Bennie Thompson Quotes
Medicare provided guaranteed equal coverage, something that the private sector could not.
Quotes to Explore
-
The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
-
I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.
-
Never worry about bad press: All that matters is if they spell your name right.
-
Whenever I get on stage, I feel safe and in control. Life can be so uncertain, but on stage, I always know how a drama or crisis is going to end. Acting is a great comfort blanket and has gotten me through countless personal crises. I am a firm believer that the show must go on.
-
The recession's high unemployment rates may have encouraged people to start sole proprietorships, but there are many obstacles in the way of growing a company to create jobs.
-
I was in 'Goodwin Games,' which was canceled, and a few other things, so I kind of swore off television unless I was writing or producing it.
-
I was involved in a bunch of school activities - I was a cheerleader, I was on the chess team, I was vice president of my class.
-
My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.
-
Although we resolutely supported the armed struggle against Batista's tyranny, we were, on principle, opposed to any terrorist action that could cause the death of innocent people.
-
L.A. is... I always feel sort of abducted when I'm there, like I've stepped onto another planet where everyone looks the same.
-
People in Toronto love to watch fights.
-
To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust.
-
If there is one quality that I find is more essential to a successful and happy life than any other, it is empathy. It is at the core of family stability and love. I’ve never had a couple come to me and say, 'I want a divorce; my partner understands me.'
-
Unfortunately for the modern dramatist, during the past century and a half the public realm has been less and less of a realm where human deeds are done, and more and more of a realm of mere human behavior. The contemporary dramatist has lost his natural subject.
-
We are sleeping on a volcano... A wind of revolution blows, the storm is on the horizon.
-
And so the arbitrary union of three incommensurate, mutually disconnected concepts became the basis of a bewildering theory... by which one of the lowest renderings of art, art for mere pleasure - against which all of the master teachers warned - was idealized as the ultimate in art.
-
When we hold to the core, the opposite sides are the same if they are seen from the center of the moving circle. I do not experience; I am experience. I am not the subject of experience; I am that experience. I am awareness. Nothing else can be I or can exist.
-
One can only call that youth healthful which refuses to be reconciled to old ways and which, foolishly or shrewdly, combats the old. This is nature’s charge and all progress hinges upon it.
-
Being around lots of people drains me, and alone time is essential to my well-being.
-
In this way my mother fell short as a parent, which was something I had to learn to accept because it's how she was, and either you accept people as they are or you turn your back on them and walk away. Those are the choices: forbearance or flight, although that philosophy was slow in coming to me, and for many years, I expected more from people than they could give.
-
In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
-
Maybe I will hire someone to make some belts for me. It's easier than fighting for them you know.
-
Medicare provided guaranteed equal coverage, something that the private sector could not.
