Jim Brown Quotes

The truth is that politicians are basically tied to trying to get reelected, so they can't really make landmark changes.

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• My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Together
  • Fire
  • Athlete

• Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • War
  • Civil War
  • Universities

• I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Improve
  • Manners
  • Sugar

• It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Clinton
  • Retire

• It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

  

  Ovid
  • Purpose
  • Honest
  • Annoying

• Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Live
  • Blessing
  • Holy

• Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Law
  • Community
  • Policy

• The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.

  

  Hans Berger
  • First
  • Order
  • Waves

• I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.

  

  Lake Bell
  • People
  • Voice
  • Loved

• It's always cool to go to different places and see what's really out there in the world.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • World
  • Different
  • Cool

• I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • Acting
  • Historian
  • Confusing

• I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Failure

• Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman – her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.

  

  Maiara Walsh
  • Career
  • Respect
  • Choices

• Amateurs hope, professionals work.

  

  Garson Kanin
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Professionals

• I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • America
  • History
  • Know

• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Australia

• I came to Hollywood and I loved it. It was a great time, but in my head I was still elsewhere, in Europe. I believed in a certain cinema, which I still do believe in - a certain European cinema - and as a young woman being in America, I thought I was being taken away from that.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Time
  • Great
  • Believe

• A serious mistake in a nightie, A grave disappointment all roundIs all that you'll get from th'Almighty, Is all that you'll get underground.Oh he said: 'If you lay off the crumpetI'll see you alright in the end.Just hang on until the last trumpet.Have faith in me, chum – I'm your friend.'

  

  James Fenton
  • Faith
  • Friend
  • Serious

• Take every day, love every day, enjoy every day, even if you have a crappy day, find the fun things in it.

  

  Charles Trippy
  • Love
  • Enjoy
  • Everyday

• An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Reason
  • Cause
  • Justification

• I know a lot of people that had one cancer that are not alive today. I've had three. So my glass is much more than half full.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • Today
  • Cancer

• All alone - shorn of context, without captions - a photograph is neither true nor false.... For truth, properly considered, is about the relationship between language and the world, not about photographs and the world.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Truth
  • Relationship
  • Language

• The truth is that politicians are basically tied to trying to get reelected, so they can't really make landmark changes.

  

  Jim Brown
  • Trying
  • Truth