Ron Fournier Quotes

Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda.

Ron Fournier

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VictoryCongressPresidentFirstTwo

All writers start out mimicking other writers. I've never relinquished that. I have a good ear for speech and writing patterns.

Jesse Kellerman

GoodWritingStartSpeechNeverOut

Over a four-month period, I sat down and wrote every day. And then there was a novel, and all of a sudden, there were agents and offers.

Melissa Marr

DayEvery DayDownOverNovelEvery

In Europe, the director is the king: it's his vision. It's an auteur tradition.

Stellan Skarsgard

VisionKingTraditionDirectorHis

I thought I would be a guy on the radio.

Steven Wright

ThoughtRadioGuyWould

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Socrates

LivingMattersRightly

Vast volumes of mixed media surround us, from music to games and videos. Yet almost all of our online actions still begin and end with writing: text messages, status updates, typed search queries, comments and responses, screens packed with verbal exchanges and, underpinning it all, countless billions of words.

Tom Chatfield

MusicWordsWritingEndSearchText

I can't help but do things my own way.

Mat Kearney

HelpWayMy OwnOwnThings

I have a great career, and no matter what I am doing, a big blockbuster movie... or my small documentary, David Letterman will call and say I would like you to sit on my couch.

Rosie Perez

GreatI AmSmallDoingYouCareer

The user, not the ISP, should be the kingmaker of apps.

Marvin Ammori

UserShouldApps

Victorian racehorse owners frequently named their horses after murderers. That was so astonishing. Can you imagine the equivalent today, with a horse named, say, Boston Strangler, running in the Kentucky Derby? This was a new discovery. The Victorians didn't think it was odd, so no one ever mentioned it particularly.

Judith Flanders

TodayThinkHorseYouDiscoveryNew

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.

Jose Bergamin

DoubtPlaceBeliefSuperstition

Now, what we do in Hollywood, we don't cast for the role, we cast for the money, and that's where the real man gets lost.

Johnny Messner

MoneyManReal ManLostHollywood

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