Ari Fleischer Quotes

I don't expect the press to say thank you for the efforts that I make.

Ari Fleischer

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• I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • Live
  • Single

• I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Live
  • Joy
  • Jesus

• A lot of them are afraid to sit down and break their position. You should be able to make it so natural that you can just get out, and sit down and walk away from it, and there's nothing wrong with that.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • Down
  • Afraid
  • Walk

• Biochemistry is the science of life. All our life processes - walking, talking, moving, feeding - are essentially chemical reactions. So biochemistry is actually the chemistry of life, and it's supremely interesting.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Life
  • Science
  • Interesting

• If there was a time when 'The Ecologist' appeared not to be making a difference at all, not doing something useful, I wouldn't do 'The Ecologist,' but I think it is useful.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Time
  • Think
  • Doing

• When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.

  

  Fefe Dobson
  • Life
  • Change
  • Start

• You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Political
  • You
  • Know

• But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • School
  • Sex
  • Movies

• The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Reality
  • Air
  • Human

• Every July, I look forward to taping a Christmas show - in July in Nashville. In 98-degree weather. I love it.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Christmas
  • Show
  • Forward

• As I was writing 'The Shock Doctrine', I was covering the Iraq War and profiteering from the war, and I started to see these patterns repeat in the aftermath of natural disasters, like the Asian tsunami and then Hurricane Katrina.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Writing
  • War
  • See

• I consider that of all the dashed silly, drivelling ideas I ever heard in my puff this is the most blithering and futile. It won't work. Not a chance.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Work
  • Silly

• The first woman minister, Antoinette Brown, had to meet ridicule and opposition that can hardly be conceived to-day. Now there are women ministers, east and west, all over the country.

  

  Lucy Stone
  • Women
  • Country

• It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, where Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.

  

  Alice Meynell
  • Time
  • Great
  • Nature

• Food is a big part of my life.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Life
  • Food

• Dancing's not always stressful, but I always make sure that I'm prepared as I can be, both physically, mentally, and practically.

  

  Deborah Bull

• In a conversation with a male executive, he tells me that he doesn't hire women because 'it's not worth the trouble.' I mentally blacklist him.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Women

• Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.

  

  Arna Bontemps
  • Dance
  • Sky
  • Rain

• A lot of companies have nice-sounding cultural values like integrity, respect, and excellence, but if those values don't map to specific behaviors, then they quickly get lost. Instead, we see what's called a 'halo effect' where leaders tend to overvalue certain attributes and undervalue others.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Respect
  • Lost
  • Nice

• The details of the personal expenses that executives put on the company tab often are not known because loopholes in federal disclosure rules let publicly traded companies generally avoid disclosing the perks they give executives along with pay and stock options.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Stock

• During my time as CIA Director and Secretary of Defense, Hillary was a strong supporter of our efforts to protect our homeland, decimate al-Qaeda, and bring Osama bin Laden to justice.

  

  Leon Panetta
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Justice

• Always remember, it's simply not an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Remember
  • Adventure
  • Dragons

• ...the best figurative poetry speaks not to the frivolous intellect, but (if anything does) straight to the heart; and does it better than plain prose. There seems then to be something which is better said with metaphor than without, which goes straighter to its mark by going crooked, and hits its aim exactly by flying off at tangents.

  

  Austin Farrer
  • Heart
  • Poetry
  • Flying

• I don't expect the press to say thank you for the efforts that I make.

  

  Ari Fleischer