James Cash Penney Quotes

The thought in my mind was that I must be a good merchant. If I were a good merchant, the rest would probably take care of itself.

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• I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Power
  • Respect
  • Care

• I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Time
  • May
  • Training

• Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Poetry
  • Years
  • Living

• I'm constantly maxing out my Gmail account, and that is hard to do.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Hard
  • Out
  • Account

• I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • School
  • Know
  • Learn

• When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Work
  • Love
  • Young

• Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • People
  • Bad
  • Day

• There's so much bullying with young people and them feeling like they can't come out, and they don't know what to do. And it's something that you have to work through. And, you know, for me, it was - I came out, and then I went back in for a minute. And then I came out, and I was like, 'You know what? This is who I am.'

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • People
  • Work
  • Feeling

• I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Guy

• Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Song
  • Happiness
  • Very

• There are a lot of teams that don't want to play, that only want to defend against Barcelona, and that makes it difficult. We're always looking for the open space. A lot of times we'll face six defenders and four midfielders.

  

  Xavi
  • Space
  • Play
  • Looking

• I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Hate
  • Movies
  • Down

• Beijing was a huge slap in the face, and it forced me to look at myself. I have to realise that this is my life.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Life
  • Myself
  • My Life

• If I find cool, open-minded people, want to do unique one-of-a-kind kind of project, I'll do it as long as I can.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Long
  • Cool

• There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.

  

  Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons
  • Always
  • Audience
  • Try

• I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. People's habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • People
  • Important
  • Questions

• When I got my band in 1983, I knew what I had to do. If I'm going to have a big band, they're going to have to sound equally as good as what I'm used to hearing.

  

  Illinois Jacquet
  • Good
  • Band
  • Sound

• The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • People
  • Best
  • Road

• People look at you and see that you've made it, but sometimes they forget that it took you years of being a human being.

  

  Cristina Saralegui
  • People

• Just as humans have a prior right to existence over dogs by virtue of being more highly evolved and having a superior consciousness, so women have a prior right to existence over men. The elimination of any male is, therefore, a righteous and good act, an act highly beneficial to women as well as an act of mercy.

  

  Valerie Solanas
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• So much of what I do has been based off of my heroes and guys I've watched come up.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Up
  • Been
  • Come

• I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Nice
  • Funeral

• I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Good
  • Religious

• The thought in my mind was that I must be a good merchant. If I were a good merchant, the rest would probably take care of itself.

  

  James Cash Penney
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Rest