25 Great Motivational Quotes About Success
| Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so. |
| The issues and challenges surrounding nuclear non-proliferation are continuously evolving. They’ve changed dramatically at several junctures in recent memory. |
| There was a Republican majority of the Senate, and it tempered the nature of the nominations being made. |
| With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self-consciousness were born. I desired to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books. |
| Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps. |
| You can’t walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values. |
| Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man. |
| In the past few years, I have begun the process of becoming a new man. |
| To get where you want to go you can’t only do what you like. |
| Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career. |
| You can’t beat somebody with nobody. |
| Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused. |
| They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business. |
| If I read the articles about me, and I didn’t know myself, I would think I was Satan. |
| I did this within a philosophical framework and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying. |
| This is really high on the priority list of tribal concerns. This is a cash cow in many circumstances, and tribes are concerned about the protection of tribal assets. |
| I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful. I can only hope that the Almighty and those whom I have wronged will forgive me my trespasses. |
| As a result, I’ve been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend. |
| My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, and some Queen – I love all of them. I love singing to them because they’re all just great voices. I love listening to very obscure jazz. |
| If my life was a song it would be ‘Who Let The Dogs Out’. |
| There’s got to be a backbone, there’s got to be a skeleton to the whole way I perform, but you never want to hit the same note twice during a performance, I think. I think it’s always got to be fresh so it doesn’t bore me, and I always want to go out on edge. |
| CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believed that there was a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn’t work for the police and that people who speak to Dan Rather understand that he’s a journalist and not a police agent. |
| You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they’ve never heard. |
| If you’re a good singer, you’re going to make anything sound good. |
| I love making music, I love composing on my computer, just making crazy ethnic slack orchestral tracks, that’s one of my fun things. |
| I hope America sees I am a goofy guy and I’m kind of crazy, I hope they see that I am a musician as well, that I have music all around my body – I’m just exfoliating music, and I just hope America sees that. |
| I’m a car singer, in fact, sometimes I pretend to take my dog out for a walk, and I’ll just drive him around and start singin’. |
| Certainly, the O.J. Simpson case was a turning point in my career. |
| In my spare time, I like watching TV, lying on the couch, and just chillin’. |
| The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer to go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail? |
| When eating an elephant take one bite at a time. |
| You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening. |
| In my spare time, I like watching TV, lying on the couch, and just chillin’. |
| You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host. |
| They can say I have an opinion about something. |
| Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most. |
| Some people think I’m a total moron and I would hope most people think I’m very good at what I do. |
| I’m not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we’re talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance. |
| I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal. |
| I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I’m awful. |
| But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people. |
| I think by laying it out for the viewer I’m avoiding the issue of bias. |
| I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about. |
| There isn’t any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what’s going on in Nicaragua. |
| The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail? |
| There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important. |
| This is going right to the police. So, it’s a very dangerous precedent. |
| Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle. |
| CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court. |
| I love listening to Radio Head’s ‘Everything in its Right Place’ because it’s all major chords, it makes you feel really good. It’s soothing, it’s got a beautiful voice and crazy textures. When I’m down I listen to that song and it really makes me feel good. |
| Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happened to be not confidential. But it was an interview with Dan Rather. |
| I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are very difficult cases out there. |
| I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn’t really have enough of that. |
| I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even gone to jail for an issue like this. But I can’t say that’s the norm. |
| I mean the idea of this is that it’s a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it’s not really a CBS correspondent. |
| I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and if was I really thinking straight about how my opponents behaved and how the judges behaved was needed. |
| I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in. |
| I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same. |
| No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden and win libel suits, and in those cases, I think they ought to win. |
| I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York. |
| It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect the First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on. |
| When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law – most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America – is really within living memory. |
| The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them. |
| I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down. |
| So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point of view of a principle as broad and important as freedom of speech is that the courts articulate and set forth in a very protective way what those principles are. |
| I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good guy or a bad guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in. |
| I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 – in which the government tried to block The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam – is probably the most important case. |
| I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 – in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam – is probably the most important case. |
| It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public’s right to know. |
| It is not to benefit CBS, not to benefit its reporters. On this one, the entire basis of it is this is a way to get more information, more important information to the public. And that’s why so many states recognize this. |
| The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th-century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. |
| If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don’t think there’s any doubt but that people won’t talk. And, therefore, the public won’t learn. |
| It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role and a major role, but they’re not the only players in this game. |
| I try to do that in this book without preaching – to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody. |
| The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again. |
| John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student. |
| When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can’t complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it’s had an effect and will continue to have an effect. |
| When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas. |
| We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background. |
| We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. |
| The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. |
| Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions. |
| If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. |
| If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false. |
| Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading. |
| Keep your ears open, and your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn! |
| It’s amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable. |
| They’ve got us surrounded again, the poor bastards. |
| While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it. |
| It is never very crowded at the front. |
| I’m a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn’t like to play myself. |
| Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me. |
| My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons. |
| I’d heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami. |
| My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them. |
| I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun. |
| On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing. |
| My first vocation was dance. |
| I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing. |
| I really wanted to work and become independent. |
| I had to gain weight until I looked like a seal so I could compete with the real whores who played the other roles. I was fat as a barrel. |
| For most of my career, I’ve played roles that were written for other actresses. |
| Acting is the work of two people only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director. |
| Acting is the work of two people only possible when you have the complicity, the help, and even the manipulation of a director. |
| The actress they’d hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn’t like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked. |
| Psychiatrists don’t solve anything from one day to the next. |
| I like men with some belly who are a little over the hill. |
| The director had come to Madrid to court me. |
| CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believed that there was a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn’t work for the police and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he’s a journalist and not a police agent. |
| The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday, I was shooting. |
| There’s nothing more human than two people making love. |
| When I said I was going to audition for a film, I got a hearty laugh from all my family. |
| When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture. |
| You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. |
| People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries. |
| I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee. |
| We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room. |
| The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. |
| I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else. |
| All of the men on my staff can type. |
| The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened. |
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