Bill Nelson Quotes

The way I approach an election, I assume nothing. I run scared as a jackrabbit.

Bill Nelson

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ElectionRunNothingWayScared

Some people see writing as a white-collar career, but I've always approached it as a blue-collar writer.

Joe R. Lansdale

PeopleWritingCareerSome People

Unlike the U.S., Iran has no problems with low-voter turnout in elections; the last time, the government got the support of 110 per cent of the population.

Maz Jobrani

TimeGovernmentSupportProblemsGot

We must, we must cut the EPA's legs off. I hate to say that, because it sounds rotten, but they are choking this country to death with legislating through the bureaucracy in Washington.

Stephen Fincher

HateDeathCountrySayWashington

The logical process will often be the safe one. I tend, when I'm given that choice, to go the way that's not safe.

Sting

ProcessChoiceGoWillWaySafe

When I turned 35, I thought, 'Mozart was dead at 36, so I set the bar: I'm going to start writing a book on my next birthday.' I thought historical fiction would be easiest because I was a university professor and know my way around a library, and it seemed easier to look things up than make them up.

Diana Gabaldon

BirthdayWritingStartBookLibrary

I was convinced that eventually I would die of heart disease, that we'd run out of time and out of treatment, the technology wouldn't keep ahead of my disease. And now all of the sudden, when you get the new heart, your life opens up before you again.

Dick Cheney

LifeTechnologyHeartTimeDieYou

I try to have each book be an antidote to the one before.

Colson Whitehead

BookTryBeforeAntidoteEach

Sometimes, I am also identified as a civil rights leader or a human rights activist. I would also like to be thought of as a complex, three-dimensional, flesh-and-blood human being with a rich storehouse of experiences, much like everyone else, yet unique in my own way, much like everyone else.

Coretta Scott King

LeaderI AmRichThoughtUniqueWay

The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.

Bonnie Raitt

BusinessMusicBluesDifficultMade

I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated.

Brian P. Cleary

LoveGracefulSophisticatedI Love

In this universe, and this existence, where we live with this duality of whether we exist or not and who are we, the stories we tell ourselves are the stories that define the potentialities of our existence. We are the stories we tell ourselves.

Shekhar Kapur

LiveUniverseExistenceTellDefine

Museums are like the quiet car of the world. It's a place you can come to escape, where there's authenticity, there's uniqueness, there's calm, there's physicality.

Thomas P. Campbell

CarWorldCalmYouQuietPlace

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