Bill Shoemaker Quotes

If Jack Nicklaus can win the Masters at 46, I can win the Kentucky Derby at 54.

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• My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I was younger, but unfortunately I had to face the fact that I was not really talented!

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • Dream
  • Year
  • Jazz

• I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Freedom
  • Hand
  • Fall

• I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • Home
  • Wine
  • Lunch

• We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Work
  • Future
  • Democracy

• I didn't really grow up playing video games. I had an original Nintendo after the original Nintendo was cool.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Up
  • Cool
  • Grow Up

• Ever since I was little, my mum used to choose an outfit for me and lay it on the bed so I'd know what I was wearing the next day. I never went to a uniformed school, so I always had an outfit – and I never really grew out of that, I don't think.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • School
  • Day
  • Always

• When I looked at the skeleton of 'Damn Yankees,' I saw an indestructible story, absolutely original characters, one of the freshest, sassiest American scores of the century, and some outmoded equipment.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • American
  • Story
  • Original

• There are many women who came before me who didn't really have the same opportunities that I have had. That's why I always wanted to be a great ambassador - not only today's generation - but for the women who really didn't have a voice, but who paved the way for me.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Great
  • Women
  • Why

• Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • First
  • Example
  • Conservation

• Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Fiction
  • Short
  • Experiments

• With Caavo, you don't have to know the device name, the network name, the service name. Just which show you want to watch, regardless of whether it's live, recorded, downloaded or streaming.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Live
  • Service
  • Name

• I don't have an off-duty wardrobe.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Wardrobe

• I think they tried the 3-D revolution at least five times throughout history, and it never seemed to work. However, finally, 'Avatar' did it.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Work
  • History
  • Revolution

• The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • Important
  • First

• I wasn't really a dark kid, but I was in my head a lot. I got good grades all through my 16 years of Catholic school, but I was always writing these weird - and, I have to say, really bad - stories, filled with murder.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Good
  • Writing
  • School

• With any project I work on - not just 'True Detective' - I don't feel the need just to play a strong woman. I don't want the audience to say, 'Oh, she was so strong.' I want to play characters that are flawed and interesting.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Work
  • True
  • Strong

• For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Man
  • Flower
  • Bird

• They used to say it was bad for Indians to drink, but it's bad for anybody. When they drink they lose their cool, a lot of us. Like when we played with Sonny Boy, I would never get paid, you know. He would drink up all the money.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Up
  • Money
  • Bad

• She waits for me; my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs;I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise.

  

  Rain
  • She
  • Earth

• My grandmother was divorced, and she had 10 children herself. She never finished high school. She started selling lace on the side of the road and then grew that into a multimillion-dollar business - a retail store selling mostly furniture and appliances.

  

  Ann-Marie Campbell
  • Children
  • School
  • She

• The coach and the players know after the Italy defeat just how important this match is. We anticipate a strong reaction from the team.

  

  Oliver Bierhoff
  • Important
  • Players
  • Coach

• Nothing makes the minority leader more mad than when his side is forced to play by its own rules.

  

  John Cornyn
  • Mad

• I don't really have anything to say. Basketball is not a game that you can play with your mouth. It needs action to prove yourself.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Game
  • Action
  • Basketball

• If Jack Nicklaus can win the Masters at 46, I can win the Kentucky Derby at 54.

  

  Bill Shoemaker