Jeff Duncan Quotes

In Vietnam, we took a hill and defeated the enemy; then we retreated and let the enemy take over.

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• It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Friends

• I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Up
  • Game
  • Struggle

• Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Lost
  • Never
  • Idea

• It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Clinton
  • Retire

• Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • World
  • Go
  • Royalty

• I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Because
  • Keep
  • Annoying

• I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Way
  • Relationship
  • Too Much

• Those who go along get along.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Get
  • Go
  • Along

• I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences, and historians will tell different stories corresponding to different things.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Different
  • True

• The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.

  

  Malcolm X
  • American
  • Feeling
  • Him

• We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Better
  • Succeed
  • Concert

• Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Music
  • Country
  • Art

• The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Light
  • Water
  • Democracy

• In the struggle against sexual discrimination on Wall Street, Pamela K. Martens is a latter-day Rosa Parks - a woman who, metaphorically speaking, refused to sit in the back of the bus.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Woman
  • Struggle
  • Wall

• My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • People
  • Imagination
  • Better

• I'm attracted to the rag & bone aesthetic - classic and effortless with an edge.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Aesthetic
  • Classic
  • Edge

• Those who put their lives on the line overseas are undoubtedly American heroes, but it's time for us to remember that those who serve in civilian life also embody the American spirit and are worthy of our praise as well.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Time
  • Remember

• When I was a Laker Girl, I only danced for three months. We did not get paid that much money, and I was working two jobs at the time. I thought that it would be a little more fun, but it was quite stressful. It's all about your weight, your hair, having the right hair extensions, what to wear, the kind of shoes you wore.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Time
  • Money
  • Fun

• We must develop a federal program of public works, retraining, and jobs for all - so that none, white or black, will have cause to feel threatened . . . There is nothing except shortsightedness to prevent us from guaranteeing an annual minimum and livable income for every American family.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Develop
  • American Family
  • Federal Program

• My heart returns to me what I turn away. I am my own master but not always master of myself.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • Heart

• Saving our planet requires you to be ambitious in what you aim, and, equally, in how hard you work to reach your goal.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work

• Automobiles are fun and exciting. We need them. They are a part of our lives.

  

  Alan Mulally
  • Fun

• We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness 'to act alone,' its willingness to be everybody's enemy.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Hope
  • Alone
  • Enemy

• In Vietnam, we took a hill and defeated the enemy; then we retreated and let the enemy take over.

  

  Jeff Duncan
  • Enemy