He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.
I wanna be one of those special guys. Jimi Hendrix wasn't afraid of who he was. That's the part I emulate.
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
Leonard Bernstein was probably the most significant formative influence on me - he was such an encompassing musician. I spent my teenage years absorbing him, and my other interests stemmed off of that. Bernstein led me to Sondheim and to Gershwin, and Sondheim led me to listening to Joni Mitchell.
When I was 4 or 5, I attended my father's concerts. He very often played Strauss waltzes as encores and I saw something happening with the audience.
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in Vietnam when Gen. William Westmoreland, the top commander in Vietnam, requested 240,000 more troops in 1968 for the prolonged war that also could not be won.
Open government is, within limits, an ideal that we all share. U.S. President Barack Obama endorsed it when he took office in January 2009.
I have never endorsed Roy Moore. Just the fact that he was forced off the state supreme court is enough for me.
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
Shortly after Sisi was elected, his administration announced cuts of 'subsidies' on natural gas and energy consumption and lowered those for bread and other goods. Such action was taboo during the Mubarak and Sadat presidencies for over half a century, but Sisi was able to convince Egyptians he was taking necessary action.
The engineer performs many public functions from which he gets only philosophical satisfactions. Most people do not know it, but he is an economic and social force.
My dad is a Ghanaian immigrant, and he wanted a son who was an engineer.
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.
An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.
If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.
