Don Kardong Quotes

There's always somebody doing something more extreme than you are. It used to be that if you ran the marathon, that was the end of it.

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• People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.

  

  Sam Neill
  • People
  • Movie
  • Star

• I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Hope
  • Day
  • Like

• Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Real
  • Fool
  • Genius

• I have three closets in my bedroom.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Three
  • Bedroom
  • Closets

• The feeling of insecurity is inimical to our sense of wellbeing, as it causes anxiety and stress, which harms our physical and mental health. It is no surprise then that, according to some surveys, workers across the world value job security more highly than wages.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • World
  • Job
  • Feeling

• There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.

  

  Wale
  • America
  • You
  • Win

• Yes, I did and a lot of my friends who are in the same program as I were very much supportive, and the most important thing they said to me is do not let this interfere with what you have to do in taking car of yourself. That was the most important thing.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Important
  • Friends
  • Car

• I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Help
  • Gay
  • Born

• I believe in the power of weakness.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Weakness

• When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Life
  • Real
  • Want

• I learned how to play mandolin for 'A Mighty Wind!'

  

  Parker Posey
  • Play
  • Wind
  • How

• I was born in New York in 1904.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Born
  • New
  • New York

• Everybody wants to solve everybody's problems.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Problems
  • Wants
  • Solve

• Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• You may have heard that back in the States there are some people who are smoking grass. I don't know how you feel, but it's sure easier than cutting the stuff.

  

  Pat Morita
  • People
  • May
  • Know

• Less than two weeks before my 34th birthday, I bought pots. Most people were amazed that I did not previously own pots, but that was before I explained that I had never used my oven, and used my stovetop for my dishrack.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • People
  • Own
  • Birthday

• It's a challenge to do satire when the thing you're satirizing is almost beyond satire, but I think that's a challenge for everybody.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Think
  • You
  • Challenge

• I found the hedge-fund guys I met all to be very, very concentrated listeners - watchful and articulate and quick to defend, if needed. They all seemed to have this contained sitting posture. The legs, if they weren't crossed at right angles, tended to be close over the knee, their hands put together.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Together
  • Hands
  • Posture

• 'Tis not need we know our every thought Or see the work shop where each mask is wrought Wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, Careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit And serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Need
  • Mask
  • Workshop

• First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

  

  Epictetus

• How shall I ever tell Aunt Shaw?' she whispered, after some time of delicious silence. 'Let me speak to her.' 'Oh, no! I owe it to her, - but what will she say?' 'I can guess. Her first exclamation will be, "That man!" ' 'Hush!' said Margaret, 'or I shall try and show you your mother's indignant tones as she says, "That woman!"

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • Woman
  • Silence
  • Whispered

• I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Woman
  • Don't Mind
  • Man's World

• The human-made world is mostly beyond our comprehension. Our daily survival depends on seemingly magical gizmos that provide our food, water, clothing, comfort, transportation, education, well-being, and amusement.

  

  Mark Frauenfelder
  • World
  • Education
  • Food

• There's always somebody doing something more extreme than you are. It used to be that if you ran the marathon, that was the end of it.

  

  Don Kardong