Jim Barksdale Quotes

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• I grew up in a very large, poor family.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Up
  • Family
  • Poor

• I'm not Cinderella.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Cinderella

• I think I am very hands-on mother. I am very strict, and my daughter keeps telling me, 'You are too hard on me,' and I keep telling her, 'I have to be hard because if I am not hard, you will not learn the lessons that I want you to learn.' I think it is really important to be that way.

  

  Kajol
  • Important
  • Mother
  • Way

• Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Time
  • Road
  • Path

• No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Time
  • God
  • Man

• I smoke, isn't that terrible?

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Terrible
  • Smoke

• I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.

  

  Warren Giles
  • School
  • Friends
  • Mother

• I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • People
  • Home
  • Experience

• I'm easily entertained.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Easily
  • Entertained

• Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Architecture
  • Building

• Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Ethics
  • Quiet
  • Stone

• The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Complexity
  • Explode

• We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'

  

  Dan Brown
  • Up
  • Time
  • Book

• You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • You
  • Body
  • Force

• When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Experience
  • Energy
  • Relationship

• Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • World
  • Space

• Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.

  

  Dale Evans
  • Together
  • Song
  • Relationship

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

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Going
  • Alien
  • Hospital

• I get so antsy. When you're working, you're like, 'Oh my God, I'm so tired.' And then a hiatus starts, and you're off for three days, and you don't know what to do with yourself. You're never gonna have another job in your life, and you suck at acting. Your world comes tumbling down pretty quickly.

  

  Chris Zylka
  • Life
  • World
  • God

• The world is full of people who would like nothing better than to spend six hours on a golf course. I would rather be chopping shallots.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • World
  • Better

• We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • Long
  • Past

• Man-every man-is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• I want to win this because there is pride and dignity in what we do. Dressing up for a living does not make us less of a man.

  

  BeBe Zahara Benet
  • Pride
  • Win
  • Dressing Up

• I think we're proving ourselves as we go along. The past several months our strategy has been evolutionary - making maximum advantage of our client browser, as well as our enterprise software for people who want to build Web sites.

  

  Jim Barksdale
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