Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III (Desi Arnaz) Quotes

Nobody bats 500. We all make mistakes.

Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III

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• It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?

  

  Lakshmi Mittal
  • True
  • Identity
  • Interests

• I'm not politically correct.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Politically Correct

• The one thing I do know is that I'm the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Music
  • Hope
  • Best

• I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Think
  • Today
  • Man

• As a musician usually music is your way out.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Music
  • Way
  • Musician

• I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Kind
  • Passion
  • Old

• If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Know
  • Mean
  • Silly

• None of us, remember, knew that 9/11 was gonna happen. We didn't live in a state of anxiety and fear about Osama Bin Laden. The CIA might have, and they failed to prevent it. But the general public didn't have any knowledge. Now we have knowledge of it, and it's a very clear and present danger in our lives.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Live
  • Remember
  • Fear

• I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Power
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• I don't like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Better
  • Grow
  • Comfort Zone

• I like to read novels where the author seems knowledgeable, like someone you know you could walk calmly next to through a complicated situation, and he or she would be alive to its meaning and ironies. And you wouldn't even have to mention them out loud to each other.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • She
  • Know
  • Author

• When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us, I later came to believe I was the most qualified person who ever worked there.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Believe
  • Parents
  • Culture

• I really didn't grow up religious, and I didn't grow up acknowledging my Muslim identity. For me, I was a British Pakistani.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Up
  • Religious
  • Identity

• Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Free
  • Someone
  • Loving

• I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Think
  • Government
  • Saying

• With 'Dazed and Confused,' I got the high school experience I didn't get to have.

  

  Parker Posey
  • School
  • Experience
  • High

• You never know what's going to play into what's worthy of getting encapsulated into a song.

  

  Feist
  • Song
  • Know
  • Never

• While the women just want to have consequence-free sex anti-contraceptive argument is often trotted out by latter-day social conservatives, such a view is a cruel and misogynist oversimplification. A more realistic assessment of the struggle for effective contraception would be to see it as the struggle to achieve some level of control over the single most dangerous, resource-intensive, and biologically crucial activity in which human beings regularly engage.

  

  Hanne Blank
  • Women
  • Consequence-free sex
  • Anti-contraceptive argument

• It is a maxim of cryptology that what one man can devise, another can unravel. This principle keeps armies of tax lawyers and accountants employed, but adds nothing to our national productivity.

  

  Walter Wriston
  • Productivity
  • Maxim
  • Devise

• Well, I like songs that have like a little bit of quirkiness to them.

  

  John Roger Stephens

• Well the planet I've got a chance to visit is Earth, and Earth's principal features are chaos and war. I think I'd be a fool to spend years here and never have a look.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Thinking
  • War
  • Earth

• When the Industrial Revolution started, the amount of carbon sitting underneath Britain in the form of coal was as big as the amount of carbon sitting under Saudi Arabia in the form of oil, and this carbon powered the Industrial Revolution, it put the 'Great' in Great Britain, and led to Britain's temporary world domination.

  

  David J. C. MacKay
  • World
  • Great
  • Revolution

• Nobody bats 500. We all make mistakes.

  

  Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III