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Alan K. Simpson Quotes

There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.

Alan K. Simpson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: September 2, 1931

Topics

Step People Staircase American Loss

When you reach my age, you understand that you are a player with skin in the game, no matter what game it is.

Jerry Weintraub

Age Game Reach You Skin Understand

What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being.

Jeanette Winterson

Well-Being Invisible Own Us Our

The American war of 1861-65 is recent enough to be embedded still in cultural memory.

Amanda Foreman

War Memory American Enough Still

I am not a snowflake. I am not a sweet, infantilising symbol of fragility and life. I am a strong, fierce, flawed adult woman. I plan to remain that way, in life and in death.

Stella Young

Life Woman Death I Am Sweet Fierce

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Sigmund Freud

Time Angry Person Civilization Rock

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

Michel de Montaigne

Youth Legal You Liberty Will Gentle

I get a lot of recognition for my voice. That always surprises me.

Moira Kelly

Me Voice Recognition Surprises Get

My mother loved Gene Wilder when I was growing up, so I used to watch all his movies with her. I just adore him.

Lucy Punch

Mother Growing Up Loved Growing Him

My family has always supported me a thousand percent. My sister once sold her jewelry so I could pay for gas money to get up to New York for a show. And that's amazing. But you get too much of that, you start depending on it.

Jay Pharoah

Family Money New York Amazing Sister

Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.

Don Rickles

Life Business My Life Insurance Kid

Right now, I'm very healthy. I have no vices left. Except sugary breakfast cereal. And absinthe, of course.

Johnny Galecki

Breakfast Healthy Now Right Vices

I wasn't a person who hated working. When I was working and training, I loved it. I loved that I had to work that hard. I think it transformed into the gym and then transformed into the octagon. It was a good thing.

Demetrious Johnson

Work Good Training Think Loved Gym