Dawn Fraser Quotes

Make yourself an example, achieve it, but don't hurt anyone on the way up. I don't think I did that.

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• Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Dark
  • Door
  • Shadow

• Actually, I had no idea what shooting hoops was or were. I thought dunking was something you did with a beignet and a cup of steaming coffee. I wasn't exactly sure what a Knick was.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Thought
  • Idea
  • Coffee

• I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but 'Cabin In The Woods' cranks it up a few notches and becomes outrageous and totally bizarre.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Up
  • Mean
  • Supernatural

• Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.

  

  Maluma
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Up
  • Real
  • Kids

• I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Up
  • New
  • New York

• My mother witnessed the martyrdom of her husband, Hajj Malik Shabazz, Malcolm X, on Sunday, February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. My older sisters, Attallah, Qubilah and I were seated with our mother up front and stage right.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Up
  • Mother
  • City

• When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • People
  • Up
  • Home

• I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going up, we didn't have hot water, and we turned it into an amazing adventure.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Together
  • House

• My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• If you bet on Microsoft, you are not going to ask anymore, 'Hey, where is the innovation?' The challenge going forward is how do we keep up with it.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • Up
  • You
  • Challenge

• You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Life
  • Up
  • Dream

• I'm not going to comment about potential jobs in the future because that's a rabbit hole to go down and get caught up in, but all I'll say is I'll go where the good scripts are.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Good
  • Future

• If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

  

  Larry Page
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • World
  • Music
  • Crazy

• I couldn't breathe. I - I went into - literally, my kidneys stopped functioning. They stopped, you know, processing the fluid that was starting to build up in my body.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Up
  • You
  • Know

• When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Up
  • Long
  • Remember

• I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Up
  • You
  • Culture

• I personally take cues directly from the script, then I like to surprise the other actors. But you must maintain control on a level and see how far you can go up, down or out emotionally. You have to balance the craft with spontaneity.

  

  Lusia Strus
  • Up
  • Control
  • Balance

• Time is infinite, but we are not infinite in it.

  

  Daphne Guinness
  • Time

• I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Help

• History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • People
  • History
  • Bible

• Make yourself an example, achieve it, but don't hurt anyone on the way up. I don't think I did that.

  

  Dawn Fraser
  • Up
  • Hurt