Sam Phillips Quotes
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I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
Patrick Stewart -
The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
Orison Swett Marden -
Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.
Laura Harrier -
As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.
Natalie Imbruglia -
I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy.
Tamsin Egerton
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My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up the shelves in my grandmother's pantry. The pickle jar was kept right at the top. One time, I dropped the jar and it broke. I was totally busted.
Padma Lakshmi -
My mom insisted on multigrain bread and never allowed soda in the house.
Vin Diesel -
Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.
Dan Malloy -
To pump up consumer or government demand would force interest rates up and asset prices down, possibly by enough to destroy more jobs than are created.
Edmund Phelps -
I took group lessons at a rink near my home. We first had to learn how to stand up on the ice wearing skates. Eventually we learned to move forward, but soon found out that it was not that easy to stop! So that was our next important lesson.
Nancy Kerrigan -
Tests that sugar-coat the truth only set up our kids to fail in worse ways down the road.
Wendy Kopp
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Why can't I just eat my waffle?
Barack Obama -
We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up with dentists who are more traders than dentists. A dentist should drill teeth and use whatever he does in the stock market for entertainment.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I always do something that I've never done before.
Lars von Trier -
I owe a lot to my dad, just for having provided the wrestling business for us to get into.
Owen Hart -
I never, never lend any of my own clothes for parts any more because you lose your clothes; they become the characters' clothes, and you can never wear them again.
Hannah Murray -
Having our fundamental assumptions about life challenged is never a comfortable thing.
Maajid Nawaz
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Growing up, I really looked up to the classic Hollywood actors like Spencer Tracy, Robert Mitchum, and Peter Falk. I love character actors - I've never wanted to be the leading guy.
David Harewood -
By no means was it really teed up for him.
Donald T. Regan -
I've never let anyone talk me into not believing in myself.
Muhammad Ali -
If you spend a lot of energy on things that are wastes of time, then you waste energy, get sick, and die faster.
James Altucher -
You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.
Mandy Patinkin -
I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.
Sam Phillips