Edmund S. Muskie Quotes

In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.

Edmund S. Muskie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 28, 1914 - March 26, 1996

Topics

AngerProcessPoliticalBecomeHeat

There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.

Jerzy Kosinski

ActionParticipationActiveWithout

If you combine good flavors, food turns into an orchestra.

Joey Fatone

GoodFoodYouOrchestraFlavors

Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to LA. And I thought - I want to sell out!

Jennifer Tilly

New YorkThoughtYouNewSaidWant

After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair of khaki dungarees with one of my Dad's Army shirts, accessorised by a cat's basket doubling as a handbag. Very Lady Gaga.

Jenny Eclair

SchoolArmyLadyEarlyDramaCat

Men are both bad and awful. And women are both bad and awful. And they can both be good and wonderful on both sides.

Andrew Haigh

GoodWomenMenBadSidesBoth Sides

I have to be more modest now that I'm a mama, but I loved those days when I could really wear what I wanted to. I do love crazy shoes and clothes. But I mean, come on, I'm 38, so even if I like a dress of Betsey Johnson, I have to say, 'Stop it. Go for Chanel!'

Anna Netrebko

LoveShoesDressCrazyLovedStop

Old friends are best.

John Selden

BestOld FriendsFriendsOld

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

Stephen Carter

LiveBlackAmericaIntellectualBox

A song has a life of its own. It's an autonomous thing, separate from your own experience, almost. And the mere repetition of it means it's subject to change; it means approaching it differently, expressing different emotional aspects of it. It doesn't feel like wallowing.

St. Vincent

LifeChangeExperienceSongFeel

There was no way we were going to let this band hobble around on three legs. We chose the route that every professional actor, athlete and musician should do - leave the legend intact and bow out at the top.

Tommy Lee

LegendProfessionalThreeActorWay

We are a nation of immigrants. We are the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the ones who wanted a better life, the driven ones, the ones who woke up at night hearing that voice telling them that life in that place called America could be better.

Mitt Romney

LifeChildrenNightVoiceBetter

I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.

Lorna Luft

LifePastPainMeShadowsOut

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