"Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me."

Rating:

  rate this quote
Topic: none  help us select a topic for this quote

More quotes from: Diana Nyad

• "If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you ..."
• "A public relations firm said that rock star David Lee Roth owes them over $110,000. ..."
• "American and British troops handed out food to hundreds of Iraqis. Not surprisingly, Iraqis handed ..."
• "Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician ..."
• "Apparently the new high-tech Star Wars toys will be in stores any day now. The ..."
• "Bob Dole is going to be appearing in a Pepsi commercial with Britney Spears. Yeah, ..."
• "CBS news anchor Dan Rather has interviewed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. When asked what it ..."
• "During last night's debate, John Kerry and John Edwards were so friendly to each other ..."
• "Early on, they were timing my contract with an egg timer. "
• "Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge has unveiled a new color-coded system to warn the public ..."
• "If life gives you lemons, make some kind of fruity juice. "
• "In a prime-time address, President Bush said he backed limited federal funding for stem cell ..."
• "In Cleveland there is legislation moving forward to ban people from wearing pants that fit ..."
• "In New York, we had primary elections for mayor. To improve their chances, all five ..."
• "In West Virginia yesterday, a man was arrested for stealing several blow-up dolls. Reportedly, police ..."
• "John Travolta said he sometimes lets his friends take control of his airplane even though ..."
• "Martha Stewart showed up at Manhattan FBI Headquarters to have her finger prints taken and ..."
• "Michael Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It caused quite ..."
• "Officials at the White House are saying that President Bush hasn't changed his schedule much ..."
• "Pamela Anderson Lee released a statement confirming that she has had her breast implants removed. ..."
• "Playboy magazine announced that they are going to support the troops by sending them emails ..."
• "President Bush left for Canada today to attend a trade summit. Reportedly, the trade summit ..."
• "President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that ..."
• "Presidential campaign getting kind of ugly, did you hear about this? Yesterday, a 27-year-old woman ..."
• "Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by ..."
• "Scientist announced a device that can be placed in a pacemaker and will call your ..."
• "Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it ..."
• "Several hard-core Star Wars fans who had tickets for the first showing actually said that ..."
• "The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to ..."
• "The Defense Department said that troops in Afghanistan discovered several tapes of Osama bin Laden ..."
• "The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to ..."
• "Tom Cruise's attorney said he is going to sue anyone who claims he is gay. ..."
• "Vanity Fair magazine reports that former President Clinton and Al Gore haven't spoken to each ..."
• "Yesterday American and British troops handed out food to hundreds of Iraqis. Not surprisingly, the ..."
• "Yesterday, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he would run for governor of California. The announcement was good ..."
• "Yesterday, the Pentagon warned U.S. reporters that they should get out of Baghdad as soon ..."
• "I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive ..."
• "I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a ..."
• "My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I ..."
• "Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am ..."
• "The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed. "
• "When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, ..."
• "Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul. "
• "Writing is like carrying a fetus. "
• "A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she ..."
• "I opened it at page 96 - the secret page on which I write my ..."
• "It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that ..."
• "Some savage faculty for observation told him that most respectable and estimable people usually had ..."
• "The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense ..."
• "A lot of things we do at the Fox News Channel are things I know ..."
• "All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. "
• "Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. "
• "Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, ..."
• "Laughter is wine for the soul-laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness. ..."
• "No man is so old as to believe he cannot live one more year. "
• "The flame from the angel's sword in the garden of Eden has been catalyzed into ..."
• "The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, ..."
• "The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and ..."
• "The old - like children - talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless ..."
• "The worlds a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. "
• "There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as ..."
• "Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to ..."
• "You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea; you cannot put an ..."
• "Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong. "
• "There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong. "
• "I think he's in every man my age, no matter what he does, whether he's ..."
• "People see Archie Bunker everywhere. Particularly girls-poor girls, rich girls, all kinds of girls are ..."
• "All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not ..."
• "Conviction without experience makes for harshness. "
• "Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is ..."

• "I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best. "
• "I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not ..."
• "I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always ..."
• "I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to ..."
• "It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes. "
• "It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even ..."
• "Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad ..."
• "The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. "
• "The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require ..."
• "There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. "
• "When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to ..."
• "A moment of silence is not inherently religious. "
• "Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem ..."
• "Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person. "
• "I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job. "
• "It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it ..."
• "It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of ..."
• "My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at ..."
• "Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment. "
• "We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal ..."
• "No man is as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman. "
• "Doing those costume pictures was wonderful. "
• "Going up the walls doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days. "
• "I can picture things, like a painter would, though I'm not good at painting, either. "
• "I didn't smoke. I didn't smoke then, and I don't smoke now. We worked every ..."
• "I grew up in vaudeville. All the hoofers used to get together in a drugstore ..."
• "I like it live. I think the numbers are live in the movie. If they ..."
• "I think you should make more movies, more musicals. I think the public deserves that. ..."
• "I'm basically a hoofer, a tap dancer. I was always very good from the waist ..."
• "I'm not a good choreographer: I can't remember what I put down. "
• "It's so wonderful... if your whole day is rotten, once they start the music, it ..."
• "My brothers and my mother were all dancers, outside of whatever else they did, like ..."
• "Pratfalls are always funny. A performer has to answer to himself. If you think something's ..."
• "Remember, if you do the same act for 20, 30 years it gets a little ..."
• "That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit ..."
• "They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It ..."
• "To me, the funniest thing that happened was when Gene was filming the main title ..."
• "We used to work in two great black houses: Chicago's Regal Theater, and the Apollo ..."
• "Well, my legs are the same size; I'm still 5-foot-10 - that's with heels. I ..."
• "What they're doing now with disco is combining a lot of the old steps and ..."
• "Whatever they laughed at the most, that's what we did on the screen. I had ..."
• "You see, as far as the man's personality goes, there's no one who can touch ..."
• "Actually I have to say when I'm acting, I try not to think about directing ..."
• "Actually, I'm personally quite ready to start a family and just continue on with other ..."
• "All the pictures in magazines and all of that is fun but in the end ..."
• "And I think because there is an essence of me that cares about other people ..."
• "And I think right now I'm just enjoying finding something such as One Weekend a ..."
• "And not to mean that I think I'm some special person, but I think we're ..."
• "Because I'm a mom now, as well as someone who wants to have a career, ..."
• "Because I've always been more afraid of writing than I have of doing anything visually ..."
• "But it just comes down to trying to get the work out there and however ..."
• "But on stage you're able to just take the character from one point to the ..."
• "But on the other hand, I think as an actor, you tend to want to ..."
• "Filmmaking in general is just really where I'm putting all of my energy. "
• "For me both episodes that I directed were so different and what I think I ..."
• "For me it's all about creating a goal and fulfilling it. "
• "Granted, I do also believe in free will as well. I just think we have ..."
• "I always thought I would be a marine biologist because I love the sea - ..."
• "I always watch the show as soon as the episode's been completed. "
• "I believe I have a lot to learn in life, still. "
• "I believe over the last six years now, I've been learning in between actual acting ..."
• "I can't imagine doing this kind of work if you're not going to affect someone. "
• "I do try to be the best person I can, but I still think that ..."
• "I fell in love with Africa while I was there. "
• "I hope that my work makes a difference because I think that's why I do ..."
• "I know that both Lucy and I are aware that there's been a strong influx ..."
• "I love actors who are wonderful - like John Cusack and Russell Crowe, and wouldn't ..."
• "I mean, I like to be creative because it challenges me to try to be ..."
• "I mean, I would never have met my husband, which is why I believe I ..."

• "I remember a point, when I was in California, where I almost got out of ..."
• "I think I'll always be a theater gypsy at heart. "
• "I think it's sometimes hard for people sometimes to accept, but not to believe. And ..."
• "I think you have to have different tools for each job - you know producer ..."
• "I wouldn't say that I'm overly religious, but I have a pretty good relationship with ..."
• "I'm the type of person who feels I have to prove myself first. "
• "I've been looking at oil paintings from oriental artists lately, and the one artist who's ..."
• "I've grown so much as a person through playing Gabrielle, much less living in New ..."
• "In film and television you have to be able to see the whole picture in ..."
• "It's still so hard for me to believe that the show's really ending. I can't ..."
• "It's very hard to become an actor in film and television, you have to have ..."
• "Just believe in yourself and to find spirituality that's going to carry you. Because all ..."
• "Painting is a hobby for me. "
• "Personally, I think it's time for it to go out on a high, that's what ..."
• "We are always just trying to be strong and yet in touch with our bodies ..."
• "We just try to tell a good story hoping that everyone will remember that we're ..."
• "Well to tell you the truth, over the last six years, I've hardly watched any ..."
• "Well you know, I don't really know honestly, how we're going to end the show ..."
• "When Xena finished I just really wanted to work with Shakespeare's material. "
• "When you think about going back to the States you start to become more aware ..."
• "Yes, but that's the beauty of the show though - that we've left it up ..."
• "You know I'd have to say that I think Gabrielle is probably searching for her ..."
• "All I know is that when I was a kid the Vietnam war was on ..."
• "I find this proposed amendment very, very, very, very shocking. And immoral. And, you know, ..."
• "I think the actions of the president are, in my opinion, the most vile and ..."
• "I'd love to be a dead body in the emergency room and have George Clooney ..."
• "The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be ..."
• "We are losing the democracy that we're trying to sell in the Mideast and everywhere ..."
• "You know, this President invaded a sovereign nation in defiance of the UN. He is ..."
• "It's the most amazing feeling to hold your child in your arms. "
• "Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful. "
• "Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to ..."
• "America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence ..."
• "An artist is his own fault. "
• "Little old ladies of both sexes. Why do I let them bother me? "
• "Much as I like owning a Rolls-Royce, I could do without it. What I could ..."
• "So who's perfect? Washington had false teeth. Franklin was nearsighted. Mussolini had syphilis. Unpleasant things ..."
• "They say great themes make great novels. but what these young writers don't understand is ..."
• "I am who I am and I don't expect people to treat me differently. "
• "I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could ..."
• "I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore. "
• "I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any ..."
• "I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't ..."
• "It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a ..."
• "Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together ..."
• "Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see ..."
• "One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. ..."
• "Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so ..."
• "Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue - that blue that will always be ..."
• "The days you work are the best days. "
• "To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage. "
• "When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your ..."
• "You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare. "
• "A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it. "
• "A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market. "
• "A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood. "
• "An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards. "
• "Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense. "
• "God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive ..."
• "Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye. "
• "If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it. "
• "In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get ..."
• "Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of ..."
• "Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you. "
• "Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old ..."
• "The smaller the head, the bigger the dream. "
• "The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them. "
• "The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary ..."
• "When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is cast by a Light. "