C. J. Dennis Quotes

I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in.

No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling Republicans and conservatives racist.

Hillary Clinton is unworthy of being the President of the United States; she has done nothing important that is good

The Left will destroy what is good to try to make what is perfect. That is the motto of the Left

America, not Keith Ellison, decides what book a congressman takes his oath on.

If pain were water, the world would drown

The Left corrupts everything it touches

When America doesn't act, bad things happen

Virtually nothing Barack Obama has done has left America or the world better since he became president. Nearly everything he has touched has been made worse.

Most people who call themselves conservatives can't explain the American value system.

The last thing Jews need is to create tension with their best friends. And the last thing Christians need is a renewal of Christian hatred toward Jesus' people.

I have known Tavis Smiley since the 1980s, when we both worked at the same radio station in Los Angeles. He is smart, and he is a gentleman who has accorded me great respect both on and off the air.

If there is no God, the labels 'good' and 'evil' are merely opinions. They are substitutes for 'I like it' and 'I don't like it.' They are not objective realities.

Those indoctrinated by leftist thinking become largely incapable of making accurate moral judgments.

I love being a dad. Basically it's the most gratifying, rewarding relationship in life. But, at the same time, it certainly is the most challenging.

What is great about art and artists is that we get to ask the questions, even though we may never know the answers.

Back then, people were throwing their underwear onstage. I remember taking eight pairs of my own underwear to the cleaners and getting only four back.

Jesus himself talked about prayer and meditation. Anything that brings you closer to the Lord, what's wrong with that?

I found that you don't have to do drugs to have a great time. Music is a great drug on its own.

Golf is meaningless, but it means so much.

I've always considered myself a character actor. That's the way I was trained, really.

I'm an idol of cinema? Oh, wow.

If you're going to stick around in this business, you have to have the ability to reinvent yourself, whether consciously or unconsciously.

I could never hold a job for more than three months, which works out well because that's how long a movie shoots.

I directed a movie back in the '90s which had calf roping in it, and I got into it quite a bit back then.

I have always done my own stunts, and I have been in hundreds of fights in films, but I have never been in a fist fight outside the movies.

For many years, I was obsessed about what I was eating, how many calories it had, and how much exercise I'd have to do.

My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball.

I have a ranch in Montana, but it's not a real working ranch. I've always liked the outdoors. I come from Texas. My grandfather was a farmer; that's as close as I come.

I like acting and being a musician. It's like comparing apples and oranges. But I really like my day job. I've always played music since I was 12, and I guess I always will.

I love doing independent films, but it's very hard to make a living that way.

I've done so many movies that when I see them I don't really watch them.

I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers.

Playing Bill Clinton is really, probably, the scariest time of my career.

I look for a good story. Usually the best stories are the ones that are unbelievably true. 'Soul Surfer' is one of those stories.

Going to the golf course every day for work? That's a good job.

I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. I grew up in Houston. Gordo Cooper was my favorite astronaut.

I'd love to do a golf movie. I turned down Don Johnson's role in 'Tin Cup.' I regret that.

I love being a dad, and I'm good at it. Kids teach you about life, like how not to focus on yourself so much.

You go to Main Street, and Wal-Mart is coming to town and kicking out all the mom and pop stores. All the people that were in the mom and pop stores are now working for Wal-Mart.

What they will do is, you know the tabloids. They'll take one element of a story that may be true and they'll build everything around it. Take a picture and invent a story around it.

'Legion' was a lot of fun to shoot. It was a real unique apocalypse scenario that takes place in a diner out in the desert. Very much like a drive-in B-movie, but in a good way.

You have to have the ability to remake yourself. Whatever that is. Every several years... Every five to 10 years.

I would like my kids to follow their bliss.

I don't have a grand strategy for my career. I just look for good material, and good stories. I look for good scripts.

I used to eat a lot of fish, but I've been shying away from it because of the mercury thing. I eat more beef and chicken now.

Initiative is at the heart of manhood

For books, I don't read much fiction, but like travel essays and good pop-science.

It's true that compared with the scene when Unix started, today the ecological niches are fairly full, and fresh new OS ideas are harder to come by, or at least to propagate.

C is declining somewhat in usage compared to C++, and maybe Java, but perhaps even more compared to higher-level scripting languages. It's still fairly strong for the basic system-type things.