Kenny Wormald Quotes

You have to be determined, and be able to accept, 'No.' I've heard, 'No,' a thousand times, and I've heard, 'Yes,' a handful of times.

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• The last album, 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run.' I was really proud of, but then I didn't actually know whether it was going to come out on any label at all. So I didn't know if anyone was going to hear it. Then of course we ended up doing another EP after that called 'Closer.'

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Up
  • Know
  • Proud

• And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Like
  • Write
  • Lyrics

• When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• I don't have a problem with recognition... It's very, very rarely about who I am, it's always, 'I love your work.'... It's always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, 'Oh, you're a famous personality.'

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
  • Work
  • Problem
  • Personality

• Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • May
  • Reality
  • Professional

• The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Food
  • Water
  • Cooking

• I can tell you that when you're willing to give your life up to see a dream through, the reward is great.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • People
  • Up
  • Chance

• My wife, Keisha, came home once, and I had these violinists playing for her, and I'd prepared dinner for her, and I write poems. She's pretty amazing, so I like to celebrate that. She's really taught me how to celebrate life; that's something I've learned.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Home
  • She

• If you decide you want to be treated good, and you treat someone else good, or you want to learn something, it's information. It's getting the right, good information.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Good
  • Information
  • Treat

• If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny.

  

  Kate O'Brien
  • Funny
  • Breaks
  • Bends

• With rap, it's a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take 'em the way they wanna take 'em.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • People
  • Funny
  • Rap

• There would be plenty of justification to raise revenues in order to subsidize businesses that employ low-wage workers. But there can be no justification for pandering to the economy's entire bottom half merely to attract its votes.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Economy
  • Half
  • Workers

• We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Different
  • Need
  • First

• None shall rule but the humble, And none but Toil shall have.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Humble

• The questions are always more important than the answers.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Important

• When you laugh at something, you don’t fear it anymore.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Fear

• So things have gradually and gradually gotten worse and worse until the country is absolutely on the rocks now, and the people are suffering. And this is our hope, because so many people are suffering, have been persecuted and have been told 'Get into line, or else', and they know what 'or else' means.

  

  Ian Smith
  • People
  • Country
  • Hope

• Although it takes place in Gotham City and fundamentally it is a movie about Batman, Chris wanted us to play everything for truth. The actors he chose for this movie are into realism.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Truth
  • Movie
  • City

• Strong people don't need strong leaders.

  

  Ella Baker
  • People
  • Strong

• On the mission I brought a flag from China, I brought the stone sculpture from Hong Kong, and I brought a scroll from Taiwan. And what I wanted to do is, because as I was going up and I am this Chinese-American, I wanted to represent Chinese people from the major population centers around the world where there are a lot of Chinese people. And so, I wanted to bring something from each of those places and so it really wasn't a political thing and I hope people saw it that way. I was born here, I was raised in the U.S., and I'm an American first, but also very proud of my heritage.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value. Education can, alone, cause it to reveal its treasures, and enable mankind to benefit there from.

  

  Bahá'u'lláh
  • Education
  • Alone
  • Value

• You have to be determined, and be able to accept, 'No.' I've heard, 'No,' a thousand times, and I've heard, 'Yes,' a handful of times.

  

  Kenny Wormald