quotes about Clout

last updated: November 28, 2023

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.
-- Ben Bradlee

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I'm playing one of the principal roles, which gives you more clout and more confidence.
-- Charles Dance

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The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control of the budget, from developing it to implementing it, to ensuring that the National Intelligence Director has the clout to make decisions.
-- Leonard Boswell

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“Learning is the art of ignoring.”

Source : Elias Canetti (1964). “Auto-da-fé”, New York : Stein and Day
“When you're young everything feels like the end of the world, but its not; its just the beginning.”
“A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.”
“Anger cannot be overcome by anger. If someone is angry with you, and you show anger in return, the result is a disaster. On the other hand, if you control your anger and show its opposite - love, compassion, tolerance and patience - not only will you remain peaceful, but the other person's anger will also diminish.”
“I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.”

Source : "Flavor Flav Loses Virginity At Six Years Old?". Complex Magazine Interview, hiphopdx.com. July 08, 2008.
“There is reason to say that negotiations with the North Koreans are not easy, they may not succeed, but they may be a way of getting to where we want to get to, limiting the capability of the North Koreans to do harm to us and our allies without the use of military force and without the risk of a major war in Northeast Asia.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“I'm not unswayed by the opinions of others. I actually really value that, the idea that you can feel things the way somebody else might feel them is a really big part of doing music for me.”

Source : "Deerhoof". Interview with Marc Masters, pitchfork.com. February 26, 2006.
“It was really important to try to reach a whole new audience so we had a lot of people in who not only had not seen the last film but were not Star Trek fans, or thought of themselves as not being Star Trek fans, or they had seen bits and pieces of Star Trek in the past and it was just not for them.”
“A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds And when the weeds begin to grow It's like a garden full of snow...”
“The family unit is the most important organization in time or in eternity.”