Andrew Mellon Quotes
A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.
Quotes to Explore
-
My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
-
If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
-
It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.
-
My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
-
There's no family in America that can celebrate a victory better than the Harbaughs. You'll never hear more laughter, more storytelling, or more embellishment.
-
I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
-
I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd have to read the book, I haven't got time to read a whole book for a fifty dollar write-up.
-
I don't think I should be telling you every 10 minutes what to think. I like to leave the audience alone with the magic. I tend to trust the material, or I don't do it.
-
I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.
-
My job means I work late.
-
If Assad continues to conduct strikes against the Free Syrian Army at will, it would be very difficult for them to have any success against ISIS.
-
There's nobody you can point to in the world that doesn't make a mistake. The best players, the best business people, the best coaches. So one thing is not going to make or break a person.
-
Philosophers are never quite sure what they are talking about - about what the issues really are - and so often it takes them rather a long time to recognize that someone with a somewhat different approach (or destination, or starting point) is making a contribution.
-
When you talk with famous scholars, the best thing is to pretend that occasionally you do not quite understand them. If you understand too little, you will be despised; if you understand too much, you will be disliked; if you just fail occasionally to understand them you will suit each other very well.
-
Sweet is the melody, so hard to come by,It's so hard to make every note bend just right.You lay down the hours and leave not one traceBut a tune for the dancing is there in it's place.
-
There were probably, what, 300 science-fiction members in the SFWA, of whom probably a hundred were active members in the sense that they were selling something every year, or every couple years.
-
I'm just human, and I have great relationships with the people that work for me.
-
The way you perform really depends on the way you live your life. It's not two separate things.
-
The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.
-
I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.
-
However unattractive, pre-nups are at least a way round a law that dictates simply because you love someone and share their bed, that person has a claim on everything you own.
-
I've always loved working, doing interviews with the guys on the 'Today' show; everyone's really easygoing, and I always feel comfortable on the show.
-
There is a place where Contrarieties are equally True.
-
A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.
