Them Quotes

There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

I think there are some in the Democratic Party - not all - but I think there are some people in the Democratic Party that think that the immigration issue is more valuable to them unsolved. That it gives them something to talk about, that they can go back to Hispanic communities and make unrealistic promises every two years and win votes.

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.

There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.

Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.

Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.

It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter.

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.