Derek Jeter Quotes

I want to have a family.

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• I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.

  

  Laurance Rockefeller
  • Good
  • Music
  • Art

• The clash of civilizations or the clash between Islam and the West may be cliches. But there is an even bigger cliche around: that this clash actually goes on within Islam, between reformists and fanatics.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • May
  • Islam
  • West

• I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • Kids
  • Passion
  • Fire

• Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Experience
  • Air
  • Resistance

• I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.

  

  Fairuza Balk
  • Up
  • Color
  • Texas

• The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Emotions
  • Advantage
  • Lead

• I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Teach
  • Guitar
  • Smoke

• Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Trying
  • Kind
  • Athlete

• Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Family
  • Texas
  • Farm

• The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Best
  • Trouble
  • Possible

• I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • People
  • Up
  • Experience

• A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Different
  • Think
  • Want

• All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Best
  • Focus
  • Story

• You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Believe
  • Truth

• In the film industry, you are fictitious, just like the characters you play. It has a lot do with a perception about you, and not necessarily you. You are successful because people like that image of you on screen.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • People
  • Play
  • Perception

• Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Country
  • American
  • College

• Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.

  

  Vic Fuentes
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Thoughts

• I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Bad
  • Feeling

• I started out in theater, and then I got a job on a soap in New York. With a soap opera, its every day, all year long - there's no downtime, and you're shooting a show a day.

  

  Linden Ashby
  • Long
  • Job

• I think people assume that whatever kind of music you make is the music you listen to. Don't get me wrong, I listen to tons of pop music and all the music that really inspires Best Coast is very straightforward '50s and '60s pop music, but I've been listening to R&B and rap since I was a kid. I grew up in L.A. It's part of the culture. I listen to anything.

  

  Bethany Cosentino
  • Music
  • Culture
  • Inspires

• I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.

  

  Sally Field
  • Up
  • Great
  • Family

• The theme of exile is attractive to me, because it's sort of like the family business. Not just music, but travel.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Music
  • Family
  • Business

• I want to have a family.

  

  Derek Jeter
  • Family