Cory Booker Quotes

I still have that new senator smell.

Cory Booker

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• You graduate from film school and move to Hollywood. Hollywood tells you, 'We're not the place for you to make films,' so you decide you have to make a film yourself.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • School
  • Yourself
  • Hollywood

• You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • True
  • Me
  • Idea

• To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman

• Life is too short to pursue every human act to its most remote consequences; 'for want of a nail, a kingdom was lost' is a commentary on fate, not the statement of a major cause of action against a blacksmith.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • Life
  • Action
  • Lost

• What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title - whether it's 'black actor,' a 'gay actor' or anything actor.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Job
  • Black
  • Stop

• What you find with singers, no matter where they're from, if they have any kind of an accent, the accent tends to disappear when they sing.

  

  Jason Alexander

• I have a family I love. They tend to say, 'Great job!' Or 'You work really hard! Good for you!' Or 'You look nice today!' Or 'Don't be ridiculous, order the fries!' Or 'You are hilarious.' That's all the family I need.

  

  Sia LSD
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• My son is very into music and really familiar with my voice.

  

  Jennifer Hudson
  • Music
  • Son

• O'Malley wanted to move the Dodgers out of Brooklyn because he saw the promised land. He was right about that, but to this day I think he was wrong to take the Dodgers out of Brooklyn.

  

  Jerry Reinsdorf

• When I'm not on tour, I love to have a long breakfast at home in my garden.

  

  Andre Rieu
  • Long
  • Home
  • Garden

• It is too bad that the public expects from me, always, perfection which it is impossible for me always to attain. I am not a machine. I am a human being.

  

  Enrico Caruso
  • Bad

• The story of cats is a story of meat.

  

  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

• I guess I fell into cooking.

  

  Bobby Flay
  • Cooking

• When your rainy day fund is so big you've got to check it for swimming cartoon ducks, you might not be a non-profit anymore.

  

  John Oliver
  • Swimming

• If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Life

• I had a fun high school experience. We had a big old prom, we had 400 kids in the graduating class and everything. It was a fun night. I enjoyed the limo ride there the most. Me and a couple friends riding with their dates, everyone was all dressed up, and I was into it, the energy and the anticipation of that entire experience.

  

  Jonathan Keltz
  • Up
  • School
  • Experience

• Hopefully, ... as we go here in preseason, we'll get in groove with our whole offense.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Team
  • Training
  • Offense

• We didn't have an indigenous Taliban before 2008. We didn't have a war in Swat before 2008, we didn't have a war in Waziristan. We never, in our 63-year history, we have never allowed unmanned Predator drones from ANY country to fly over our skies and kill our citizens.

  

  Fatima Bhutto
  • Country
  • War
  • Citizens

• The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.

  

  Benigno Aquino III
  • Crime
  • Messages
  • Commit

• Senator [Stephen] Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for years past, have been looking upon him as certainly, at no distant day, to be the President of the United States. They have seen in his round, jolly, fruitful face, post offices, land offices, marshalships, and cabinet appointments, chargeships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Party
  • President
  • Senator

• When I was a Senator from New York, I represented and worked with so many talented principled people who made their living in finance. But even thought I represented them and did all I could to make sure they continued to prosper, I called for closing the carried interest loophole and addressing skyrocketing CEO pay. I also was calling in '06, '07 for doing something about the mortgage crisis, because I saw every day from Wall Street literally to main streets across New York how a well-functioning financial system is essential.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • New York
  • Finance

• Personal hatreds and rivalry loomed larger in most senator's minds than the good of the Republic.

  

  Adrian Goldsworthy
  • Senator
  • Rivalry
  • Hatreds

• I still have that new senator smell.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Senator