Cory Booker Quotes

The joke I always make is I'm either running for reelection, running for Senate, running for governor, or running for my life. The latter is also a viable possibility.

Cory Booker

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• I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I disagree. You need to write a lot in order to figure out what's good and what's crap.

  

  Nathaniel Rich
  • People
  • Good
  • Words

• I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Me
  • Hurt

• Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Attitude
  • Excellence
  • Skill

• There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Truth
  • Literary
  • Equivalent

• From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Time
  • Long
  • Together

• To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Light
  • Shadow
  • Candle

• I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Strong
  • Best
  • Vision

• I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Think
  • Me
  • Company

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Kids
  • Inspiration
  • Model

• Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Guy
  • Lost
  • Day

• My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Orphanage

• I definitely like wearing leotards.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Like
  • Definitely
  • Wearing

• I'm always drawing, so Draw Something is a cool game to play against your friends when you're bored and sat chilling out and relaxing.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Friends
  • Game
  • Cool

• Vikings were pretty brutal, but also very educated people. They were salesmen, businessmen who started raiding when business wasn't good. That's why they had such great boats.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• I go to my kids' sports games and don't have to carry the enormous burden of secrecy with me every day. However, adrenaline still courses through my body whenever I go through passport control to another country.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Country
  • Kids
  • Control

• It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see a woman who isn't frightened, who's giving birth without interference, you stand back in awe and realize how little needed you are except in the rare circumstance.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Giving
  • Woman
  • Stand

• I was profoundly moved to be the first United Nations Secretary-General to attend the Peace Memorial Ceremony in Hiroshima. I also visited Nagasaki. Sadly, we know the terrible humanitarian consequences from the use of even one weapon. As long as such weapons exist, so, too, will the risks of use and proliferation.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Long
  • Know
  • Peace

• I've had good times and bad times. That's me. That's how I am.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Times

• My family were pretty big hippies.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Big

• Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue (in the American, not the British, sense) as deep ultramarine, and its manners are studiously polite.

  

  Jonathan Raban
  • American
  • City
  • Deep

• The Jews' fear of assimilation and intermarriage should not replace fear of anti-Semitism.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Fear
  • Jews
  • Assimilation

• You accumulate emotional wisdom as you get older. You know, when you're 25, you go on blind dates with people that, when you're 50, you know to stay away from.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • People
  • Wisdom
  • Emotional

• The joke I always make is I'm either running for reelection, running for Senate, running for governor, or running for my life. The latter is also a viable possibility.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Life
  • Running
  • Senate