Eliot Spitzer Quotes

When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world.

Eliot Spitzer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: lawyer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 10, 1959

Topics

FreedomWorldTolerancePrinciples

You try to do the best with what you've got and ignore everything else. That's why horses get blinders in horse racing: You look at the horse next to you, and you lose a step.

Jimmy Iovine

BestStepIgnoreRacingHorseLook

I'm a very lazy, stay-at-home kind of girl.

Jerry Hall

GirlLazyKindStay-At-HomeVery

Below-target inflation increases the real value of debts owed by households and businesses and reduces the ability of central banks to respond to downturns.

Jerome Powell

ValueRealAbilityRespondInflation

You can never tell what ships are worth.

Stavros Niarchos

WorthYouNeverTellShips

There's something inimical about the camera and song.

Stephen Sondheim

SongCameraSomethingAbout

I would always stand up for women, but I don't want women's rights and all that sort of thing. I love to have men around, and I suppose if you're a true feminist, you get on and do it yourself. I love it when someone says, 'I'll get your coat' or, 'I'll look after you', or offers you a seat on the bus. I'm thrilled to bits. I'm not a feminist.

Mary Berry

LoveWomenMenYourselfStand Up

Europe is weird songs that would never make it in America.

Mike Myers

WeirdAmericaNeverEuropeWould

The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for.

Liv Ullmann

SuccessKnowledgeBestLongNothing

The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.

Jonathan Lethem

GoodBlack And WhitePoliticsBlack

They use all of the music that I did in the '50s, '60s and the '70s behind people like Tupac and LL Cool J. I'm into all that stuff.

Donald Byrd

MusicPeopleCoolBehindLikeStuff

The connection to place, to the land, the wind, the sun, stars, the moon... it sounds romantic, but it's true - the visceral experience of motion, of moving through time on some amazing machine - a few cars touch on it, but not too many compared to motorcycles. I always felt that any motorcycle journey was special.

Antoine Predock

StarsJourneyTimeRomanticSun

I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community and being alone, and it's the best of both possible worlds.

Ariel Dorfman

CommunityAloneBestBeing Alone

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