Dr. John (Malcolm John Rebennack) Quotes

Stress is the inability to adapt to a changing environment.

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• If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Life
  • God
  • Dead

• I'm a good Catholic boy.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Good
  • Boy
  • Catholic

• I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Kind
  • Thought
  • Competition

• Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Knowledge
  • Risk
  • Doing

• I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Think
  • See
  • Silly

• I've been on the campaign trail so long, some of my wine has turned to vinegar.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Long
  • Wine
  • Trail

• I know that in my family there are histories of violence that are internal family things and that are oftentimes dealt with internally. By internally, I mean inside the family group, but also partly inside ourselves. You know, self-hatred and hostility and rage and this cycle that won't break.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Family
  • Know
  • Violence

• I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Important
  • Guy
  • Chess

• Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Business
  • Food
  • Short

• Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Last
  • Patriotism
  • Refuge

• Well, love motivates me in everything I do.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Love
  • Me
  • Motivates

• Out-marriage is an issue religious groups have been wrestling with for some time. Of course men and women fall in love. Of course it's not always convenient to their respective cultural and spiritual norms.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Marriage
  • Religious
  • Spiritual

• I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Want
  • Doing
  • Teach

• My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.

  

  Nancy Garden
  • People
  • Writing
  • Happy

• I came to L.A. with confidence in my craft, and I was very offended when I didn't get a part. It took me awhile to understand that it is not always about your acting.

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Me
  • Confidence
  • Understand

• After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • Action
  • September
  • Iran

• I said to myself I've got to go up there and do it because the New York Mets keep winning every day. The game was on the line and I wanted to go out there and come through for my team. That win tonight means a lot for us.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Up
  • Game
  • Team

• To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Music
  • Children
  • Happy

• You are a black goddess when you come out the salon.

  

  Jenifer Lewis
  • Black
  • Goddess

• Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair.

  

  Marilynne Robinson
  • Writing
  • Education
  • Serious

• If there is nothing new under the sun, at least the sun itself is always new, always re-creating itself out of its own inexhaustible fire.

  

  Michael Sims
  • Fire
  • Nothing
  • Creating

• I want to stress that rationality is not a property of the individual alone, although it is usually presented that way. Rather, it gathers not only its force but also its very meaning from the social context in which it is embedded.

  

  Kenneth Arrow
  • Alone
  • Stress

• A fitting external security environment could also play an important role in promoting social consensus and institutionalization towards democratization.

  

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan
  • Environment
  • Security
  • Democratization

• Stress is the inability to adapt to a changing environment.

  

  Dr. John
  • Environment
  • Stress
  • Adapt