Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chuck Palahniuk

Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?

Chuck Grassley

I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers.

Chuck Grassley

Nominees [to Supreme Court] shouldn't be expected to pre-commit to ruling on certain issues in a certain way. Nor should senators ask nominees to pledge to rule on issues in a particular way.

Ann Marie Buerkle

I'm passionate about people. I've spent my life in advocacy. People matter - whether or not we agree on the issue, people matter.

Angelina Jolie

I'm hopeful that increased awareness of the issues in Africa will bring about a new wave of progress and activism among young people everywhere.

Angelina Jolie

I make it a point not to buy certain magazines, not because I am against tabloids or things like that, but I want to fill my mind with valid issues in the world.

Alyson Hannigan

I can't stand when people use drugs as an escape. It's like, everybody suffers. Deal with your issues, you'll feel so much better.

Alveda King

You know, people really want to hear about the issues.

Anne Sweeney

Piracy is a huge, huge issue for all of these major content companies, and everybody has a different way of addressing it.

Anna Lindh

The most important issue we have to deal with is freedom of movement.

Anita Hill

But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about.

Andrew Sullivan

[D]id you really expect fairness on the environmental issue? For a swathe of reporters, this is not a matter of empirical reporting; it's a matter of faith. Bush cannot be pro-environment because he's Bush.

Andrew Sullivan

What I love about the Internet and what I try to do on the issues is insist upon the ability to have bad taste if one wants.

Andrea Arnold

I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.

Ambrose Bierce

hybrid, n. A pooled issue.

Alicia Keys

The climate of today is not really focused as much as it was then on being able to speak about different cultural issues or different situations that were going on politically.

Amy Jo Martin

We'll continue to see more and more brands integrate social causes, charitable components and environmental issues as underlying themes to their campaigns and messaging. Humans connect with humans after all, and brands are using this as a point of connection to engage with their audience, especially charity-minded Generation Y.

Ann Coulter

Everything that liberals want they call a civil right. This avoids them having to argue about it and puts the halo around the issue.

Who cares? It's not an issue from our standpoint. It's getting to the playoffs and moving forward. That's what it's all about.

We realized very big issues are at stake,

David Dreier

We take this issue on one vote at a time,

We suggested months ago alternative ways to respond. We think these issues were expected.

Vandana Shiva

Population control is not an issue involving contraceptives for third world women. It is an issue of ecological justice.

Karen Joy Fowler

In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would have moved on the whole climate issue in a different way if we'd been paying better attention.

Jimmy Cliff

Basically, I'm motivated to write about sociopolitical issues as well as relationships. I think those themes have stayed with me throughout my life.

James Wolfensohn

The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty.

James Wolfensohn

The issue of poverty is not a statistical issue. It is a human issue.

Jami Attenberg

The fascinating thing about food is that if you have issues with it, you have to face it every single day.

Jami Attenberg

People judge you because of your weight and your food issues. It's very visual.

Janet Jackson

A lot of my friends they call me 'the therapist'. They come to me looking for advice. I must be doing something right because they keep coming back. But I'm not very good at kind of looking into my own world and trying to pick apart what is really wrong and fix those things. I like to kind of shy away from certain issues and turn away.

Bret Easton Ellis

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

Boris Kodjoe

We have relationships and know the exact outcome with that person because we don't deal with ourselves and don't deal with our issues and end up being attracted to the same person or the person is attracted to our energy.

Bob Edwards

That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.