Askelm Quotes & Sayings

I like being an editor, and I know how to make a magazine. — Roberto Civita

The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of that. — Pat Paulsen

There is no music more powerful than hip-hop. No other music so purely demands an instant affirmative on such a global scale. When the beat drops, people nod their heads, "yes," in the same way that they would in conversation with a loved one, a parent, professor, or minister. — Saul Williams

It is foolish to teach a person a lesson by killing them. For they'd be too dead to learn anything. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I've never played a Dane in a movie. I've had offers to be in Danish movies, including for some good directors, but I either had a job at the time or, when I was available, the movie just didn't happen. Hopefully someday I'll do one. — Viggo Mortensen

There is a tendency of the American people to give those who are elected an opportunity to carry out their policies and programs. — John Dingell

The second type you have at these parades seems to be the people who want to mislabel Hitler. Everybody in the world is Hitler. Bush is Hitler, Ashcroft is Hitler, Rumsfeld is Hitler. The only guy who isn't Hitler is the foreign guy with a mustache dropping people who disagree with him into the wood chipper. He's not Hitler. — Dennis Miller

Negative people will always try to drag you down to their level. As hard as they may try ... don't let 'em! — Timothy Pina

Most of the policies that support robust economic growth in the long run are outside the province of the central bank. — Ben Bernanke

From where I sit, battles are hard. I've written my share. Sometimes I employ the private's viewpoint, very up close and personal, dropping the reader right into the middle of the carnage. That's vivid and visceral, but of necessity chaotic, and it is easy to lose all sense of the battle as a whole. Sometimes I go with the general's point of view instead, looking down from on high, seeing lines and flanks and reserves. That gives a great sense of the tactics, of how the battle is won or lost, but can easily slide into abstraction. — George R R Martin