Derek Blasberg Quotes

Although it's not something I'm particularly proud of, I'm willing to admit that, in addition to whiling away the long stretches of time in the air and waiting in airport lounges reading the 'New Yorker' and 'New York Times' on my Kindle, I've picked up the occasional tabloid magazine.

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• God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

  

  Quintilian
  • World
  • God
  • Character

• You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Attention
  • Study
  • Waiting

• It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes on the Prize' happened in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi isn't really known for any other touchstone to the movement, other than Medgar Evers being killed. There were sit-ins and riots and atrocities.

  

  Tate Taylor
  • History
  • Eyes
  • Forget

• I have more friends in New York than Paris.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Friends
  • New
  • New York

• For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Same
  • Circumstances

• I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.

  

  B. B. King
  • Women
  • Most
  • Singer

• You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Job
  • Kids
  • Wife

• A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Great
  • High

• We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Up
  • Week
  • Out

• It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • True
  • Alone
  • Leader

• If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • People
  • Up
  • Sports

• Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Me
  • Literature
  • Nervous

• Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Money
  • Remember
  • Control

• I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Power
  • Friends
  • Fame

• I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Better
  • Loss
  • Getting Better

• I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called 'A Banquet for the Moon.' It was a weird play.

  

  Mako
  • School
  • America
  • Weird

• I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Practice
  • Better
  • See

• Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Understand
  • Did
  • Rehab

• The games I'm playing have much more to do with using the language of power and the vocabulary of power to construct new sentences. It's about pointing to empire and control and domination and misogyny and all those social ills in the work, but it's not necessarily taking a position. Oftentimes, it's actually embodying it.

  

  Kehinde Wiley
  • Work
  • Power
  • Control

• Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Brave
  • Grieving

• Music gave me something that was not only good for me - it gave me something to work on, something to be proud of and something that I really loved and have a love for - but also music was good for other people because you put joy into the world.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• We deserved it. I mean, if you get a pummeling, you deserved it. But isn't it wonderful to remember a time that America was once so innocent that all we had to worry about was the next 'Batman' movie?

  

  Joel Schumacher
  • Time
  • Remember
  • America

• What we do is provide a suggestion. We say, 'We're queer. We're going to do this; we're going to open up the space to queer thought.' People don't have to show up, but they do.

  

  Ben Hopkins
  • People
  • Up
  • Space

• Although it's not something I'm particularly proud of, I'm willing to admit that, in addition to whiling away the long stretches of time in the air and waiting in airport lounges reading the 'New Yorker' and 'New York Times' on my Kindle, I've picked up the occasional tabloid magazine.

  

  Derek Blasberg
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