E.K. Blair Quotes

In 1997, we faced daunting challenges. Boom and bust economics..... Now, for all that remains to be done, dwell for a moment on what has been achieved.

You have to let go of the past to have a better future, and you do that through love and family.

My experience is the White House is not a very good place to coordinate intelligence, much less to integrate it.

I'm one of those hovering mothers and I know it's really important to have an independent child, so I'm trying to back off, but it's hard. I love him so much, and he's so funny and cute to me.

In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight.

I'll tell you what 20 years teaches you - is that if one thing doesn't last something else will come down the pipe and to go from that and to do these films now.

Two packed houses. I guess the theater sat 2,700 people every night so it was an amazing experience.

Our deal always was that we did one as scripted always, we got it like we thought we needed - so we were all happy with it as written. Then I'd let him play as long as we had time.

It's something that was very interesting to me to be a part of and all of them again because of the relationship. Some of the superhero movies are better than others.

To be still standing 20 years in this business is a great feeling, I can't even tell you.

Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought I would accomplish what I have in the sport

You have to have the right mind-set.

I will remember all the days at the Olympics.

I don't fear anything.

My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked it.

Men are never brave, are they?

The information gained from these techniques was valuable in some instances, but there is no way of knowing whether the same information could have been obtained through other means.

Anger is the poorest of counselors, and revenge is suicide.

The Sound of battle fell upon my ear & heart all day yesterday - even after dark the cannon's insatiate roar continued.

Surely tis by faith we are upheld thro such trials-justice will be meted in time to those who fill soft places and malign men who perform heroic duties

A goal is created three times. First as a mental picture. Second, when written down to add clarity and dimension. And third, when you take action towards its achievement.

Take full responsibility for your life, move forward in the direction of your dreams

Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.

Nothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing.

In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, dispositions hold the place of actions.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.

As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian.

If something like one in nine Londoners is a Muslim, then I want one in nine police officers to be a Muslim. Which means we are currently about 2,000 short.

I'd much rather resign than be pushed.

What we have to do as a nation, and London as a city, is to get behind that figure and think what we are doing.

If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me?

I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.

I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.

I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree.

I think people can learn from my experience - you know, any young people who are under pressure, whether you work on Wall Street or you work in a factory in Alabama, and young journalists.

It's hard to say what role race really played in my case.

I seek to be authentic and engaging, using my own experiences, being as vulnerable as I ask my clients to be, to enhance the process.

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight of, sort of, my moral and ethical underpinnings.

You know I am done lying. Obscuring the truth is no longer something I have any interest in doing. I want it all to come out. The good, the bad, the ugly.

It's very painful to have something that's not true written about you.

Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive.

One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie.

Some people it seems to me would like for me to crawl in a hole and disappear forever. That's just not in my nature.

Well the first thing I'd say is that I'm not sure exactly what I'm supposed to do to show my remorse other than to say that I'm remorseful.

I am immensely contrite. And I'm sorry for the damage I've done.

For me reading the book [The Exorcist], I had the same questions that everyone else had. How does she jump up and down off the bed? How does her head spin around? How does she throw up?

If I had children, I would be very selfish. I wouldn't be out doing things. But by not having kids, it makes me freer to travel the world and talk about things I feel are important.

Turkeys are misunderstood. Once I adopted turkeys, I understood this large bird to be a great companion.