Brian Boitano Quotes

Yeah, I am a little bit, and I think it is a natural progression of the sport, of going upwards in technical ability and everything like that.

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• When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Men
  • Women
  • Problem

• I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Life
  • Kind
  • See

• All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.

  

  Maimonides
  • Great
  • Men
  • Wisdom

• Arianna Huffington has exercised her renowned wisdom to give journalism another boost along the ever busier Internet. Her blog site promises to be an interesting challenge for those of us lucky enough to be invited to participate with our occasional contributions.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Interesting
  • Wisdom
  • Challenge

• The difference between the Bush I war against Iraq and the Bush II war against Iraq is that in the first one, we appealed to the sentiments and interests of the different groupings in the region and had them with us. In the second one, we did it on our own, on the basis of false premises, with extremely brutality and lack of political skill.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Different
  • War
  • Political

• I think you have to be careful. You have to know exactly what is going to resonate with voters. And you can't get ahead of that. You have to be very careful with your approach.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Think
  • You
  • Know

• Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Humble
  • Most
  • Jealousy

• I left Iran back in 1985. I lived in Turkey for a while, then I went to Germany. I joined a theater company there, and we toured the country.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Country
  • Company
  • Turkey

• I've always just focused on the work, and I've just tried to be honest with the work. If the work speaks to people, fantastic.

  

  Garth Davis
  • People
  • Work
  • Always

• Starting on February 1, 2010, and running through until May 30, I will be Toronto Public Library's Writer in Residence, working out of the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculation at the Lillian H. Smith branch at College and Spadina.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • May
  • Science
  • Running

• So though there are many things I would have done differently, I submit to God's sovereignty and His purpose in my life and I thank Him that He brought me the way He brought me and gave me what He gave me when He thought I could handle it.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Life
  • God
  • Done

• Well, the thought that everybody might have a personal computer at their desk or their home was certainly not on the mainstream of anybody's activity at that time.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Time
  • Home
  • Thought

• I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • People
  • Faults
  • Other

• I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Never
  • Personality
  • Famous

• Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?

  

  Beah Richards
  • People
  • Help
  • Education

• I don't smoke marijuana anymore. I don't drink. Marijuana is a handicap. So is alcohol. Alcohol is a terrible handicap. But in spite of being a handicap, it shouldn't be criminal.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Drink
  • Alcohol
  • Smoke

• I try personally not to be nostalgic.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Try
  • Personally
  • Nostalgic

• In the years that some of my colleagues have served - 20, 30 years - they’ve never seen it like this.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords

• We need... a much more competent and honest government. Economic reform and political reform must go hand in hand. Without the one there cannot be the other.

  

  Jeffrey Sachs
  • Political
  • Hand

• I think we need to find out why the citizens of the world's wealthiest, most envied, most powerful country are so cynical, so distressed, so angry, so ticked of about so many things.

  

  William Bennett
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Powerful

• You know, an audition usually is you come in and read the scene and if you're lucky, you get to read it twice.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Read
  • Scene
  • Audition

• Pope Francis said that atheists are still eligible to go to heaven. To return the favor, atheists said Popes are still eligible to go into a void of nothingness.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Heaven
  • Atheists
  • Pope Francis

• Yeah, I am a little bit, and I think it is a natural progression of the sport, of going upwards in technical ability and everything like that.

  

  Brian Boitano