Ken Lucas Quotes

The Bush administration also was not straightforward about the intelligence it had, releasing tenuous information that fit its goal of attacking Iraq. I feel deceived.

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• Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • Power
  • Political
  • Law

• I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Focus
  • Look
  • Looking Forward

• I was the first one to allow a projectile to come off of the stage and into the audience. And I kind of take responsibility for the mosh pit.

  

  Gallagher
  • Responsibility
  • Audience

• If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the election. It's just insane on its face.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Better
  • Face
  • Election

• The first thing I ever saw Bradley Cooper in was 'Wedding Crashers.'

  

  Ed Weeks
  • First
  • Wedding
  • Ever

• It is disheartening when you read an interview with an actress, and it starts by describing what she is wearing.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Actress
  • Interview
  • Wearing

• Bullying is something every kid in public, parochial, or private school has witnessed by graduation. While unfortunate, it is part of growing up.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Success
  • Child
  • Perseverance

• I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. It's like a cosmic do-over.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • God
  • Think
  • Me

• Kids flew B-17s in daylight bombing raids over Germany in World War II. Kids fought in Korea and Vietnam.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • World
  • Kids
  • War

• I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians.

  

  Owen Arthur
  • Politicians
  • Journalists

• You never really know baseball until you put on a pair of cleats and get out and play it; and if you play for five years, you still don't really know what it's about.

  

  Waite Hoyt
  • Know
  • Play
  • Baseball

• The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • True

• 'I think that the idea of straight edge, the song that I wrote, and the way people have related it it, there's some people who have abused it, they've allowed their fundamentalism to interfere with the real message, which in my mind, was that people should be allowed to live their lives the way they want to.' 4

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Live
  • Mind

• Mr. Jefferson meant the white race.

  

  Andrew Johnson

• 'I gather you were all too busy killing each other.''That’s a fairly reductive summary of our history, but I don’t suppose it’s too far from the truth.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Truth
  • History

• I don't like talking unnecessarily, and my communication skills are zilch. I just can't converse with people. Maybe it's because of my stuttering or stammering, but I'm not confident of talking with people. I only talk to very close friends and family.

  

  Pritam Chakraborty
  • People
  • Family
  • Friends

• Burleigh, absolutely; and a lot about Elizabeth. I mean I found when I play Henry V a lot of connections with the hidden history of the connection between Francis Bacon and Elizabeth.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • History
  • Connection

• Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.

  

  Jonathan Coe

• I think continually of those who were truly great . Who, from the womb, remembered the soul 's history Through corridors of light where the hours are suns , Endless and singing. Whose lovely ambition Was that their lips, still touched with fire , Should tell of the spirit clothed from head to foot in song .

  

  Stephen Spender
  • Soul
  • Song
  • Singing

• Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Money
  • Why
  • Know

• You have to accept the fact that not all your decisions are going to be right - and when they are wrong, you have to own it right away. I try not to have an emotional connection or investment in the decisions I make so that when they need to change, I can quickly move on to: 'How do we fix this?'

  

  Lynn Jurich
  • Emotional
  • Connection

• The First Amendment is not a blanket freedom-of-information act. The constitutional newsgathering freedom means the media can go where the public can, but enjoys no superior right of access.

  

  George Will
  • Enjoy
  • Amendments
  • Blanket

• The Bush administration also was not straightforward about the intelligence it had, releasing tenuous information that fit its goal of attacking Iraq. I feel deceived.

  

  Ken Lucas