Amy Klobuchar Quotes

I guess my claim to fame is I've now gaveled Ted Kennedy to order twice.

Amy Klobuchar

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• Exposure is about, among other things, the ferocity of the press and the way - in an echo of some of Shakespeare's plays - the modern media creates heroes to destroy them.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Media
  • Destroy
  • Heroes

• There's so much bigotry that needs to be overcome.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Needs
  • Much
  • Overcome

• I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Society

• I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.

  

  Carl Barks
  • Thought
  • Hell
  • Cynicism

• Before we start filming, I have a strong idea of the look and the feel that I want to create, and I'm happy to explore any means that will help me achieve that.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • Happy
  • Help
  • Strong

• I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Life
  • Politics
  • Conscious

• It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • People
  • Joy
  • Talk

• Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • People
  • Giving
  • Honesty

• I'm a huge baseball fan and follow it very closely.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Baseball
  • Very
  • Follow

• I'm fascinated by simple joy.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Simple
  • Joy
  • Fascinated

• The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Soul
  • Earth
  • Powerful

• When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Movie
  • Goal
  • Acting

• I was blessed with a long career where I won gold medals for myself and my country. Nothing stands out as a disappointment.

  Gail Devers
  • Long
  • Country
  • Career

• You know, everybody believes in free speech until you start questioning them about it.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Free
  • Start
  • Speech

• Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.

  

  Lactantius
  • Truth
  • Human
  • Information

• Even if you look at the 'Paranormal Activity' movies, at the end of the movie things get really crazy and nutty, but they all start in a very mundane situation that people can relate to, and that's also to some degree what we tried to do in 'Chernobyl Diaries.'

  

  Oren Peli
  • People
  • Movie
  • Crazy

• When you play a character, there's always a part of you. Like, you always bring out a side of you when you do another character.

  

  Nathalie Kelley
  • Character
  • Play
  • Always

• Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Myself
  • Charity
  • Give

• As I prepare for this next phase in my life, I ask that people continue to offer the prayers that have protected me thus far. I also pray that I will always see those who are not seen and easy to forget in the hustle and bustle of Washington politics.

  

  Artur Davis
  • People
  • Life
  • Hustle

• I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.

  

  Lawrence Welk
  • Life
  • Father
  • Farmer

• I'd been taught from an early age that I was in the 'other' category on the standardized tests. You know, I had to go down the checklist - Caucasian, African-American, Latino, Asian-Pacific Islander, and then, you know, at the bottom is other. So, you know, very early on I was taught, in a way, that I was somehow this anomaly.

  

  Jordan Peele
  • American
  • Age

• Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment.

  

  Pearl Bailey
  • People
  • Life

• Guys are kind of retarded until they're about 30.

  

  Katherine Heigl

• I guess my claim to fame is I've now gaveled Ted Kennedy to order twice.

  

  Amy Klobuchar