Bob Riley Quotes

Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed.

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• I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Sound

• We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • People
  • Development
  • Islamic

• I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm going to go and do something about it.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Film
  • Person
  • Certain

• I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Up
  • Important
  • Change

• In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Believe
  • Food
  • Me

• You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • You
  • Know
  • Person

• We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • People
  • Life
  • Fear

• What I find is that it's the middle-aged authors who have lived a life who have the most important, interesting voices. They just need someone to give them the key to unlock the door.

  

  Fiona McIntosh
  • Life
  • Important
  • Interesting

• The minute I saw the front page of the 'Daily Telegraph' - me with my arm around the latest 'X-Factor' contestant - I realised I'd gone into a new realm.

  

  Flume
  • Me
  • Daily
  • Page

• For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Death
  • Gay
  • Enough

• I think the system is broken; most people think that it's broken. And we think that what we're going to do is invigorate the political system and allow for this country to be turned around.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • Country
  • Political

• I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • People
  • Think
  • Early

• I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Want
  • Die
  • Identity

• My father was dark skinned because he was Tatar. Sometimes Tatars can look Brazilian.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Father
  • Dark
  • Sometimes

• Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Way
  • Dance
  • Songs

• I know the government needs to ensure economic growth... we just hope it takes care of the environment, too.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Hope
  • Government
  • Environment

• Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Child
  • Give
  • Shape

• Whether your commander is a man or woman doesn't really matter when it comes to getting your mission done.

  

  Eileen Collins
  • Woman
  • Mission
  • Commander

• I do what I do because I like doing it. I'm well paid for it. I get far too much adulation compared with what it's worth.

  

  Jeremy Irons

• There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.

  

  John Wooden
  • Time
  • Trust

• Do not go by oral tradition, by lineage of teaching, by hearsay, by a collection of texts, by logic, by inferential reasoning, by reasoned cogitation, by the acceptance of a view after pondering it, by the seeming competence of a speaker, or because you think, ‘The ascetic is our teacher.’4 But when you know for yourselves, ‘These things are unwholesome; these things are blamable; these things are censured by the wise; these things, if undertaken and practiced, lead to harm and suffering,’ then you should abandon them.

  

  Bhikkhu Bodhi
  • Suffering
  • Teaching
  • Tradition

• Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed.

  

  Bob Riley
  • Hero