Conrad Burns quote: "I think you got a cultural problem that [the airlines] just don't give a damn, and I really hate to say that because we ask the same questions and we get the same results every year since I've been in the United States Senate."

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CONRAD BURNS

Lawsuits - and frivolous lawsuits - are just sapping the life out of the people who perform the serv...
CONRAD BURNS

Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, an...
CONRAD BURNS

are a critical element of the nuclear triad and represent our most responsive, stabilizing and cost-...
CONRAD BURNS

If anyone has ownership rights, it's the citizens of Montana, ... It's nonsense to try to secure the...
CONRAD BURNS

There is no good reason for our cattle producers to have such limited market access. Our beef is the...
CONRAD BURNS

Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that en...
CONRAD BURNS

I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensi...
CONRAD BURNS

I'm not sure there is a lot of legislation we can pass ... but we can cut through some red tape,
CONRAD BURNS

Today, our brave military men and women, just as those who have gone before them, stand on alert, se...
CONRAD BURNS

Securing our homeland is one of the most important things we do here in Congress, ... (The Sept. 11,...
CONRAD BURNS

On a lot of this he (Clinton) will not use Congress, ... What are we here for?
CONRAD BURNS

We must not let our guard down and let our enemy know we have an empty holster, so to speak.
CONRAD BURNS

I am seriously troubled by the proposed rapid consolidation in the telecommunications marketplace.
CONRAD BURNS

The Last Best Place.
CONRAD BURNS

You approached it the right way,
CONRAD BURNS

They appear to have had a higher voter turnout in Iraq than we did in our recent federal elections, ...
CONRAD BURNS

Climbing, as my grandmother said, it's a pretty frivolous thing. She always wondered when I was ...
CONRAD ANKER

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on h...
JOSEPH CONRAD

All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none i...
CONRAD BLACK

There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.
CONRAD HALL

Be ever watchful for the opportunity to shelter little children with the umbrella of your charity; b...
CONRAD HILTON

The summit is what drives us, but the climb itself is what matters.
CONRAD ANKER

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely th...
JOSEPH CONRAD

In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bo...
JOSEPH CONRAD

I'd love to design bridal dresses.
LAUREN CONRAD

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world.
CONRAD WOLFRAM

We can't take climate change and put it on the back burner. If we don't address climate chan...
CONRAD ANKER

When Republicans used reconciliation in 2001 for the Bush tax cuts, they used it to increase the def...
KENT CONRAD

Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happ...
KENT CONRAD

I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my de...
CONRAD VEIDT

Looking back across the years, so many pictures flash on the screen of my memory that just as I begi...
CONRAD VEIDT

You don't want a slob, but you don't want a guy who is constantly borrowing your tweezers.
LAUREN CONRAD

There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportuniti...
JOSEPH CONRAD

All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so...
CONRAD AIKEN

Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know
CONRAD AIKEN

I love you, what star do you live on?
CONRAD AIKEN

And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leaves Interlace with low voices and footsteps and sun...
CONRAD AIKEN

Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that...
CONRAD AIKEN

And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leavesInterlace with low voices and footsteps and sunl...
CONRAD AIKEN

The man who wins is the average man,
Not built on any particular plan;
Not blessed with any ...
CONRAD HILTON

She walked with measured steps, draped in striped and fringed cloths, treading the earth proudly, wi...
JOSEPH CONRAD

It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
JOSEPH CONRAD

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an ...
JOSEPH CONRAD

The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Gossip is what no one claims to like -- but everyone enjoys.
JOSEPH CONRAD

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, ...
JOSEPH CONRAD

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man app...
JOSEPH CONRAD

We live as we dream--alone....
JOSEPH CONRAD

Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.
JOSEPH CONRAD

He did not care what the end would be, and in his lucid moments overvalued his indifference. The dan...
JOSEPH CONRAD

Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.
LAUREN CONRAD

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different com...
JOSEPH CONRAD

I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your ow...
JOSEPH CONRAD

I remember staying to look at it for a long time, as one would linger within reach of a consoling wh...
JOSEPH CONRAD

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
JOSEPH CONRAD

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and temp...
JOSEPH CONRAD

The camera is a killing chamber, which speeds up the time it claims to be conserving. Like coffins e...
PETER CONRAD

Success... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but th...
CONRAD HILTON

What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.
JOSEPH CONRAD

There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; ea...
JOSEPH CONRAD

A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out in...
JOSEPH CONRAD

What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself ...
JOSEPH CONRAD

I dare say I am compelled, unconsciously compelled, now to write volume after volume, as in past yea...
JOSEPH CONRAD

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
JOSEPH CONRAD

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it -- an oblique, indirect sample of what it cont...
PETER CONRAD

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, ...
JOSEPH CONRAD

Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little...
JOSEPH CONRAD

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the i...
JOSEPH CONRAD

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in eve...
JOSEPH CONRAD

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, ...
JOSEPH CONRAD

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
JOSEPH CONRAD

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an ...
JOSEPH CONRAD

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
JOSEPH CONRAD

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
JOSEPH CONRAD

The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance...
PETER CONRAD

A belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wic...
JOSEPH CONRAD

Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman.
CONRAD HILTON

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the s...
JOSEPH CONRAD

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectr...
JOSEPH CONRAD

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them o...
JOSEPH CONRAD

I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not a...
JOSEPH CONRAD

A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity ...
JOSEPH CONRAD

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It...
JOSEPH CONRAD

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natur...
JOSEPH CONRAD

It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible,...
JOSEPH CONRAD

All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so...
CONRAD AIKEN

It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.
JOSEPH CONRAD

The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with...
JOSEPH CONRAD

The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, d...
JOSEPH CONRAD

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for the...
JOSEPH CONRAD

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond fi...
JOSEPH CONRAD

Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely ...
JOSEPH CONRAD

Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of si...
JOSEPH CONRAD

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
JOSEPH CONRAD

It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, s...
JOSEPH CONRAD

You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty...
JOSEPH CONRAD

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
JOSEPH CONRAD

The sea -- this truth must be confessed -- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities -- coura...
JOSEPH CONRAD

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
JOSEPH CONRAD

There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembod...
JOSEPH CONRAD

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, i...
JOSEPH CONRAD

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
JOSEPH CONRAD

As to honor -- you know -- it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It ...
JOSEPH CONRAD

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man root...
JOSEPH CONRAD

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intellige...
JOSEPH CONRAD

The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regard...
JOSEPH CONRAD

When people pose the question, are you “coxom”, Tom Conrad? I like to pose a question back at th...
TOM CONRAD

There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it...
JOSEPH CONRAD

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
JOSEPH CONRAD

All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now ...
CONRAD AIKEN

The sea--this truth must be confessed-- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities-- courage,...
JOSEPH CONRAD

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every w...
JOSEPH CONRAD

All a man can betray is his conscience.
JOSEPH CONRAD

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
JOSEPH CONRAD

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement ...
PETER CONRAD

Once we played for the Princess of Monaco in Paris. We were the biggest ducks ever, wearing rented t...
CONRAD SEWELL

Going home must be like going to render an account.
JOSEPH CONRAD

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or n...
JOSEPH CONRAD

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, wa...
JOSEPH CONRAD

For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for al...
JOSEPH CONRAD

There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle la...
CONRAD HALL

I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.
CONRAD BLACK

Everyone has that friend who's every day, like, 'I hate my nose, I hate my nose, I hate my n...
LAUREN CONRAD

I used to get taxed on my allowance. Yeah, I've been taxed since I was a little kid. And at the ...
LAUREN CONRAD

Maths is fundamentally a different process in education than it is in the real world. There is an in...
CONRAD WOLFRAM

I hope I'm still shooting when I'm 80.
CONRAD HALL

It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of c...
CONRAD HALL

I want to tell a story and shape it all the way through to the end.
CONRAD HALL

The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are.
CONRAD HALL

My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar.
CONRAD HALL

I knew exactly how I wanted it to play, but you are never sure until you watch the projected images ...
CONRAD HALL

Photography is a very important part of my life.
CONRAD HALL

It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had...
CONRAD HALL

I think one of the reasons people quit is because they're afraid they won't be able to get b...
CONRAD HALL

The sun is the most parallel light source because it is so far away.
CONRAD HALL

My first semester, I got a D in creative writing.
CONRAD HALL

But at heart, I am more than a cinematographer.
CONRAD HALL

Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems.
CONRAD HALL

Painting and writing are solitary arts.
CONRAD HALL

With today's fast films, you can light the way your eye sees the scene. You can abuse the film a...
CONRAD HALL

I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.
CONRAD HALL

It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows.
CONRAD HALL

I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters.
CONRAD HALL

Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.
CONRAD HALL

Contrast is what makes photography interesting.
CONRAD HALL

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.
CONRAD HALL

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.
CONRAD HALL

There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it always a combination of pa...
LAUREN CONRAD

The mountains seem to have conquered us long before we set foot on them, and they will remain long a...
CONRAD ANKER

Mountains are freedom. Treat them respectfully.
CONRAD ANKER

You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.
CONRAD HALL

Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.
CONRAD HALL

Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed onto man...
CONRAD HILTON

Once I graduated from university, I wanted to climb and be outdoors as much as possible. I worked as...
CONRAD ANKER

There is too much illustrating of the news these days. I look at many editorial cartoons and I don&#...
PAUL CONRAD

I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, li...
JOSEPH CONRAD

The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
JOSEPH CONRAD

All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's no...
CONRAD AIKEN

Blogging is a great way to show your talents and interests to prospective employers, while adding an...
LAUREN CONRAD

Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians.
CONRAD BLACK

The compression of time one experiences when you're a small person underneath this huge avalanch...
CONRAD ANKER

I couldn't tell you in any detail how my computer works. I use it with a layer of automation.
CONRAD WOLFRAM

The practice of charity will bind us - will bind all men in one great brotherhood.
CONRAD HILTON

The first ascent of Everest came at a time when humanity needed relief from two world wars. It was a...
CONRAD ANKER

If people see me giving back to the military, they'll hopefully follow suit and be good to these...
CONRAD ANKER

Standing on the apex of our planet is humbling. I'm starved of oxygen, depleted of reserves, una...
CONRAD ANKER

Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.
LAUREN CONRAD

The buyer is entitled to a bargain. The seller is entitled to a profit. So there is a fine margin in...
CONRAD HILTON

I've never seen bad drawing destroy a good idea. On the other hand, I've never seen a good d...
PAUL CONRAD

Being responsible for another human life terrifies me, because I kill plants.
LAUREN CONRAD

They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritatin...
JOSEPH CONRAD

He lived then before me, he lived as much as he had ever lived---a shadow insatiable of splendid app...
JOSEPH CONRAD

Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.
JOSEPH CONRAD

When I was a kid, we would build pillow forts. My pillow fort was always like Ice Station 9 in Antar...
CONRAD ANKER

Here at home, we're in a world of right angles and human construct, so whether it's cement o...
CONRAD ANKER

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it, an oblique, indirect sample of what it contai...
PETER CONRAD

The U.S. prosecution service is eating at the soul of the American republic. It is an absolute dange...
CONRAD BLACK

At least 80 percent of American prisoners are grossly over-sentenced. The Supreme Court knows this, ...
CONRAD BLACK

If you compare Everest photographs in 1953 with its current state, things are melting. I imagine if ...
CONRAD ANKER

I'm into mellow dates with really good food.
LAUREN CONRAD

Walter Cronkite was a personally decent and convivial man, who literally couldn't kill a fly, wa...
CONRAD BLACK

It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow o...
JOSEPH CONRAD

Love is not a maybe thing, you know when you love someone.
LAUREN CONRAD

My website inspired me to create my book club and provides me with a creative outlet where I can wri...
LAUREN CONRAD

Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it...
KENT CONRAD

No one could seriously dispute that almost all of sub-Saharan Africa, all of North Africa except Mor...
CONRAD BLACK

I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace.
JAMES CONRAD

It's our human nature to explore. Tens of thousands of years ago, our species walked out of Afri...
CONRAD ANKER

Private-sector firms are increasingly active in the prison industry and they and the militantly unio...
CONRAD BLACK

When you're growing up, you play dress-up - it's a game, it's a pastime. And then as you...
LAUREN CONRAD

Even in the Pixar and DreamWorks animated movies, there are themes that could be taken into an adult...
CONRAD VERNON

Speaking for both organizations, we want to thank the community for stepping up in a time of need li...
CHAD CONRAD

We're really pleased with the results.
CHAD CONRAD

Even with the rapid and generous support from the American public and neighboring countries, a Commu...
CHAD CONRAD

I think you got a cultural problem that [the airlines] just don't give a damn, and I really hate to say that because we ask the same questions and we get the same results every year since I've been in the United States Senate.

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I think you got a cultural problem that [the airlines] just don't give a damn, and I really hate to say that because we ask the same questions and we get the same results every year since I've been in the United States Senate.

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