Beau Willimon Quotes

I was always a writer - working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV - that was always my goal.

Beau Willimon

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MeWritingPoliticalGoalNever

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

John Atkinson

LifeYouRunWillOwnYour

I would rather be an independent senator, governed by my own views, going for the good of the country, uncontrolled by any thing which mortal man can bring to bear upon me, than to be president of the United States, put there as presidents of the United States have been for many years past.

John C. Calhoun

GoodPastManMeCountryMy Own

If I had a nickel for every time I said 'Why me?' I'd have probably said 'Why me?' more often.

Tom Wilson

TimeMeSaidWhyMoreNickel

I don't want to live with the guilt of messing up someone's retirement fund.

Romesh Wadhwani

LiveRetirementSomeoneGuiltWant

The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology.

Jayne Ann Krentz

WorldNegativePhilosophySociology

The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.

Josh Billings

PeopleTroubleKnowMuch

You better be very convinced, very sure, before you pull your plug or someone else's plug, that you know what's on the other side of the gravestone.

Joni Eareckson Tada

BetterSomeoneYouKnowSideSure

I love competing so much.

Chloe Kim

LoveCompetingMuchI Love

I tend to be freer on the piano. I never took guitar lessons, so my reach exceeds my grasp - what I hear in my head I don't always know how to play. But I love to play over something else. I'm not a self-starter. I get kind of bored with the same three folk chords that I know.

Bonnie Raitt

LoveGuitarReachPlayKnowThree

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.

Anne Sullivan

I AmKnowMeetDifficultiesExplain

Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes.

Annette Funicello

Growing UpGrowingSometimesHardUp

There's something missing about how we're informing the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the numbers and the letters, but we fail to communicate the importance of our connection to the living world.

Sylvia Earle

WorldConnectionNumbersLivingFail

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