Jeff Bezos Quotes

Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.

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• Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • War
  • Dog
  • Legal

• Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Future
  • Motivational
  • Now

• Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Health
  • Serious
  • Gun

• I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Age
  • Young
  • Vacuum

• I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Rock
  • Jesus
  • Roll

• Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Teaching
  • Distraction

• Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Age
  • Colonial

• R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Job
  • Father

• I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Unique
  • Youth
  • Million

• Free-diving is all about being lean, being super-flexible, and having a good breath hold.

  

  Tanc Sade
  • Good
  • Free
  • Being

• I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • America
  • Past
  • Month

• I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • America
  • True
  • Realize

• Acting is something I did when I was a kid. I do act sometimes in friends' projects, but when I do, it's just for fun. It is actually a hobby for me now. I do still love stage acting, but the day-to-day process of being an actor is so exhausting and so taxing.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Friends
  • Fun
  • Actor

• Women hold up half the sky.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Up
  • Women
  • Sky

• I'm a huge fan of good, procedural-type shows on television... there are a lot of roles for women. But there aren't a lot of great network television roles for girls that will let you start a character in one place and finish up with her in a totally different one.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Family
  • Mom
  • Emotional

• It's very hard for me to find any sort of shame or blame in my life. I'm not made that way.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Blame

• Sports are my favorite. It's the first thing I turn to every day.

  

  Larry King
  • Day
  • Sports
  • Everyday

• Every time you get into a new job, new location, you have an amazing opportunity in front of you. You get to play dumb for as long as people will allow you to play dumb. You get to ask all the dumb questions, you get to ask multiple people the dumb questions, and you get to make mistakes. That's how you stand out in the crowd.

  

  Gary Cohn
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• It does seem to me, though, that there is a difference between the Mormon Church saying, "We don't accept gay people within the Church; we don't accept gay marriage within the Church; we don't accept people who act on their homosexual desires within the Church;" and trying to interfere with what happens outside of the Church. That seemed to me to be an abomination.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Trying
  • Desire

• I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• I just think I have too much anxiety to listen to music. Sometimes it feels like noise, and sometimes it's so affecting that I can't recover from it.

  

  SZA
  • Music
  • Anxiety

• You know the old adage that the customer's always right? Well, I kind of think that the opposite is true. The customer is rarely right.

  

  Charlie Trotter
  • True

• Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • People
  • Cultures