Jane Bryant Quinn Quotes

The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.

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• I think that when somebody loses a bet, they tend to sometimes confuse their motives in rooting and enjoying the game because if you lose your bet, even though the team you're rooting for wins, you have a potentially conflicted outcome.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Game
  • Team
  • Sometimes

• I told my parents that I will marry any girl they choose for me. They also told me that they are open to considering any girl I choose. We were very open about it throughout.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Parents
  • Girl
  • Choose

• I remember I got an ALMA award for an actor being on three shows simultaneously.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • Remember
  • Three
  • Award

• Commercialism isn't challenging creatively; it's only challenging in a stamina way.

  

  Feist
  • Way
  • Only
  • Stamina

• When the government runs out of lenders, it can do something that households are forbidden to do: print money.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Money
  • Government
  • Something

• World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?

  

  L.A. Reid
  • World
  • Music
  • Culture

• When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Men
  • Live

• I always try to be very human in my performances and hang out with my fans. It is cool to be a celebrity, but at the end of the day I want to empower my audience and say, 'Hey, I am just like you.'

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Day
  • Cool
  • End

• I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Life
  • Problem
  • My Life

• My temperament is not the adventuresome sort that enjoys starting new projects every six months. I love ensemble, nine-to-five stability. There's a family dynamic in making a television show that you don't get on a movie, where you're a hired gun for a few months.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Family
  • Movie
  • Projects

• I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Small
  • Talk
  • Hide

• Teamwork requires some sacrifice up front; people who work as a team have to put the collective needs of the group ahead of their individual interests.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I think it's fairly clear that playing hockey isn't the same as playing football.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Football
  • Hockey
  • Clear

• We aren't, as human beings, very good at acting in our best interest.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Good
  • Best
  • Acting

• I don't mind doing interviews. I don't mind answering thoughtful questions. But I'm not thrilled about answering questions like, 'If you were being mugged, and you had a lightsaber in one pocket and a whip in the other, which would you use?'

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Mind
  • Questions
  • Thoughtful

• 'I have no fear of war,' said Arthur Stuart. 'That’s when kings get to show their mettle.''You’re thinking of chess,' said Margaret. 'In war, everyone has their chance to bleed.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Thinking
  • War
  • Fear

• Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles

• Will you still need me, will you still feed me,when I'm sixty-four?

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles

• You have to take a lot of pride in it. It's part of the game plan. If it's called, you want to make it work. Just because it's a gadget and it doesn't work, a lot of people will (say), 'Well, we don't normally do that.' But we feel like when we call those type plays, we want to make them work.

  

  Arnaz Battle
  • Work
  • Game
  • Pride

• My mother has always encouraged me to do what I love. When I started being interested in fashion, she was very supportive, bringing me to see exhibits and buying me books. And when I started my company, she was right there to help me!

  

  Joseph Altuzarra
  • She
  • Help
  • Mother

• There was a time when I used to go to Mexico every year. But then Mexico changed a lot - between 1995 and 2005, Mexico changed a lot.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Years
  • Changed
  • Used

• There is no elegy for those who have been dispossessed of their anger--what remains is a future carved out of banality instead of blood.

  

  Brando Skyhorse
  • Blood
  • Anger
  • Dispossessed

• It can be lost, and it will be, if the time ever comes when these documents are regarded not as the supreme expression of our profound belief, but merely as curiosities in glass cases.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Belief
  • Documents
  • Glass cases

• The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.

  

  Jane Bryant Quinn