Andrew Johnson Quotes

I hold it the duty of the Executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditures, and a sparing economy is itself a great national resource.

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• Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Remember
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Old
  • Italian
  • Saying

• I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Music
  • Why
  • Know

• Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Turn
  • Angels
  • Hierarchy

• When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Politics
  • Accountability

• No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!

  

  Kate Moss
  • Movie
  • Perfect
  • Wine

• I have the necessary lack of tact.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Necessary
  • Lack
  • Tact

• I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Family

• My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Business
  • Like
  • Deal

• Winning and making history is something you can't buy. Me? I'm a guy who loves history. When I'm 60 or 70, I don't want to be remembered for the money I make. I want to be in the history books.

  

  LaMarr Woodley
  • Money
  • History
  • Guy

• Over-eating is the addiction choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Why
  • Choice
  • Addiction

• Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
  • Life
  • Better
  • Seed

• My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,' when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance!

  

  Kate Moss
  • Up
  • World
  • She

• I'm a songwriter. Everything affects me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Me
  • Songwriter
  • Affects

• Everybody grows but me.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Me
  • Grows
  • Everybody

• No one has a right to comment on anyone's life or the choices I do or don't make.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Choices
  • Right

• If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Me
  • Need
  • Socks

• I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Writing
  • Know
  • Hip Hop

• I developed 'Trapped' because I was fascinated with the idea of a terrible crime in a small town cut off from the rest of the world.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • World
  • Small
  • Rest

• Some of those songs, you really have to bite them. You challenge yourself, you challenge the audience, you do something different. People weren't expecting it.

  

  Andy Taylor Duran Duran
  • People
  • Different
  • Challenge

• People think just because I'm from the Middle East, I'm an expert on the Middle East. So, like, I got a friend, like, any time the gas prices go up, he'll always ask my opinion about it.

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• If I feel insecure, then I am in the wrong profession. I have to trust my director and the material he has given me.

  

  Arjun Kapoor
  • Trust

• I don't know what I'll be like when I'm 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentleman.

  

  David Walliams
  • Gentleman

• I hold it the duty of the Executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditures, and a sparing economy is itself a great national resource.

  

  Andrew Johnson
  • Great