David Brooks Quotes

When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.

David Brooks

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CharacterPoliticsIdeasYouWay

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

Joe Paterno

ConfidenceHabitLosingYouLose

I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.

Joanna Newsom

I AmTryingSoundMakeAfricanAm

I deal with gay and black conservatives who don't want to be called Uncle Toms of their politically correct Marxist multi-cultural unit structure. And they come to me saying, 'What can I do?' And I say, 'Lay low.'

Andrew Breitbart

MeSayingBlackUncleGayWant

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Ronald Reagan

TimeBrokenLawSocietyAmerican

Every single day, I'm curious about everything. Curiosity is finding answers to things.

Mickey Drexler

DayCuriousCuriosityFindingSingle

I think there's a passion for God like never before.

Michael W. Smith

PassionGodThinkNeverLikeBefore

Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short plays were so accessible to younger people and I think that was inspirational to me.

Mindy Kaling

InspirationalSchoolPeopleCollege

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

Josh Billings

LearningWisdomAwakeWideSleeps

In the first place, it's surreal to watch filming, to see the little ideas you had in your head and now Taylor Kitsch is doing it, or Salma Hayek. And then to see it loud and bright onscreen is a trip.

Don Winslow

IdeasDoingYouPlaceNowBright

My priorities were taking the kids to school and being a mum and being a daughter and being a sister. Just spending a lot of that time with my family that I'd probably lost a lot of, touring with the Cranberries.

Dolores O'Riordan

FamilyDaughterTimeSchoolSister

MMA - for me, it was something that I needed to challenge myself.

Bobby Lashley

MyselfChallengeMeMMASomething

I was never a wallflower - I put my head on the style chopping block.

Boy George

StyleNeverHeadBlockChoppingPut

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