Dale Bumpers famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Does it sound outrageous to you that military spending for fiscal year 2000 will be almost $290 billion and all other domestic discretionary spending, such as education, job training, housing, Amtrak, medical research, environment, Head Start and many other worthwhile programs will total $246 billion, the biggest disparity in modern times ?
-- Dale Bumpers

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When you hear somebody say, 'This is not about sex' - it's about sex.
-- Dale Bumpers

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An artistâ€™s job is to captivateâ€¦ if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.
An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.
The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.
I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.
There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.
Iâ€™m not a fan of â€˜write what you know.â€™ If you donâ€™t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing â€˜The Year of Living Biblically.â€™ That was kind of the point â€“ to learn.
A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.

Dale Bumpers famous quotes

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