Bob Fosse Quotes

If you think you can do better, then do better. Don't compete with anyone; just yourself.

Bob Fosse

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• The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

  

  Ovid
  • May
  • Ability
  • Will

• As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Remember
  • Forever
  • I Can

• I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Writing
  • Kind
  • Like

• I'm not the kind of guy who has best friends.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Friends
  • Guy
  • Kind

• I didn't want to get pregnant while commanding an assault helicopter company and, before I knew it, I was deployed and missed out on many of my childbearing years.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Want
  • Years
  • Company

• Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty.

  

  Zoe Lofgren
  • Enjoy
  • Poverty
  • Retirement

• ICOs are obviously a new and interesting form of funding for blockchain-based protocols, but it's not clear that all of them comply with U.S. securities laws or that all of them are companies that have good native use cases for new coins.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Good
  • Interesting
  • Laws

• Monks throng like a kennel of pups from disputing with the masters who instruct them whether the run of the wind is one, or one the ocean's waters or one the spark of fire - an illimitable clamour.

  

  Taliesin
  • Fire
  • Wind
  • Ocean

• To me, it's extremely interesting that men, perfectly honest, enthusiastic over their work, can so completely fool themselves.

  

  Irving Langmuir
  • Work
  • Men
  • Interesting

• 5) Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Real

• Where, oh, where's the chain to fling,One that will chain Cupid's wing-One that will have longer powerThan the April sun or shower?

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Sun
  • April

• Among politicians and businessman, Pragmatism is the current term for 'To hell with our children.'

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Children

• I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, 'This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass!'

  

  Lewis Mumford
  • Happy
  • Words
  • Die

• As I traveled, talking about these issues, I met so many young people who had lost hope. Some were depressed; some were apathetic; some were angry and violent. And when I talked to them, they all more or less felt this way because we had compromised their future and the world of tomorrow was not going to sustain their great-grandchildren.

  

  Jane Goodall
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• Happiness lies so far from man, but he must begin by daring to will it.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Lies

• Speaking and singing were equally common in my house. I started songwriting about the time that I started forming sentences.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Time
  • House
  • Singing

• Gentlemen, start your egos.

  

  Billy Crystal

• My first film was a movie shot in 1974. I was 18 on that movie set. It was called 'Big Bad Mama.' I turned 19 on the next movie I worked on, which was a black 'Blazing Saddles.' I worked in the art department. It was called 'Darktown Strutters.'

  

  Bill Paxton
  • Art
  • Bad
  • Movie

• I have a very difficult time describing my music. Because I run into people in the hardware store and they go, 'Oh, you're a musician. So what kind of music do you play?' And I go, 'Uh, I've been doin' this for many years - I don't know what to call it.'

  

  Les Claypool
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• To write a blues song is to regiment riots and pluck gems from graves.

  

  Etheridge Knight
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Riot

• China, I didn't take it seriously; it was a lack of professionalism. They delayed to send us a written offer - It was a disaster.

  

  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

• There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Wise Man

• People are going to write things about you, but you have to take the good with the bad, so you shouldn't take it very seriously. If you take it to heart, it'll get very difficult to deal with. So, just take it with a pinch of salt.

  

  Mohammad Azharuddin
  • People
  • Heart
  • Difficult

• If you think you can do better, then do better. Don't compete with anyone; just yourself.

  

  Bob Fosse