Billy Joe Saunders Quotes

You've got to look and pick your shots - and that's where your class and skill comes out.

Billy Joe Saunders

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• It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • May
  • Truth
  • Easy

• I'm part Cuban, so anything with a good beat like Rumberos de Cuba gets me going.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • Good
  • Me
  • Cuba

• What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language?

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • You
  • Know
  • Language

• Skateboarding was everything to us growing up. It changes the way you see the world: you spend all day looking for ditches.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Up
  • World
  • Growing

• Radio was my lifeline as a kid growing up in Winnipeg in the 1950s. It connected me with the wider world outside our little prairie city.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Up
  • World
  • Growing

• I don't believe in post-racial or post-gay or post-anything, but I do think within a certain group of friends, what matters less is the specificities of race and sexuality, and what matters more is the shared experience, shared language and shared cultural touch points.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Believe
  • Experience
  • Friends

• If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Light
  • Eyes
  • Universe

• People think that there is so much money in tennis, but the reality is unless you're ranked in about the top 50 you don't earn much at all. It is hard to support yourself travelling the world, to be away from home most of the year and to pay for a coach to help you become a better player.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • People
  • World
  • Money

• My family never missed a visit in eight months, ever. I cried coming out. I didn't cry coming in. There's a big difference. I believe that God put me there for a reason, Incarceration is serious.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • God
  • Believe
  • Family

• Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

  

  Ovid
  • Good
  • Day
  • Sympathy

• Color always vexed me because I would fight with the media I was using. I love coloring in Photoshop, and it's freed me to pursue ideas and techniques I wouldn't have otherwise attempted. Since I get to take an assignment from concept to final execution, I have more freedom in my idea-making processes.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • Love
  • Freedom
  • Color

• I grew up in Canada, man - we all had rinks in our backyards because we'd ice down the grass with a hose and build a skating rink.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Up
  • Man
  • Ice

• I'm sorry to say I'm very lizard-like. My skin is dry, so covering my face in greasy antioxidants is a better alternative.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Better
  • Sorry
  • Skin

• I don't really consider myself to be famous.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Myself
  • Famous
  • Really

• Even now, when I try and think of band names just randomly, I'm so thankful that 'fun.' is the name of the band. I never really think twice about it. It is so simple and so easy.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Fun
  • Simple
  • Band

• Eating a lot is an occupational hazard but it's a pretty great problem to have. I spend a lot of time eating sweets on TV - cake, cupcakes, donuts, and pudding. It's a dream job, but at the same time there will be days where I wake up knowing I will eat 15 desserts!

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• I'd kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frogs.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Promise
  • Kiss
  • Charming

• Justice will win - because might does not make right, and the only path to lasting peace is when people know that their dignity will be respected and that their rights will be upheld. And citizens, like nations, will never settle for a world where the big are allowed to bully the small. Sooner or later, they fight back.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Small

• Even if we artists are all very privileged, there's a constant frustration about how to do more or better, and never being satisfied.

  

  Jean-Michel Jarre
  • Frustration

• I am always trying to put myself inside: Every dress I do, I think, 'If I were a woman, would I wear it?'

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Trying

• The role I really want to sing is Elisabetta from 'Don Carlo.'

  

  Anna Netrebko

• We get all excited about collaborations. You get excited to hear that Rihanna has something, because Rihanna is a singer, and she has amazing fashion. You want to see what she would create. I don't get upset and think, 'Someone else is going to do better than me.' You're like, 'Oh, good for her.'

  

  Coco Rocha
  • Good
  • She
  • Amazing

• You've got to look and pick your shots - and that's where your class and skill comes out.

  

  Billy Joe Saunders