Rick Nielsen Quotes

I just wanted to write about stuff that was happening in real life, and that's not just love songs about your girlfriend.

Rick Nielsen

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LifeLoveWriteRealGirlfriend

We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism.

John Blair

RoadsSocialismEndDownGoDead

I want to be the candidate placed on the ballot by the people, not the party.

Andrew Cuomo

PeoplePartyWantCandidateBallot

A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than that worn by the other members of our expedition.

Anatoli Boukreev

QualityDayBetterWillReviewHigh

There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.

John Mayer

NatureMusicSoulSometimesPop

I think when 'The Simpsons' first came on, there was an uproar. People got used to it. They realized the show's really funny, it's got a heart, so I think it's pretty safe.

Matt Groening

FunnyHeartPeopleThinkFirstSafe

It has become much more difficult to smuggle dangerous substances across our borders over the past three years, and this is creating real problems for drug traffickers.

John Walters

PastProblemsDangerousCreating

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Stephen Leacock

WorkGreatI AmLuckChanceFind

Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, said that Republicans' number one priority was the defeat of President Obama.

Steny Hoyer

LeaderDefeatSaidPresidentSenate

As a songwriter, if you can touch people and make them feel a little less alone in the world, then you've done your job.

Tom Cochrane

AloneJobPeopleWorldFeelYou

What was so extraordinary to me about going through this box of my mother's letters and diaries was meeting my mother not as my mother, but as a real person. And what breaks my heart is that I had no idea how self-aware she was and how protective of me she was.

Ruth Reichl

MotherHeartMeMeetingPersonShe

I think the most useful thing you can do as a writer is to reconstruct real life with all its color, hardship, joy, and intrigue. If you're interested in people, you honor them best, I think, by making the fullest possible picture of them. Your subjects may - and from my experience probably will - protest your portrait of them.

Rosemary Mahoney

LifeBestExperienceJoyPeople

Most people think of me as a makeup guru, but might be surprised to know I'm also a trained artist and a huge comic book fan.

Michelle Phan

PeopleMeMakeupBookThinkArtist

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