John Sununu Quotes

After everyone has had a chance to bluster, posture, and pontificate, we are left with one basic question: under any foreseeable circumstance, would it be in our national interest to default on our debt? The answer is unequivocally no.

John Sununu

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ChanceDebtQuestionEveryoneAnswer

I need a consistency of my moods if there is to be any consistency in my style. I can't attempt to write always in the hollow flux of desperation and incipient terror.

Jim Carroll

StyleConsistencyNeedDesperation

I don't think I really realized what being an adult and being a real grownup was until I was at least twenty-eight.

Jodie Sweetin

ThinkRealAdultBeingLeastUntil

There is a need for a movement of non-violent direct action.

John Lewis

ActionNeedMovementDirect

All these dismal things that are going on in the world - the isolation and the sickness and the governments and the pollution - it's so frightful, over the whole world.

Merce Cunningham

WorldSicknessIsolationPollution

While some of the tales of woe emanating from the court are enough to bring tears to the eyes, it is true that only Supreme Court justices and schoolchildren are expected to and do take the entire summer off.

John Roberts

EyesTearsEnoughSummerTrueBring

I always feel that the book I'm working on is my last book.

Lorrie Moore

BookFeelAlwaysLastWorking

When I was a kid, I had a xylophone, and I thought that was the instrument I wanted to play. I didn't realize it was a toy.

Julia Holter

ThoughtPlayRealizeKidToyWanted

My mother always used to say, 'There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.'

Donald Freed

MotherPathPeaceSayAlwaysUsed

Artists thrive off each other, and when you see other people doing cool stuff, it inspires you to do cool stuff.

Courtney Barnett

PeopleCoolDoingThriveYouSee

Building a robot that has legs and walks around is a very expensive proposition. Mother Nature has created many wonderful things, but one thing we do have that nature doesn't is the wheel, a continuous rotating joint, and tracks, so we need to make use of inventions to make things simpler.

Colin Angle

NatureMotherBuildingWheelLegs

If you're going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you're going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation that's based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, you're down to about 10 people or so.

Branford Marsalis

PeopleMusiciansTryingYouDown

When the International Trade Centre, the agency I head, works with German electronics giant Bosch to help Kenyan food processing companies boost their productivity and export competitiveness, we may well be creating future customers for Bosch washing machines.

Arancha Gonzalez

FutureFoodHelpCreatingHeadMay

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