Ran Quotes - Page 33

• I was always accused of being too stiff. In 1974, when I ran my first primary race for state rep, I was chief aide to the speaker of the House, I knew the issues and understood state government. But what I found out the hard way is that you can know all the ins and outs but people want to know you, your family.

  Jim Edgar

  Issues, Race, Government

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• Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the weird kid who's seen 'Jaws' 55 times.

  Victor Salva

  Movie, Summer, Kids

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• [His mind] was like a volcano, full of fire and wealth, sometimes calm, often dazzling and playful, but ever threatening. It ran swift as the lightning from one subject to another, and occasionally burst forth in passionate throes of intellect, nearly allied to madness.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Fire, Volcanoes, Mind

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• The only thing I ran into is that I am a wanderlust, as far as travel and adventure. I will go off on any given moment with the family and friends to explore the world. I go around the world once a year. I go to Africa, you know, Russia, wherever... I love it.

  John Travolta

  Adventure, Russia, Years

  "Tim Allen, John Travolta, William H. Macy and Martin Lawrence Interviewed - 'Wild Hogs'". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 28, 2007.

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• My plan is to bring back like the Bracero Program from 1944 that ran for 20 years where the Mexican government vets these people. I mean, they pay for it, and they get green cards, and they're actually legitimate. And then seal the border.

  Kinky Friedman

  Mean, Government, Years

  "Kinky Friedman Talks with Bill O'Reilly About Why He Wants to be Governor of Texas". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. March 15, 2005.

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• My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Gathering, Wool, My Thoughts

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.673, Wordsworth Editions

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• The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones, and the age of oil won’t end because we run out of oil.

  Ahmed Zaki Yamani

  Age, Investing, Stones

  "The Case for Fossil Fuel Divestment" by Bevis Longstreth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2014.

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• There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the place of their self-content; There are souls like stars that dwell apart, In a fellowless firmament; There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths Where highways never ran,-- But let me live by the side of the road, And be a friend to man.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Stars, Men, Self

  "The House by the Side of the Road" l. 7 (1898)

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• The principal problem I had during the five years I ran the Caisse - and I bet you that it will be the same problem for my successor - is the retention, recruitment and training of competent personnel.

  Henri Rousseau

  Leadership, Years, Training

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• I think no more than a week after I started writing I ran into the first block. It's hard to describe it in a way that will be understandable to anyone who is not a neurotic.

  Tennessee Williams

  Block, Writing, Thinking

  Tennessee Williams (2008). “Sweet Bird of Youth”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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• Few cultures have not produced the idea that in some past era the world ran better than it does now.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Past, Ideas, Doe

  Elizabeth Janeway (1971). “Man's World Woman's Place”

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• If I actually ran the world, I'd do it from the kitchen. It's not anything deliberate or a statement or anything, that's just how I understand things. It's arranged along informal lines.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Kitchen, World, Lines

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• Abortion, however, is a big threshold issue for me because the dominant majority of people in my state are pro-choice. I ran as a pro-choice Democrat, and she fills Sandra Day O'Connor's shoes, and they are critical shoes.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Shoes, Issues, People

  "New Questions on Miers' Roe Views / She Reportedly Says She Doesn't Recall Ever Discussing Case" by Carolyn Lochhead, www.sfgate.com. October 18, 2005.

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• The reason the world is in the spot it's in is because North Korea entered into an agreement and then did not keep up their terms of the agreement. They received aid in return for promising not to develop nuclear weapons. They took the aid, they ran with the aid and then they developed a nuclear weapons anyway.

  Ari Fleischer

  Agreement, Korea, Nuclear

  "Powell sees no progress from North Korean proposal", www.cnn.com. April 29, 2003.

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• I don't think there is room for 'artistic temperament.' Professional artists understand art is a business. If businesses ran their companies like many artists do their careers, they would not stay open a year.

  Jack White

  Art, Business, Thinking

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• If I could tell you only one thing about my life, it would be this: When I was 7 years old, the mailman ran over my head.

  Brady Udall

  Years, Would Be, Seven

  "The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint: A Novel". Book by Brady Udall, www.npr.org. 2001.

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• I was Christmas shopping and ran into a guy on the street. I noticed his watch and said that it runs slow. He said, "So does the guy I stole it from."

  David Letterman

  Christmas, Running, Shopping

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• I ran into the gigantic and gigantically wasteful lumbering of great Sequoias, many of whose trunks were so huge they had to be blown apart before they could be handled. I resented then, and I still resent, the practice of making vine stakes hardly bigger than walking sticks out of these greatest of living things.

  Gifford Pinchot

  Science, Practice, Walking Sticks

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• Newt Gingrich says he wants to get rid of Social Security. Who is more qualified to give this country financial advice than a guy who ran up a half-million dollar bill at Tiffany?

  David Letterman

  Country, Giving, Guy

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• I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

  Akhmad Kadyrov

  Family, Religious, Age

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• Number one way life would be different if dogs ran the world: All motorists must drive with head out window.

  David Letterman

  Funny, Dog, Travel

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• I sometimes think we ought to bring a bill before Congress changing our national symbol from the eagle to the buffalo, because we are more like the buffalo than the eagle. The eagle is a powerful bird. It flies alone. It rises up into the sky with authority. It is master of all it surveys. The eagle is an individualist and was selected from among the rest of the birds to be our symbol. But the buffalo was never alone. It always ran in a herd with other buffaloes. And, friends, I call your attention that the buffaloes are gone from the open range, but the eagles are still soaring.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Powerful, Thinking, Eagles

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• I ran because I became convinced after King was shot and killed, and Martin Luther King was one of the great heroes of my life, that politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live. If we don't like how we live, we can participate in the perfect most revolutionary act in a democracy, it's called voting.

  Maynard Jackson

  Kings, Hero, Mean

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• When he ran from a cop, his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to flogged-piston sprint . . . were as distinct and as soberly in order as an automatic gearshift.

  James Agee

  Order, Transition, Cop

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• During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though still visible, and this year it has provided abundant pasture, more than in any year since we have owned it. But to make it as good as it is now has taken 17 years. If I had been a millionaire or if my family had been starving, it would still have taken 17 years. It can be better than it is now, but that will take longer. For it to live fully in its own responsibility, as it did before bad use ran it down, may take hundreds of years.

  Wendell Berry

  Taken, Responsibility, Years

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