Andrew Johnson Quotes

Notwithstanding a mendacious press; notwithstanding a subsidized gang of hirelings who have not ceased to traduce me, I have discharged all my official duties and fulfilled my pledges. And I say here tonight that if my predecessor had lived, the vials of wrath would have poured out upon him.

Andrew Johnson

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• Look, you're here to see me, and I can't go on until my dealer is here, and he's waiting to be paid, so give me some money so I can fix up, and then you'll get your show.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Up
  • Money
  • Me

• When we talk about music, we talk about our reaction to it. One person might say that music is so poetic, while another says it's all mathematics. Yet another might say it's about sensuality, and so on. That's all true. But music is not just one of these things. It's everything all at once.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • True
  • Mathematics

• I like old Disney films that have an edge to them.

  

  Walt Dohrn
  • Like
  • Old
  • Disney

• Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

  

  Questlove
  • Art
  • Business
  • Hip Hop

• Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Poetry
  • Actor
  • Writer

• The sentiments in Hawaii about Washington's failure of leadership are no different than the rest of the country.

  

  Ed Case
  • Different
  • Country
  • Rest

• Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • Mean
  • Evil
  • Same

• What counts for most people in investing is not how much they know, but rather how realistically they define what they don't know. 'The genius of Warren Buffett in 23 quotes' MarketWatch (19 August 2015)

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • August

• The relevant poems are Milton's Paradise Lost, Pope's Essay on Man, Wordsworth's Excursion, Tennyson's In Memoriam.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Lost
  • Paradise

• I think a dream can take you farther than anything.

  

  Anna Sui
  • Dream

• How short our span! If you once realized how brief, you would refrain from causing any beast or man the smallest grief, the slightest pain.

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Pain
  • Grief

• To complete a work is just like being present at the death of someone you love.

  

  Claude Debussy
  • Work
  • Death
  • Present

• As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn and thin-on-top, and unlike him I laugh, nay, sneer, in the face of death. I will concede one point: we are both lesbian poets.

  

  Carol Ann Duffy
  • Work
  • Death
  • Knowledge

• The reports of my death have been greatly understated.

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Death

• I tend to root for characters who have a lot of negative qualities, but what's driving them forward is their passion. They're on a mission, and maybe their approach is misguided, but you can't fault them for giving 150%.

  

  Laurie Metcalf
  • Giving
  • Passion
  • Driving

• Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

  

  James A. Garfield
  • Men
  • History
  • Planning

• I think a lot of ladies get quite scared about people like me, 'rock stars', and it can be hard to meet the right sort of person.

  

  Jay Kay Jamiroquai
  • People
  • Rock

• I enjoy modeling. I feel that acting is more fulfilling for me, and you definitely have a lot more to contribute as an actress than you do as a model, but that being said, when I shoot with a really incredible photographer, it's exciting and inspiring.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Model

• Empathy takes time, and efficiency is for things, not people.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Empathy
  • Efficiency

• Dogs, to me, are like children. They are the closest thing to God. They are so pure in their love, and all they do is aim to please.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • God
  • Children

• You want to question what is important and why is it important. I don't have all the answers, but I'm very curious to know and learn.

  

  Prabal Gurung
  • Important
  • Why
  • Question

• At home it's all Batman and Star Wars and they do gang up on me. Sometimes I don't want to dress up as Darth Vader or play train sets, so I'll go out for a drink with the girls.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Up
  • Home
  • Star

• Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can,Come saddle your horses, and call up your men;Come open the West Port, and let me gang free,And it's room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!

  

  Walter Scott
  • Up
  • Men
  • Free

• Notwithstanding a mendacious press; notwithstanding a subsidized gang of hirelings who have not ceased to traduce me, I have discharged all my official duties and fulfilled my pledges. And I say here tonight that if my predecessor had lived, the vials of wrath would have poured out upon him.

  

  Andrew Johnson
  • Gang