Ken Mehlman Quotes

I will always remember and we must all remember that Democrats are our political rivals, not our enemies, and they deserve our respect.

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• Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Life
  • Like
  • Winning

• I don't like the blame game, though.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Game
  • Like
  • Blame

• I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Career
  • Myself
  • Poetry

• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Literature
  • Reverence
  • Fatal

• I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Myself
  • Cool
  • Body

• We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Work
  • Long
  • War

• I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Bad
  • History
  • Think

• I always try to remain aware that what affects others affects me, too.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Me
  • Always
  • Try

• With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still young and can have the bright future they deserve.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Good
  • Children
  • Help

• I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Take
  • Normally

• A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Dark
  • Poem
  • Redeem

• Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Good
  • Real
  • Reality

• All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Heart
  • Path
  • Same

• All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Children
  • School

• My parents were really loving, open people to be around. I don't remember them ever telling me this profession is difficult. There was never, 'Uhhh, what else are you interested in?' They were just, 'Great. Done. Go for it.'

  

  Rachel Keller
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Wish
  • Privacy
  • I Wish

• The truth is, what Americans enjoy about football is much of what makes the sport dangerous. However, I believe there must be a way to find the art of success and vitality in football, without the driving the level of impact that causes serious risk of head trauma, paralysis and other life-changing injuries.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Art

• I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Up
  • Movies
  • Scary

• I do sometimes strongly hope that in a past life, my most recent life before this, I was absolutely horrible, evil, hideous. Because otherwise - well, hell, to even things up next time around, I'm going to have to pay for this one, am I not?

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Control
  • Choices
  • Wise

• remember to recognize the small successes that you will have. Don't let the brightness of that big goal blind you to what happens on the way toward the goal. Meet one wave at a time and enjoy what progress you make. I want you please not to be taken up in the undertow of pessimism.

  

  Lucille Ball
  • Up
  • Time
  • Remember

• To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Done
  • Art
  • True

• I will always remember and we must all remember that Democrats are our political rivals, not our enemies, and they deserve our respect.

  

  Ken Mehlman
  • Remember
  • Political
  • Respect