Lloyd Bentsen Quotes

I knew Jack Kennedy; Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.

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• After I resigned, I could eventually speak for myself, but when it first happened, I was in complete shock, and it took a long time for me to overcome it.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Time
  • Long
  • Myself

• I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Money
  • Help
  • Mother

• Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if they're self-produced, have someone else mix it, or they'll have someone else master the record. Inevitably, it's like somebody else's personality being put into your art.

  

  Washed Out
  • People
  • Art
  • Help

• My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It's to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • World
  • Light
  • Spirit

• Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Poetry

• When I started out, the idea of comfort in shoes was almost a dirty word.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Idea
  • Shoes
  • Dirty

• Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Good
  • Job
  • Quality

• When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • People
  • Like
  • Just

• I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Kids
  • Know
  • Old

• Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Die
  • Sense

• We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Power
  • Fear
  • Blow

• A house divided against itself cannot stand.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • House
  • Stand
  • Divided

• My parents worked in the art world. They were really supportive of my music in that they allowed me to drop out of school and move out of our home, which not many parents would do.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • World
  • Music
  • School

• I'm not a great band member; I'm more of a band leader.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Great
  • Band
  • Leader

• Bridget Jones has a lot to answer for.

  

  Daisy Donovan
  • Answer
  • Lot
  • Bridget Jones

• While actors are great and awesome, writers literally create new worlds from scratch. What is sexier than that? Personally, I don't know why every last person out there isn't dating a writer.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Great
  • Why
  • Awesome

• My everyday job is about superficial beauty, but when I'm not working I prefer to work on my inner beauty - I read a lot, I try to learn.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • Work
  • Job
  • Beauty

• When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line?

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Children
  • Family
  • Man

• The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it's bad if you say anything.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Kids
  • Bad
  • Fall

• I love musical theater so much. When done right, I think comedy songs can be the most efficient form of joke delivery. Songs can be the most efficient and the best forms of conveying emotion. Music is universal. It's worldwide.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Music
  • Comedy
  • Right

• There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Different
  • Mind

• I like to tell students, 'I didn't burst on to the literary scene.' I'm never good at things at the beginning. I was terrible at the start. I need to work and work.

  

  Markus Zusak
  • Good
  • Work
  • Beginning

• I knew Jack Kennedy; Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.

  

  Lloyd Bentsen
  • Friend
  • Memorable
  • Mines