Quotes About Association

I didn't read Western novels much until I was in my twenties, but I had a diet of them on film and TV, as well as other things, of course.

Everybody thinks the Bushes are from Texas. I've been there twice.

Well, like most black Americans, I grew up thinking I was supposed to be a Democrat. It wasn't even something you questioned or thought twice about. Black equaled Democrat.

Nobody wants to say that the man [Obama] is a Marxist. Okay, so he's not a Marxist. He's a progressive! This is semantics.

Nobody wants to be associated with failing to qualify for the World Cup finals. I cannot imagine the shame of it.

Because I'm associated with an avant-garde sensibility, people think I'm looking down on popular culture, but I don't want to be part of a new elitism.

It should be the right of the individual to decide whether he wants to belong to a union.

I've been approached by many different people, but I don't really want to be known as a collaboration dude.

Does it make any sense at all that the chair of a national party would want fewer voters to see our candidates?

The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn't want to be, and we should be associating with anyone we want to.

It's my job that if somebody wants to have a discussion about something, I'm certainly sensitive to that, and I'm willing to do it.

One trick, known as the journey method or 'memory palace,' is to conjure up a familiar space in the mind's eye, and then populate it with images of whatever it is you want to remember.

A lot of people in fashion don't want to be linked with anything that has to do with reality TV.

I think that what people abroad want from French film, inside French film becomes our worst fear, "Oh, another film about love!"

I'm a baseball fan, but I'm not qualified to make baseball decisions, and I don't want to pretend to be.

Opinion free brands simply will struggle to survive in the future - of that simple reason that we increasingly want to associate ourselves with opinionated and authentic brands.

We cannot burn Mick Jagger. We want the effect, but we can't burn him.

People always want to identify a writer with their protagonist.

Mrs. Corey still uses her maiden name for business, or when she wants to pretend she doesn't know me.

I always thought the Yankees had something to do with it.

As an ultimate objective, "peace" simply means communist world control.

Lying and war are always associated. Listen closely when you hear a war-maker try to defend his current war: If he moves his lips he's lying.

Nationalism is blamed for this century's wars, but nationalism need not mean militarism. And the nation-state has been the laboratory of liberty.

I can't envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light.