Blhensonfoundation Quotes & Sayings

My dad was a complicated man. He was a huge racist, my dad, but he still tried to be a good father, you know? Like, he would tell me that Santa Claus was black - that way, when I found out he didn't exist, it wouldn't be that big a let down. — Anthony Jeselnik

For my generation - the "Children of Nixon," as I call us in the book - the Lebanese civil war was an iconic event. Downtown Beirut became a metaphor for so many things: man's inhumanity to man, what Charles Bukowski called "the impossibility of being human." It shaped our perceptions of war and human nature, just as Vietnam did for our parents. We used it to understand how the world works. — Annia Ciezadlo

I have never met a person who didn't have problems of some kind. This is why we need one another's encouragement. — Billy Graham

You should never wish for wishful thinking. — David Levithan

Who amongst us has not committed treason to something or someone more important than a country? — Graham Greene

Reaching out to Hispanics is critical to our future. The fastest-growing, and most conservative, segment of the population are natural Republicans. — Ken Mehlman

Those who by valorous ways become princes ... acquire a principality with difficulty, but they keep it with ease. — W.K. Marriott

I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel. — Steven Spielberg

They turned their desks into a trigonometric war room, poring over equations scrawling ideas on blackboards, evaluating their work, erasing it, starting over. — Margot Lee Shetterly

Upon discovering what Fred had done, his mother grabbed him and stripped his clothes off. She stuck his butt out the window and yelled at the top of her voice, "Everyone in the neighborhood come quickly and see Freddie's bare ass!" That would be the first of many times during Fred Levin's life that he would bare his backside for the world to see. — Josh Young

A bad system will beat a good person every time. — W. Edwards Deming

We can no longer completely avoid anthropogenic climate change. At best, limiting the temperature rise to two degrees is just about possible, according to optimistic estimates. That's why we should spend more time talking about adjusting to the inevitable and not about reducing CO2 emissions. We have to take away people's fear of climate change. — Hans Von Storch

If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie. — Hans Zimmer