Donald Byrd Quotes

Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.

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• Being an actress wasn't a plan at all, so what's happened to me is very strange. Life isn't very normal, even though I'm still very much a normal girl. I ride the subway, I ride the bus, and all of that.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Ride

• My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Love
  • Support
  • Son

• Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • America
  • Health
  • Crazy

• Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
  • Up
  • Black
  • Doing

• It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me. I wouldn't be anywhere without Victoria's Secret.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Career
  • Me
  • Amazing

• Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Good
  • Great
  • Hope

• The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Truth
  • Simple
  • Said

• I have lots and lots of party clothes. I mean real party clothes.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Real
  • Party
  • Clothes

• All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • May
  • Truth

• Working with Jack Albertson was one of my great joys.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Great
  • Working
  • Jack

• My dad used to give me a lot of spankings. Anything I did wrong, he was on me. I was raised by a strict disciplinarian. He kind of laid down the law.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Law
  • Me
  • Dad

• When I was in school, sport was given utmost importance. I think it's fantastic for character building, for team playing, and I think it's a great profile for a nation. One in every six people on Earth is an Indian, and I look forward to the day when we can compete with the heavyweights of the sporting world and do well in the medal tally.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Creative

• Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Mind
  • Mean
  • Nothing

• Just as the lunar landings inspired many young people to consider careers in space and related fields, the solution of the challenging instrumentation problems presented in space science can inspire young people to push beyond the current state of the art.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • People
  • Art
  • Science

• I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Money
  • House
  • Kid

• I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Always
  • Clay
  • Henry

• I first started going to shows when I was about 16 - seeing local bands. I mean, I loved music before that, and I played a bit of guitar when I was younger and thought maybe I'd become a guitar teacher or something, but when I saw other kids doing it, I was like, 'Whoa, these are great bands! I can do it, too.'

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Great
  • Music
  • Kids

• People who can spread ideas regardless of what those ideas are, win.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Ideas
  • Win
  • Spread

• Personal answers to ultimate questions. That is what we seek.

  

  Alexandra Ripley
  • Question
  • Answers
  • Personal

• Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Control
  • Day
  • Sleep

• I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.

  

  Walt Disney
  • First
  • Little
  • Cartoon

• Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.

  

  Donald Byrd
  • Personal
  • Here
  • Productive