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Jacob K. Javits Quotes

My thinking is Lincolnian rather than Jeffersonian, Teddy Rooseveltian rather than Franklin D. Rooseveltian.

Jacob K. Javits

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: May 18, 1904 - March 7, 1986

Topics

Thinking Teddy Rather Than Franklin

A beam of luminous hydrogen canal rays has, owing to its velocity, exactly the same direction as that of the electric field in which it may be made to move.

Direction Same May Move Rays Made

I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me.

Past Me Lucky Over Years Things

You can never predict a hit.

You Predict Never Hit

I'm kind of a reluctant Anglophile. My mother's a children's librarian, and all of the children's literature I read was from her childhood - E. Nesbit and Dickens, which isn't children's literature at all, but I was sort of steeped in English literature. I thought I was of that world.

Mother Children Childhood World Kind

From losing my mom, I'll never be okay; I'll never be put together again.

Together Losing Mom Never Okay Put

Growing up on a dairy farm, you certainly learn discipline and a commitment to purpose.

Discipline Commitment Purpose Learn

Use God's word to acknowledge what He did for you.

God You Acknowledge Word He Did

I've always had a dog phobia.

Dog Always Phobia Had

Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word 'impossible' is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise.

Simple People Impossible American

I think making a great action movie is one of the hardest cinematic endeavors. By definition, smart characters avoid action. Smart people don't go down dark alleys, but if you're making an action movie and you want to have an action sequence, somehow you have to get that character into that dangerous situation.

Character Great Smart People Action

I always played hockey, I was always a hockey fan, but I was never bitten by the hockey bug... I never looked into playing it professionally.

Hockey Never Always Playing Bug Fan

Somewhere in the back of their minds, hosts and guests alike know that the dinner party is a source of untold irritation, and that even the dullest evening spent watching television is preferable.

Dinner Evening Back Television Party

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