Jim Leach Quotes

Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.

Jim Leach

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NaturePoliticsBetterMomentsHigh

Surely it is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do.

Jhumpa Lahiri

TimeWordsPeopleSituationPerson

My biggest pet peeve are just girls who go to sports bars who have no intention on caring what teams are playing, like they're looking for just a night out. That drives me more crazy than anything else. Like, don't pretend to be a sports fan.

Jerry Ferrara

SportsPetCaringMeCrazyNight

The thing that I love about Rick Grimes is that he pulls himself off the canvas even when he has been pummeled to the ground so many times. And either he gets up by himself - he drags himself up - or he is helped up by loved ones around him.

Andrew Lincoln

LoveLovedHimCanvasGroundUp

To tell you the truth, in the old Jewish shtetls, if your husband died, sometimes they'd have you marry the brother, and my grandparents were actually stepbrother and stepsister.

Amy Heckerling

TruthBrotherHusbandYouSometimes

We know how to stop Ebola: by isolating and treating patients, tracing and monitoring their contacts, and breaking the chains of transmission.

Tom Frieden

StopKnowChainsMonitoringBreaking

I was a very scared child. Not, you know, not so much of life but of the demons that lurked in the dark. And horror movies terrified me. You know, I'd love watching them but then at night, I would just be up in sweats all night.

Jordan Peele

LifeLoveChildMeNightDemons

I found myself right in the middle of an absolute hotbed of Nazi intrigue. All the Jewish shops had 'Jude' daubed over the windows, and the Jews themselves were attacked.

Douglas Slocombe

MyselfWindowsRightOverJewish

As far as social media and all that, I understand connecting with fans on a different level, but I don't feel the need to open myself up to the opinion of everybody in the world with a phone or computer. I just don't get that, being connected to everybody on such a superficial level like that. It's not really for me.

Dean Ambrose

MyselfSocial MediaMeOpinionWorld

My family's lineage, we are warriors. The McGregor clan, we are warriors all through. We are famous all through the world for our fighting capabilities of all generations. So I have no doubt that's stood to me and that led me down this path and gave me what I have.

Conor McGregor

FamilyPathMeWorldFightingDoubt

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

Peter McWilliams

LifeWorkLoveRealityBlessings

Acting is a sport, like a game of tennis, and you and your opponent take turns setting the level of play.

Shawnee Smith

GameYouActingPlayTennisLevel

It's an honor to have kids. It's a responsibility.

Scottie Pippen

ResponsibilityHonorKids

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