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John Conyers Quotes

If we want to build the Iraqis' confidence about our intentions in their country, if we want to stop adding fuel to the fire of insurgency and terrorism, we must clarify our intent.

John Conyers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: May 16, 1929

Topics

Confidence Fire Country Stop Want

You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.

Joan Didion

Decision You Right Anything Sure

Don't do things just to impress others or just because you're scared you won't have any friends.

Andreja Pejic

Friends You Just Because Impress Any

We're such a funky species. We're so violent, so greedy - this is how we roll. But what are we going to do about it? How do we move forward given who we are? Because situations don't come out of nothing. They come out of certain conditions.

Jeff Bridges

Forward Nothing Greedy Out Going

They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence.

Sholom Aleichem

Children Men Say Become They Say Up

I heard a young black pianist. He was a teenager, I was eight years old, and he was playing boogie-woogie, and he just knocked me out. He thought he was alone in the old barn on the beat-up upright piano, but I was hiding in the corner so he wouldn't see me.

Mike Stoller

Alone Me Black Thought Young See

I must warn you right here and now that I am a 'wet leftie,' a 'leftist' and also a member of the 'bleeding heart liberal left.' I had no say in it whatsoever. I woke up one morning, and these things were tattooed across my forehead.

Michael Leunig

Morning Heart I Am You Now Say

'Sons of Anarchy' has the perfect combination of character and action.

Christopher Golden

Character Action Perfect Anarchy

Poverty is just a word. I mean, how do you dismantle capitalism? It's through small actions. It's through breaking down poverty as a lived experience of not enough food, of your health not being good. So those are things that we can actually work on without ever having to call a politician.

Sunil Yapa

Work Good Health Food Experience

When I was 12 or 13, my dad taught me a couple of different chords, and once I learned chords, I never learned to read music, but I learned tablature, like a lot of kids do, and I learned songs that had the chords I knew. It took me a long time to understand the upstroke of picking and strumming, but once I did, it all fell into place.

Thomas Rhett

Music Time Me Long Place Long Time

Everywhere you look, there's a hunger to put the ethos by which Wall Street thrives on trial.

Tina Brown

You Look Wall Street Hunger Trial

Every rippling muscle is a book not read, a movie not seen, or a conversation not held.

Richard Cohen

Book Conversation Muscle Seen Read

I'm addicted to New York, and I like L.A., as I have kids there. Sometimes I think New Mexico is the one place where I could almost live there. It helps your acting; there's magic in that place.

Mark Margolis

Live New York Think Magic Acting