Bill Haslam Quotes

Obviously, we have a political season in the United States, and there's always different winds that blow on that.

Bill Haslam

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PoliticalAlwaysWindsDifferent

I can be bolder on the page, as a character. I can gnash my teeth, I can scream and yell, in a way that I'm perhaps too timid to do in real life.

Jenny Offill

LifeCharacterI CanPageTeethWay

The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.

John Templeton

GodSeaThinkingWaveFindIdea

American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism.

John Updike

WorkArtWork EthicAmericanPlayful

The problem with the U.S. foreign policy is that we're just so unbelievably powerful. And when you've got that kind of power, it's very hard not to use it.

Stanley Hauerwas

PowerProblemYouPowerfulKindGot

My deep dark secret is that I was a nerd in school. I liked the theater. I liked to study. I wasn't very good at sports.

Rob Lowe

GoodSportsSchoolDeepDarkStudy

The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city.

Ruben Blades

LifeMotherCityProfessionalSongs

The knack is to find your own inspiration and take it on a journey to create work that is personal and revealing.

Martin Parr

WorkJourneyFindCreatePersonal

I think these al Qaeda franchise groups have clearly evolved into a much more dangerous strain.

Michael T. Flynn

ThinkDangerousMoreClearlyI Think

When I was younger, I actually wanted to be a CIA agent. Really. I even did the online questionnaire.

Lizzy Caplan

CIAEvenOnlineYoungerDidAgent

I'm petrified of bees because I have an anaphylactic reaction to bees.

Joyce Giraud

ReactionBecauseBeesPetrified

The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories that reach over half my lifetime, and a world of hope that stretches farther than any flight of sparrows.

Donald G. Mitchell

HopeMemoriesMomentMeWorldReach

But no, I love acting, it's a wonderful job.

Donald Sutherland

LoveJobActingWonderfulI Love

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