Doyle Brunson Quotes

Try to decide how good your hand is at a given moment. Nothing else matters. Nothing.

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• The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Life
  • Korea
  • North Korea

• Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.

  

  Daniel Burnham
  • Remember
  • Things
  • Going

• Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Time
  • Stop
  • Same

• Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Thanks
  • Number
  • Honey

• Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Politics
  • Generation

• I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Period

• Twenty-six years ago, I became the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate in her own right. I was the first, but I made sure I wasn't the only.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Woman
  • First
  • Own

• As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Ability
  • More
  • Will

• When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

  

  Gary Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • Movie

• I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a bleeding ulcer.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Career
  • Research
  • Going

• In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Style

• There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• The fans treated me royally.

  

  Hank Sauer
  • Me
  • Fans
  • Treated

• I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Way
  • Inside

• It's very easy to run a good 200 m. after an appalling shot put.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Good
  • Easy
  • Run

• The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Up
  • Explain
  • Jews

• When you do something that people watch and enjoy as children, that's great because it stays with you, throughout your life. The things you loved as a child stay with you, and so do the people who were in those things.

  

  Catherine O'Hara
  • People
  • Children
  • Enjoy

• With Stacy, it was interesting because you know he was within all this chaos, all these different lives that were so broken and so much anger and so much frustration and their skating came out of that, their different styles came out of that.

  

  John Robinson
  • Different
  • Interesting
  • Broken

• Accident is as much a part of fiction as anything else, symbolic of the grace that, along with will, conspires to put words on the page.

  

  Mark Helprin
  • Words

• People are not born evil, although we all have evil within us.

  

  Leila Slimani
  • People
  • Evil

• I simply loved all my life; loved is too strong a word, but I had a tremendous sentiment, partly conditioned, of course, by the reality of where I grew up, for the spirit of individualism, for the idea of your being on your own in a big way.

  

  Joseph Brodsky
  • Life
  • Up
  • Reality

• Try to decide how good your hand is at a given moment. Nothing else matters. Nothing.

  

  Doyle Brunson
  • Good
  • Hand
  • Moment