Elise Stefanik Quotes

Things won't change unless we have new types of candidates.

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• I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Great
  • Music
  • Friends

• My mom cooked for us, and on the weekend, we always had Sunday dinner. My father liked to bake.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Father
  • Mom
  • Sunday

• When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Science
  • Myself
  • Mistake

• The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Man
  • Law
  • Justice

• A boardroom is a collection of individuals, and individuals have varying motives, egos, agendas and qualifications. Sometimes the dynamics can go off track.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Sometimes
  • Go
  • Collection

• I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • People
  • Time
  • Basketball

• Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • High
  • Respect
  • Literature

• It is okay to be an outsider, a recent arrival, new on the scene - and not just okay, but something to be thankful for... Because being an insider can so easily mean collapsing the horizons, can so easily mean accepting the presumptions of your province.

  

  Tan Le
  • New
  • Thankful
  • Be Thankful

• Writing has to support itself.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Writing
  • Support
  • Itself

• What is it to be normal, at 12, at 78? What is it like when you can't grow up?

  

  Karen Bender
  • Up
  • You
  • Grow

• Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don't always start with the music. I often start with a visual artist, and then find music that fits the world of that visual artist.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • World
  • Music
  • Start

• I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Age
  • Normal
  • Hot

• You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might tell at dinner. This is especially true when you

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Heart
  • True

• Wonderful theory, wrong species. (On Marxism, which he considered more suited to ants than to humans.)

  

  E. O. Wilson

• It is not by prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Knowledge
  • Wish
  • Prayer

• I was really sick of bands just ignoring the audience as a posture in rock music. And I think we fed off each other in terms of trying to engage the audience, not in a hammy way, but actually trying to be aware of the space that you are playing in and trying to connect in some way through the music.

  

  Win Butler
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Space

• You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?'

  

  Christopher Meloni
  • Fun

• If there are activists in Cosas and they do poorly academically, then they would be cited as examples as to why others should not be in Cosas.

  

  Kgalema Motlanthe
  • Why

• My family has always supported me a thousand percent. My sister once sold her jewelry so I could pay for gas money to get up to New York for a show. And that's amazing. But you get too much of that, you start depending on it.

  

  Jay Pharoah
  • Up
  • Family
  • Money

• Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government.

  

  Neil Steinberg
  • Important
  • Government
  • Politics

• The idea of uploading a video that the whole world had access to made me nervous.

  

  Bethany Mota
  • World

• I don't take well to rules.

  

  Aidy Bryant

• I believe that there is good. I believe there is evil. Do I believe that they come from God who is watching us conduct myriad never-ending wars and looks benignly on because there's higher purpose to all of this? I don't think so.

  

  Holly Hunter
  • Good
  • God
  • Believe

• Things won't change unless we have new types of candidates.

  

  Elise Stefanik