Jean Shepherd Quotes

I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you.

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• It's so essential to happiness to speak your truth out loud - because this sharing of your core pain is what creates a necessary healing shift - from negative beliefs about the world - to positive beliefs - and frees you up to be able to fully view life with meaning, purpose and connection with others.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Great
  • Women
  • Mother

• I'm Australian! How much more alpha can you get?

  

  Sam Worthington
  • You
  • More
  • Alpha

• There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Human
  • Difficult
  • Easy

• The best thing about golf is ultimately what it teaches you about yourself. And the worst thing is how freakin' nervous it can make you feel.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Best
  • Yourself
  • Golf

• When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Film
  • Look
  • Finish

• As a conservative, I maintain a healthy skepticism of the theory of man-made global warming. I also believe that more people enjoying the fruits of modernity and economic development is a good thing - as long as those people arrived legally and obey the law.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Victory
  • March
  • Jerusalem

• There's many things that I am. And all of those things come together at some point. If somebody wants to limit me, you know and they'll say, 'Well, this is Walter Mosley, the mystery writer.' I don't like that. Because I do many things.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Writer
  • Mystery
  • Point

• Without a tutor to help me in the study of Marxism-Leninism, I was no more than a theorist and, of course, had total confidence in the Soviet Union.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Help
  • Me
  • Study

• My mom was a housewife and a sponge, who would absorb everything and make it all look like a fairytale when he entered the house. For instance, when he came home, I would always be seen studying with my books open. She always made sure that Dad went back to the shoot happily.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Home
  • She
  • House

• Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • World
  • Parents
  • Influence

• Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of craftsmanship, I can't help but admire the liar.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Done
  • Help
  • Lies

• I'd love to continue my career in Hollywood - I'd love to do another action film, or a romantic comedy, or horror. I love horror films.

  

  Rain
  • Career
  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• All I say cancels out, I’ll have said nothing.

  

  Samuel Beckett

• As he saw it, there was only one choice - to be strong and upright, or to commit suicide.

  

  Yukio Mishima
  • Strong
  • Suicide

• I think that everything he did, feeding the poor, giving money to friends in need, it was all a way of redeeming himself. And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Money

• How to prevail over that which you refuse to acknowledge the existence of.

  

  Cormac McCarthy

• It is difficult to age because society won't let you. People expect you to look how you did at the height of your fame.

  

  Koo Stark
  • People
  • Age
  • Society

• You should watch what you say to people.

  

  Bob Benson
  • People
  • Watch

• You try to be moody when you're young and it had a good ring to it.

  

  Jim Capaldi
  • Good

• I can go into any working circumstance and, simply, I'm prepared to deal with the work. It was a long, hard lesson I learned.

  

  George Chakiris
  • Work
  • Lesson
  • Circumstance

• Brushing up on your short game at the practice area is fine and good, but taking it with you to the golf course - when your score is really on the line - is another story.

  

  Ernie Els
  • Game
  • Story
  • Golf

• I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you.

  

  Jean Shepherd