Jim Cooper Quotes

The real problem with big issues like Medicare is that both parties have to be brave at the same time. Every pollster will tell you not to do that to get partisan advantage. Too many people here are willing to deliberately harm the country for partisan gain. That is borderline treason.

Jim Cooper

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TimePeopleBraveProblemYouWill

I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.

John Cleese

TalentGameBetterRulesI CanWant

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Andrew Carnegie

PowerYourselfControlYouBorn

Look at where Jesus went to pick people. He didn't go to the colleges; he got guys off the fishing docks.

Jeff Foxworthy

FishingPeopleLookGoWhereOff

Most people learn all about the Second World War in school, or else, they see so many films put out by Hollywood, that it's easy to think we know exactly what happened.

Jeff Shaara

SchoolWarPeopleWorldThinkLearn

My mother's sister married a man from Barbados, and my cousins were raised in Barbados. So we traveled down there, they came up every summer for camp, and I started paying attention to their music. And that was the first place I ever remember hearing reggae and liking it.

Matisyahu

MotherMusicManSisterRemember

I'm very conscious of people having pretty short attention spans: I know, I'm guilty of it. I'm 17 now: what happens by the time I'm 21, am I a burn-out or something? Will they still listen to my record?

Lorde

TimePeopleShortAttentionGuilty

The Lord doesn't care at all if we spend our days working in marble halls or stable stalls. He knows where we are, no matter how humble our circumstances. He will use - in His own way and for His holy purposes - those who incline their hearts to Him.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

HumbleCareCircumstancesWayMatter

In my first book, 'Ghosts Of Manhattan,' the setting was Wall Street, and I explored the predictable nature of a bond trader inside the compensation scheme at Bear Stearns and the government regulations of Wall Street. That was about money.

Douglas Brunt

NatureMoneyGovernmentBookBond

A round of golf is the ideal antidote to stress.

Bruce Forsyth

StressGolfRoundIdealAntidote

I don't know whether endurance sports attract obsessional people, or training for endurance sports makes people obsessional... it's the chicken and the egg.

Alistair Brownlee

SportsTrainingPeopleEggEndurance

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

William Hazlitt

TiredGrowOthersEverythingTurning

You don't have to convince Muslims of God's existence or importance.

Peter Kreeft

GodYouExistenceConvinceMuslims

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