Bobby Darin Quotes

I drilled holes in the floor of the club, and it's sinking.

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• I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Live
  • Democracy
  • Care

• Grease and starch just always win over protein. In food as in so many things. Look around you, that's what our whole country is based on. It's amazing that Michael Jordan can be an iconic figure because he's basically just protein.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Country
  • Food
  • Amazing

• Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Want
  • Emotion
  • Flowers

• When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Feel

• As far as Raman Raghav is concerned, he is ruthless.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Far
  • Ruthless
  • As Far As

• I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil.

  

  Uri Geller
  • She
  • Me
  • Woman

• I believe that in this world it is impossible to understand God.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • World
  • God
  • Believe

• I grew up on a tiny little island.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Up
  • Little
  • Island

• Kids will come into my boxing gym with no discipline, and then you teach them how to focus and love what they're doing, which then travels outside into their home and work life.

  

  Tamer Hassan
  • Life
  • Home
  • Kids

• Fortunately, I'm married to someone who's a pretty excellent parent!

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Pretty
  • Parent
  • Someone

• If I have a feeling of not trusting, I don't get too close.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Feeling
  • Close
  • Too

• Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Freedom
  • Best
  • Criticism

• But TV has changed completely. It's not until you come into people's homes that everyone says, 'You're a success now.'

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • People
  • Success
  • Now

• Our morality is based on so many factors: of where we were born, who we were born to, what values were instilled in us, what values we chose, the way that our lives have shaped us. That dictates so much of what we assume is our morality, and also the culture, all of these things.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Culture
  • Values
  • Morality

• Specialized management courses are useful but should come well after the complexity of management and business are understood.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Business
  • Management
  • Useful

• It animal research is immoral even if it's essential.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Animal

• Potius sero quam nunquam.

  

  Livy

• Sometimes we try to justify this unsavory business on the cynical ground that by rationing out the means of violence we can somehow control the world’s violence. The fact is that we cannot have it both ways. Can we be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war?

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • World
  • Business
  • War

• I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Up
  • Environment

• At that time, about July 5, we had no Iraqi corrections officers working for us. It was a responsibility of the CPA, with contractors, to set up a training program.

  

  Janis Karpinski
  • Up
  • Time
  • Responsibility

• The other day I was reading a blog and I linked over to Streisand's Web site, and it was amazing politically. She's so insightful and incisive. And she also says whatever she wants.

  

  Liz Phair
  • She
  • Reading
  • Amazing

• I believe when there are so many forces pulling our society apart, we need more commitment to marriage, not less.

  

  Lisa Murkowski
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Marriage

• The old way of doing 'good business' was based on the principle, 'the ends justifies the means.' In the future, good business will invoke 'the means justifying the ends.' The E P&L can already serve as an important tool to help this shift in commerce from generating profits with collateral damages to profits with collateral benefits.

  

  Jochen Zeitz
  • Good
  • Important
  • Business

• I drilled holes in the floor of the club, and it's sinking.

  

  Bobby Darin