John Sarbanes Quotes

This fundraising is consuming us. It's impossible to overstate, I think, what it's doing to members and their ability to just focus on the job that they were elected to do. The collective concentration of the institution is being undermined every day by the need to fund-raise.

John Sarbanes

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FocusDayJobImpossibleThinkNeed

There were evictions that I saw that I know I'll never forget. In one case, the sheriff and the movers came up on a house full of children. The mom had passed away, and the children had just gone on living there. And the sheriff executed the eviction order - moved the kids' stuff out on the street on a cold, rainy day.

Matthew Desmond

ChildrenDayMomColdNever Forget

'Rocket Science' is really where I fell in love with filmmaking, I think 'Camp' was incredible, but it was so bizarre, and I was trying to find my footing in this world where you don't have an audience for immediate validation.

Anna Kendrick

LoveScienceWorldThinkTryingYou

My mother and my father have always supported me. Now in their eighties, they actually clamor onto the tour bus with me once or twice a year so they can watch the performances and hear the crowds. Traveling with eighty-something-year-olds on a tour bus... there has to be some sort of reality show in that.

Jeff Dunham

FatherMotherMeRealityYearNow

We had all these things to deal with - houses full of people and John going to jail, guys from New York saying 'don't worry about anything.' So it was really confusing.

Michael Davis

New YorkPeopleSayingWorryNew

When patronised, I'm unfortunately more flight than fight. Perhaps it's because I actually feel quite wounded.

Stella Young

FightFeelFlightMoreBecauseThan

Pop culture is a huge strategy for WWE: our storylines are reflective of what's happening in the world and what's popular.

Stephanie McMahon

CultureWorldStrategyPop Culture

Both my parents are first-generation success stories.

Solange Knowles

SuccessParentsStoriesBoth

Those damn Moomins. I don't want to hear about them any more. I could vomit on the Moomintrolls.

Tove Jansson

WantDamnMoreVomitHearThose

Crony capitalism is not capitalism - it is cronyism.

Rupert Murdoch

Capitalism

For this reason poets and artists developed the doctrine of Art for Art's Sake. The community did not appear to need them, so, tit for tat, they did not need the community. This being granted, it was no longer necessary or even desirable to make one's poetry either intelligible or sympathetic to the community.

Louis MacNeice

CommunityArtPoetryNeedReason

A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

Joseph Stalin

WaterIronSincereDryLikeWooden

Loss is part of life. If you don't have loss, you don't grow.

Dominick Cruz

LifeGrowLossYouPart

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