Bob Crosby Quotes

He wanted me to learn to stand on my own feet, and to make it impossible for me to thank him.

Bob Crosby

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• As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Dead
  • Ghost
  • Civil

• If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Different
  • Think
  • Chance

• I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.

  

  Kajol
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Hope

• The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • May
  • Director
  • Fact

• The farthest place on earth is the hour that is just over. Make the best use of the hour that has just begun!

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Earth
  • Best
  • Place

• I don't think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Looking

• My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Mind
  • Brain
  • Opportunities

• You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Long
  • Day
  • Never

• Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good for themselves and far more for others than politicians spending money they didn't have to work to earn.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Good
  • Work
  • Money

• What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Time
  • Rest
  • Environmental

• It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Things
  • Look
  • Depends

• For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Power
  • Learning
  • Myself

• The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Up
  • Different
  • Business

• As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect our agents and managers to know who we are and to see who we are and offer us a part or send us out and submit us.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Work
  • Know
  • Wait

• The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Simple
  • The Right Thing

• Parading about in the latest gowns and making dull platitudes for an entire evening doesn't constitute social success in my book.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Book
  • Success

• For any humanist such an incident would cause indescribable grief. But at the same time creating disturbances (ashanti), indiscipline, and expressing outrage (akrosh) is not the solution.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Time
  • Grief

• And, growing tired, we turn aside at last,Remember our secret selves, seek out our towers,Lay weary hands on the banisters, and climb;Climbing, each, to his little four-square dreamOf love or lust or beauty or death or crime.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Remember
  • Death
  • Growing

• Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

  

  Jefferson Davis
  • History

• It was a lot of fun working with J.J. Abrams. He got me to drive a Corvette, which was pretty awesome, and jumping out of it was even cooler.

  

  Jimmy Bennett
  • Fun
  • Pretty
  • Awesome

• I think most Americans probably believe that our relationship with Japan began in 1941. In fact, obviously, it began in 1854 when Commodore Perry sailed into Yokohama harbor and threatened to burn it down unless they would open up to trade with us. The imperial impulse was first ours historically.

  

  Edward Zwick
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Relationship

• The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the problem with awards and stuff like that is that it always affects the egos, and everyone gets stained by it in some way. And that can be fine and very innocent, but it can be horrible as well.

  

  Danny Boyle
  • Great
  • Ego
  • Innocent

• I'm really eager to play the BWF Destination Dubai World Superseries Finals, especially after my enjoyable visit to the city.

  

  Chen Long
  • World
  • City

• He wanted me to learn to stand on my own feet, and to make it impossible for me to thank him.

  

  Bob Crosby