Bret Harte Quotes

Don't be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.

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• It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.

  

  Mae West
  • Look
  • Say
  • How

• Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Done
  • Nothing
  • Over

• I always played to win.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Always
  • Win
  • Played

• I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Twitter

• Action is the foundational key to all success.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Success
  • Action
  • Key

• I think America has a brilliant future.

  

  Harold Evans
  • America
  • Future
  • Think

• During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Family
  • Political
  • Me

• Usually in TV... A TV director could be anything from a main grip to just a glorified cameraman, and sometimes a director can be the person who is hired last. It's very much a producer's medium.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Sometimes
  • Person
  • Director

• I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Work
  • Way
  • Feel

• You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Life
  • Police

• I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Good
  • Thought

• The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • World
  • Live
  • Country

• I don't think God cares a whole lot about the outcome. He cares about the people involved, but I don't think he's a big football fan.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • God
  • Football

• Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • Remember
  • American
  • Right

• I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society, but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Character
  • Society
  • Political

• Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Power
  • Culture
  • Goal

• I've never had a job. I've never needed to.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Job
  • Never
  • Needed

• When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Done
  • Bad
  • Night

• Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Art
  • Bad

• Games get a bad press compared with, say, opera - even though they're obviously better, because no opera has ever compelled an audience member to collect a giant mushroom and jump across some clouds.

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • Bad
  • Jump
  • Clouds

• No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God's hand is on the rein. They all go bad when they set up on their own and make themselves into false gods.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • God
  • Bad

• I started looking at fashion magazines, specifically 'British Vogue.' I was reading a lot about Cecil Beaton. Then I thought maybe I should start collecting.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Reading
  • Fashion
  • Thought

• Don't be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.

  

  Bret Harte
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