Deborah Joy Winans Quotes

I got my B.F.A. at Wayne State. Moved to L.A. and got my M.F.A. from Cal Arts in acting and just worked hard.

Deborah Joy Winans

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• I always had the feeling that Bleachers is my soul.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Soul
  • Feeling
  • Always

• A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Thought
  • Invisible

• The best thing I can say is professional football is a business. When they are recruiting football players, they are not recruiting model citizens. Everybody has to be aware of this. What's being selected for the NFL is the ability to play and perform on Sunday afternoons. Everything else is secondary.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Business
  • Best
  • Football

• It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Information
  • Management

• I got beat up sometimes in the girls' bathroom.

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Sometimes
  • Beat

• To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Prison

• Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Romance

• Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • People
  • Truth
  • Myself

• In my own spiritual journey, I became a swami on the Hindu path of Bhakti. In the Hindu tradition, a swami is a monk who forgoes regular family life for the purpose of making the whole world his family and channels his full energy into spiritual practice, devotion to God and service to humanity.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Life
  • World
  • God

• The America's Cup is like driving your Lamborghini to the Grand Prix track to watch the charter buses race.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • Driving

• Every time an Arab leader truly wanted peace, they got it. If the Palestinians truly want peace, we will make peace.

  

  Benjamin Netanyahu
  • Time
  • Peace

• Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine,And all, save the spirit of man, is divine?

  

  Lord Byron

• I stood in front of a hundred and one critics at a critic's convention and a critic asked me, 'Miss Cho, isn't it true that your management asked you to lose weight to play the part of yourself in your own TV show?' Gail the producer grabbed the mike from me and said, 'There is no truth in that whatsoever.' I...was so...hungry.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Truth
  • True
  • Management

• The same way people are now paying a couple thousand dollars to fly to other parts of the world, people will be paying $50,000 to spend a weekend on a space station.

  

  Alan Shepard
  • People
  • World
  • Space

• Of course, there was Hobart. The Inspector was probably insane, but that was all to the good. And he had one particular aspiration which Shadwell knew he might one day need to turn to his own ends. That was, to lead-as Hobart put it-a righteous crusade.

  

  Clive Barker
  • Good

• I've never stopped writing, I've never slowed down just because I don't have something on the radio or a No. 1 or No. 2 record. That doesn't mean that I'm not in the studio planting seeds.

  

  Jason Boyd
  • Writing

• I drove to Nashville a few times, met with some people and hung out, went to the Opry, and that kind of stuff. I made the decision - you've got to be present to win, so I packed it up and moved out here, and it's been great. It's been the best decision I ever made.

  

  Luke Combs
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I don't ever enjoy time away from the game. But it does make you appreciate what you have.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Time
  • Game

• The Law is the true embodiment of everything that's excellent; it has no kind of fault or flaw and I, my Lords, embody the Law.

  

  W. S. Gilbert
  • True
  • Law
  • Faults

• But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Think

• I enjoy music that is commercial. I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations, you have to always consider that. Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music, and you always have to keep that in mind. It's not so much financial as making sure it gets the shot and is heard on the radio.

  

  Babyface
  • Music
  • Different
  • Mind

• I'm coming back in... and it's the saddest moment of my life.

  

  Edward Higgins White
  • Moment
  • Coming Back
  • Saddest

• I got my B.F.A. at Wayne State. Moved to L.A. and got my M.F.A. from Cal Arts in acting and just worked hard.

  

  Deborah Joy Winans