Lloyd Bentsen Quotes

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

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• If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Want
  • You
  • Point

• I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • World
  • Think
  • Best

• I'll keep doing my training and I'm sure the goals will come.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Training
  • Doing
  • Goals

• Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Home
  • Man
  • Wisdom

• Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Want
  • Freedom
  • Problems

• Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Why
  • Always
  • Environmental

• 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

• When I'm doing something I love, I can lose sleep. I can go and go and go and go. My work ethic is pretty intense. But when it comes to doing something that I don't love every day, I'm not very good at it. That's called work, and I don't like work that much.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Good
  • Work
  • Love

• You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Mind
  • You
  • Repetition

• Like every audition I go on, I do my best, but after that, I let it go because, you know, the rejection rate is so great in Hollywood, and I can only control what I do in the audition, and after that it's up to somebody else.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Up
  • Great
  • Control

• America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Up
  • America
  • Responsibility

• The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Light
  • Water
  • Democracy

• I love the ocean, but I'm just not one to lie on the beach.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Love
  • Ocean
  • Beach

• Citizenship and ethnicity can become, in certain contexts, restrictive, and perhaps that's one reason I was interested in people who feel compelled to mask their origins and thereby circumvent the restrictions.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Mask
  • Citizenship

• To grow, people need to be challenged.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Need
  • Grow

• It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.'

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Great
  • God
  • Power

• Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Time
  • Why
  • Always

• The big question about how people behave is whether they've got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • You
  • Question

• It doesn’t matter, she thought, and realized in spite of everything, horror after horror, Roche still believed in God. He had been going to the church to say matins when he found the steward, and if they all died, he would go on saying them and not find anything incongruous in his prayers.

  

  Connie Willis
  • God
  • She
  • Church

• What I'm making music for now is more similar to what I was doing in the beginning. In those days it was all about doing music so when people heard it in a club it would take their minds of their worries. I got more artistic but now I've gone back to basics.

  

  Curtis Jones
  • People
  • Music
  • Beginning

• Qui serere ingenuum uolet agrumliberat arua prius fruticibus,falce rubos filicemque resecat,ut noua fruge grauis Ceres eat.

  

  Boethius

• The really great gallerists have always been interested in imagery that is not that imagery.

  

  Rachael Price
  • Great
  • Imagery
  • Really Great

• The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue.

  

  Steve Irwin
  • Caught
  • Rescue
  • Crocodile

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

  

  Lloyd Bentsen
  • Friend