Jeff Rich Quotes

You don't go to war with the President you want, you go to war with the President you have.

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• I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Community
  • Build
  • Hats

• Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Eye
  • Spring
  • Obstacles

• We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Greed
  • Generosity
  • Goodness

• The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Up
  • American
  • Game

• It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.

  

  Cameron Bright
  • Time
  • Work
  • School

• The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.

  

  Tara Lipinski
  • Morning
  • Coffee
  • Ice

• I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Heart
  • Day
  • Spiritual

• Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • Fun
  • Films
  • Fact

• When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Work
  • Opinion
  • Start

• Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Heart
  • Friends
  • Sun

• We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.

  

  Ted Chiang
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Technology

• I think my role, I want to have a presence both behind the scenes and in front of the camera. So I can't say on one particular thing, so I'll just name them all. I'll be the jack of all trades and hopefully decent at one of them.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Think
  • Want
  • Name

• One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.

  

  J. Cole
  • Day
  • Listening
  • Red

• In Chicago, they die for their teams.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Die
  • Chicago
  • Teams

• As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Look

• I don't have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Thought
  • Will
  • Anybody

• There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • May
  • Idea
  • Original

• I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Work
  • You
  • Sleep

• Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature

  

  Larry Wall

• Once there was a little bunny who wanted to run away. So he said to his mother, "I am running away". "If you run away", said his mother, "I will run after you. For you are my little bunny".

  

  Margaret Wise Brown
  • Mother
  • Running
  • Away

• The difference between mind and brain is that brain deals only with memorized, subjective, special-case experiences and objective experiments, while mind extracts and employs the

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Mind
  • Brain
  • Differences

• One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.

  

  Abraham Pais
  • War
  • Know
  • Rules

• We all live with it. That unbearable terror is what makes us such singular creatures. We hide from it, we succumb to it, mostly we defy it! We build fragile little structures to keep it out. We love, we raise families, we work, we make friends. We write poems...

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • Work
  • Live
  • Friends

• You don't go to war with the President you want, you go to war with the President you have.

  

  Jeff Rich The Climax Blues Band
  • War