Garrison Keillor Quotes
I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.Garrison Keillor
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
Jack Straw -
The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.
Kate Winslet -
I felt pressure to follow in Madonna's footsteps, and I didn't want to base my career on sex. So I began to change how I saw myself.
La India -
I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.
Forest Whitaker -
We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.
A. James Clark -
I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
Orhan Pamuk
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
Rachel Platten -
When you're an artist, you're expected to describe yourself in interviews every day in five words.
Halsey -
My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
Ram Kapoor -
I'm a realist and I always have been. Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee -
Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
G. Stanley Hall -
If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.
Irwin Corey
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If you want to lead, you better love people. Even if you don't like them, you have to love them enough to tell them the truth.
Patrick Lencioni -
Spiritual formation in a Christian tradition answers a specific human question: 'What kind of person am I going to be?' It is the process of establishing the character of Christ in the person. That's all it is.
Dallas Willard -
I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.
Mahesh Babu -
I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
Barton Gellman -
A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it's going to work. You can't always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you're needed most.
Nancy Pelosi -
The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
Adam Grant
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
Zainab Salbi -
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
Oliver Goldsmith -
I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
Salman Rushdie -
Nobody has single-handedly done more for the U.S. than me.
Bobby Fischer -
The problem in the 19th century with information was that we lived in a culture of information scarcity, and so humanity addressed that problem beginning with photography and telegraphy and the - in the 1840s. We tried to solve the problem of overcoming the limitations of space, time, and form.
Neil Postman -
I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
Garrison Keillor