Top 25 Halperin Quotes
#1. One of the last books I read was 'Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime' by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. It gives a really good behind-the-scenes look at the campaigns. I didn't ask the president how accurate it was. I wouldn't ask him that.
Gary Locke
#2. Apparently, lesbians and gay men who have no desire "to become queer" have failed at a task that is obligatory for them, whether or not they are aware of it. Halperin, like Foucault, in short, is yet another busybody who has an agenda for other people's lives.
Bruce Bawer
#3. My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.
Billy Graham
#4. It's doubtful we're the first creatures to love those we should not, and we surely won't be the last.
Deborah Harkness
#5. Nobody sang better than my mom. That's why I've never even thought of singing for singing sake. I've always thought of a song as an acting piece, as a way to say something.
Liza Minnelli
#7. The final battle against intolerance is to be fought
not in the chambers of any legislature
but in the hearts of men.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#8. You can't smile and act like you love me one second then destroy my world the very next.
J.M. Darhower
#9. I thought I was raptured up into the air today; turns out, it was just my gas oven exploding.
Emo Philips
#10. I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead.
Elliott Erwitt
#11. The milk of human kindness was kept often in the larder, and the tea served with lemon.
John Halperin
#12. [Writing a joke] there is no team of writers. It's just you in an office, staring at yourself in the mirror.
Jimmy Fallon
#13. Sufficient sleep, exercise, healthy food, friendship, and peace of mind are necessities, not luxuries.
Mark Halperin
#14. We exalt our calling, not to gain glory among men, or money, or satisfaction, or favor, but because people need to be assured that the words we speak are the words of God. This is no sinful pride. It is holy pride.
Martin Luther
#15. Standing in the shadow of the most prodigious political and fund-raising apparatus the Democratic Party had ever seen, [Biden] felt like a stranger to it, as if he'd walked into an opulent wedding where he knew no one.
Mark Halperin
#16. Ben laughed. "You think all religions are scams, don't you?"
"Yes, I suppose I do," Epstein said. "But the religions are mostly scamming themselves. That they scam others is usually a side-effect.
James L. Halperin
#17. Sometimes those who love most deeply can't get past the weight of their own feelings.
James L. Halperin
#18. When you walk around with a long face in the house, that is called conflict.
Dada Bhagwan
#19. We have a responsibility to hold both sides accountable to the public interest, but that doesn't mean we reflexively and artificially hold both sides 'equally' accountable when the facts don't warrant that.
Mark Halperin
#20. I always imagined that having a baby is something that I'm going to keep in a private place, but maybe my curse is that all I'm going to want to do is tell everybody about what my birth process was like and what my children's nightmares are.
Lena Dunham
#21. The chemical structure of the K+ channel at its mouth strips off the water shells surrounding K+. Thus, K+ becomes smaller than Na+ and can pass through the channel, whereas Na+ cannot do so.
Mitchell L. Halperin
#22. Okay, I'm flattered, I appreciate your attempt at making me feel better after the fiasco with the pita rolls, but please ring up this beer I need it more than flattery.
Amanda Filipacchi
#23. This law of capitalistic society would sound absurd to savages, or even civilised colonists. It calls to mind the boundless reproduction of animals individually weak and constantly hunted down.24
Karl Marx
#24. It was Bill Clinton who once pithily captured the contrast between the two parties when it came to selecting a presidential standard-bearer: Democrats want to fall in love; Republicans just fall in line.
Mark Halperin
#25. Focus first on where you want to be, and why, and then on the right path to get there.
Mark Halperin
