Ann Marie Buerkle Quotes

It's not that I'm not willing to compromise. But I won't compromise on principles.

Ann Marie Buerkle

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• Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Think
  • Want
  • Smile

• The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Up
  • World
  • Community

• I don't think I'm as educated as Whoopi, so I'm lifting myself to her level. But you know, our view of the world, our view of what we can do, our sense of what it means to be here, are similar.

  

  Ted Danson
  • World
  • Myself
  • View

• I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Mind

• We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • People
  • Power
  • Faith

• It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Life
  • Way
  • Feelings

• As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Time
  • Best
  • Better

• Clearly, border security has been the top domestic issue of the year, and rightly so. Securing our borders is an essential aspect of our national security.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Security
  • Year
  • Top

• My siblings and I, we were raised on TV and films. Not a day went by that we weren't watching one of three movies - 'Caddyshack,' 'Animal House,' 'Beverly Hills Cop' - on rotation. Our comedy, our personalities were set watching 'Sesame Street': these really sort of wacky, Jim Henson-y characters.

  

  Teddy Sears
  • House
  • Day
  • Comedy

• Force-backed humanitarianism, which relies on rational influence over events in other countries, may have been a more feasible project in the bipolar era of the Cold War, with its relatively defined and stable web of alliances and proxies.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • May
  • War
  • Cold

• If you want to lose weight, you have to be obsessed with it. You can't depend upon your dietician, your trainer or various health aids that you have. You have to be organised. And believe me, it isn't that difficult. The first 10 days are terrible because you have to break the lifelong habits that you have made.

  

  Kajol
  • Believe
  • Terrible
  • Obsessed

• We need to just study what other countries have done. There are examples of a strong partnership between the defence establishment and the private industry.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Done
  • Strong
  • Study

• The deal is that women have entered the workforce, but they have not been relieved of the domestic responsibilities.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Women
  • Deal
  • Workforce

• The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Writing

• A little roller up along first; behind the bag! It gets through Buckner! Here comes Knight and the Mets win it!

  

  Vin Scully
  • Up

• To the last moment of his breathOn hope the wretch relies;And e'en the pang preceding deathBids expectation rise.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Hope
  • Expectation

• What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow? How could I possibly join them on to the little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush, as produces little effect after much labour?

  

  Jane Austen
  • Work
  • Strong

• Whatever voice spoke to him was no demon but some old shed self that came yet from time to time in the name of sanity, a hand to gentle him back from the rim of his disastrous wrath. (p.149)

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Time
  • Hand
  • Demon

• Philosophy … is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Science
  • Faith

• When one gets reports from scientists, engineers and technicians whose credibility by all common standards is high and whose moral caliber seems to preclude a hoax, one can do no less than hear them out, in all seriousness.

  

  J. Allen Hynek
  • High
  • Moral

• God lives, but not as we. His creatures live but to die. But God is life. Therefore, goodness is not an attribute. Goodness is God.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Die
  • Creatures

• The fun of directing for me, other than working with the actors, is trying to extract those ideas that you have in your head and make them real.

  

  Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
  • Real
  • Ideas
  • Directing

• It's not that I'm not willing to compromise. But I won't compromise on principles.

  

  Ann Marie Buerkle