Charles Kettering Quotes
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.Charles Kettering
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If you're in a hit movie, it's good to be in another hit movie straight away.
Val Kilmer -
It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
J. B. Smoove -
Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
Dan Aykroyd -
But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.
Ian Hamilton Finlay -
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
Samuel Butler -
I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
Adam Brody
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The reality is that not only were we massively hit in 2008 when the bubble burst, and then we realized how deep the social gap, the economic gap in the world is between the super rich and the poor; also, we realized how impacted the environment has been. So there's been a physical consequence of that.
Edgar Ramirez -
I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
Rafael Nadal -
The addition of nuts in salad... I always find to be beneficial.
Larry David -
Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.
Sam Brownback -
The weather was turning cold and I remember that Dante was using nothing but natural light as his electric department was away, prepping the scene in the cave. We stayed on that rock for the whole day.
Madeleine Stowe -
More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens.
Zac Goldsmith
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New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.
Sachin Tendulkar -
I used to feel very lonely on the team. The boys would all pair up.
Victoria Pendleton -
Parsi theater was known for melodrama.
Irrfan Khan -
I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.
Tanith Lee -
The best times I had on film sets were the times the director let me express myself, but those were rare.
Mara Wilson -
If I'm doing something in fashion, I will try to respect the 'laws' of the business, but I will try to keep my integrity and my respect for the designers and for my readers.
Carine Roitfeld
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The more I practice the luckier I get.
Arnold Palmer -
Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.
John Selden -
Practice and practice and practice, and you'll make friends all over the world.
Lionel Ferbos -
Good evening. A President who lied us into a war and, in so doing, needlessly killed 3,584 of our family and friends and neighbors; a President whose administration initially tried to destroy the first man to nail that lie; a President whose henchmen then ruined the career of the intelligence asset that was his wife when intelligence assets were never more essential to the viability of the Republic; a President like that has tonight freed from the prospect of prison the only man ever to come to trial for one of the component felonies in what may be the greatest crime of this young century.
Keith Olbermann -
We don't need as much as we have. Hardly any of us need as much money as we have. It's true what they say about the best things in life being free.
Donald Miller -
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.
Charles Kettering