Eliot Engel Quotes

While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos.

Eliot Engel

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• For a long time, I thought I was going to play basketball. There's not many 6-4 white guys playing the three spot in the NBA, so I realized I probably didn't have much of a future in basketball and that football was probably going to be my best bet.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Time
  • Long
  • Future

• In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Age
  • Internet
  • Talk

• I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Life
  • Help
  • Death

• What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Should
  • Matter
  • Say

• I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.

  

  Washed Out
  • Up
  • Song
  • Kind

• The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Rich

• I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Great
  • Literature

• I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Just
  • Union
  • Square

• I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Time
  • High
  • Try

• The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Want
  • You
  • Thought

• Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • People
  • Party
  • Doing

• Follow the fellow who follows a dream.

  

  E. Y. Harburg
  • Dream
  • Follow
  • Fellow

• First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Chance
  • First
  • Achievement

• For me, the idea of curating can be expanded. Curating science, curating art, music and theater and performance and not only bring those things into art but bring art into those areas.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Music
  • Art
  • Science

• Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • Science
  • Planning
  • Economic

• Making movies, you're like an independent contractor - you come in, you have a specific job, and a lot of what you do is completely manipulated, which is good and bad.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Good
  • Job
  • Bad

• One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the belief systems of your parents might have been: If you perform the same experiment that someone else did, at a different time and place, you'll get the same result.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Time
  • Different
  • Parents

• We all have them, those parts of us that are the greatest parts of us and the worst parts of us. Sometimes we're put in circumstances and bad choices are made.

  

  Elizabeth Rodriguez
  • Bad
  • Choices

• I'd love to work with Drake; I'd love to work with Frank Ocean, Jay Z, and Kanye. The list is endless.

  

  Dua Lipa
  • Work
  • Ocean

• I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• I have healthy disagreements with political parties I'm not aligned with, but I don't think it should be to the point where we're cursing and trying to strangle each other.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Political

• While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos.

  

  Eliot Engel
  • Political
  • Health
  • Poverty