Challenge

• CalArts was incredible for me. It's a school that I rave about and constantly want to give back to.

  

  Derek Magyar
  • School

• I'm a chairperson for 'No Kid Hungry', a campaign for poor American children.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Children
  • American

• You want to buy cars and houses and castles, all of that's on you and how America has systematized your mind to be into materialism. Hip-hop ain't got nothing to do with that. I'm glad that anybody making money has picked themselves up - I just want them to give some of it back to the community.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Money

• ...photographers who carry 60 pounds of equipment up a hill to photograph a view are not suffering enough, although their whining causes enough suffering among their listeners. No, if they really expect us to respect their search for enlightenment and artistic expression, in the future they will drag the equipment up the hill by their genitals and take the view with a tripod leg stuck through their foot.

  

  Bill Jay
  • Suffering
  • Enlightenment
  • Photographers

• The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Love
  • Modesty
  • Maiden

• They must be either for or against us. Distrust them and you make them your enemies, place confidence in them, and you engage them by every dear and honorable tie to the interest of the country, who extends to them equal rights and privileges with white men.

  

  Andrew Jackson
  • Men
  • Country
  • Confidence

• The last couple of roles I missed out on went to Jennifer Hudson, Jessica Biel and Olivia Wilde.

  

  Amy Schumer
  • Couple

• I don't buy into this, 'Oh, poor us. We've got tough budget problems.'

  

  Lisa Murkowski