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Allyson Schwartz Quotes

The United States must also continue to push the United Nations Security Council for strong action to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions. In the meantime, it is our job to take meaningful steps to eliminate the threats posed by Iran.

Allyson Schwartz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: October 3, 1948

Topics

Job Action Strong Push Security

My great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery, and they survived the war, thank goodness. So I revere what they did. I think their motivations were honorable when they undertook the war and participated in it along with other Southerners.

Jimmy Carter

War Think Goodness Two Gettysburg

A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.

John Grogan

Education Dog Good Child Gift Give

When I started working in fashion, I didn't have money to buy photographs, so I'd Xerox pictures from magazines and put them in notebooks. When I'd start a collection, I'd sit with my old notebooks and look through them for inspiration.

John Varvatos

Money Fashion Start Look Pictures

Anything that I'm naturally curious about, I get really into. Maybe it's O.C.D. I get really consumed by something until I absorb it, then I'm done with it.

Sturgill Simpson

Curious Done Anything Something Get

There were no examples of girls like myself becoming successful actresses. To be an actress in England was a serious, upper-middle class girl's profession. I just thought I would never be accepted unless I pretended to become somebody I wasn't.

Tracey Ullman

Girl Myself Thought Serious Become

My whole interest in food grew from my interest in gardens and the question of how we engage with the natural world. To go back even further, I got interested in gardens because I was interested in nature and wilderness and Thoreau and Emerson.

Michael Pollan

Nature Food World Wilderness Back

I'm not jumping into anything fast. I'm an actor that likes to choose my work and there's an element of good taste to my work.

Luke Ford

Work Good Choose Fast Actor Taste

I rarely step on sidewalk cracks. I don't wear a watch. I touch my favorite tree before going on long trips.

Louise Erdrich

Tree Step Long Touch Wear Going

You seize sentiment better when you get clear of nature. You breathe it in every sense!

Jules Verne

Nature Better You Breathe Seize Get

I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later.

Joni Mitchell

Think Way Heroes Paint Modern Well

A theme I'm obsessed with is the tension between human nature and the frameworks designed to curb the worst and promote the best of it.

Douglas Brunt

Nature Best Human Nature Worst Human

One of the reasons I'm excited by what visionary Elon Musk has done with the Tesla is to show that you can reduce global warming and drive a powerful, fun car. A cool car helps make a cooler planet.

Dean Ornish

Car Fun Cool Drive You Powerful