Jeff Raikes Quotes

In order to succeed... you have to put a stake in the ground.

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• I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Play

• I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Time
  • Fashion
  • Like

• Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Going
  • Alien
  • Hospital

• I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Politics
  • Issues
  • Involved

• When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.

  

  Fefe Dobson
  • Life
  • Change
  • Start

• I've worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. I'm past the point where I worry about people liking me.

  

  Pam Dawber
  • People
  • Past
  • Learning

• I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Book

• I don't try to be sexy, but I do want to look as good as I can.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Good
  • Want
  • Sexy

• We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • High
  • Best
  • Need

• I became famous almost before I had a craft.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Famous
  • Almost
  • Craft

• I have no kicks at all The fact is I'm pretty happy about the whole thing...I enjoy this country. I like the parks and the highways and the good schools and everything that this Government does.

  

  Carole Lombard
  • Good
  • Country
  • Happy

• Ah, ah, thy beauty! like a beast it bites,Stings like an adder, like an arrow smites.

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

• My first tic was to shake my head violently. I was in karate class, and I was shaking violently. All of a sudden, I just started to notice that the teacher was looking at me, and all the kids were wondering what I was doing. I suddenly felt really strange.

  

  Dash Mihok
  • Kids
  • Teacher

• I do not write political shows; I should not write political shows.

  

  Kurt Sutter
  • Political

• When I go to audition for voiceovers, I do dress as if I'm going to an on-camera audition because that's my way of showing that I do care and it means something to me.

  

  Kether Donohue

• Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Great
  • Success
  • Door

• This sounds like a brag, but I know how to make good fried rice. I learned in college. There are two secrets - take the rice after you cook it and let it get cold in the fridge. Then cook the egg like you're making a fried egg and just before it's done, dump the rice and veg on it and swirl it around.

  

  Patton Oswalt
  • Good
  • Done
  • College

• But, Eminem... No, I've loved rap for a long time, especially when it got out of its first period and became this gangsta rap, ya know this heavy rap thing? That's when I started to fall in love with it. I loved the lyrics. I loved the beat.

  

  Alan Vega
  • Time
  • Long
  • Fall

• 'We are the same. There is no difference anywhere in the world. People are people. They laugh, cry, feel, and love, and music seems to be the commons denomination that brings us all together. Music cuts through all boundaries and goes right to the soul.'

  

  Willie Nelson
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.

  

  Dean Kamen
  • Work
  • Live
  • Society

• O king! I was but a man like others, asleep upon my couch, when lo, the breezes of the All-Glorious were wafted over me, and taught me the knowledge of all that hath been. This thing is not from me, but from One Who is Almighty and All-Knowing.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • Man
  • Knowledge
  • King

• Everybody eats three times a day; it's only a question of where they choose to eat. The longer-term trends are people eat out more often.

  

  Fred DeLuca
  • People
  • Question

• '...If you could ever get the poor to vote in this country, you'd have socialism. But people want to think rich. That's the genius of the capitalist system: either you're rich, or you want to be, or you think you ought to be.'

  

  John Updike
  • People
  • Country

• In order to succeed... you have to put a stake in the ground.

  

  Jeff Raikes