Maurice Chevalier Quotes

Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.

Maurice Chevalier

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• Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Career
  • Football
  • inspirational

• I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.

  

  Eden Ahbez
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Wind

• Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

  

  Hans Selye
  • Stress
  • U.S.
  • Reaction

• Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• I became conflicted in my late teens.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Late
  • Became
  • Late Teens

• I'm just happy that people have recognised me as leading man material.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • People
  • Happy
  • Man

• Twitter helps me connect to the people who help make my music, or the cycle of an album, complete. Without them experiencing the music, it doesn't really exist, so it doesn't make sense to not involve them.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • People
  • Music
  • Help

• Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• We never really know what's around the corner when we're filming - what turn a story will take, what a character will do or say to surprise us, how the events in the world will impact our story.

  

  Barbara Kopple
  • World
  • Character
  • Impact

• We must pass a national energy policy to continue our successes in the War on Terrorism.

  

  Zack Wamp
  • War
  • Energy
  • Terrorism

• I auditioned for 'Game of Thrones' seven times! Loads of times.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Game
  • Times
  • Seven

• Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Kind
  • Alien
  • Test

• I'm 5'11, so when I wear heels, it's definitely a really good view that I have. I'm, like, 6'2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Good
  • View
  • Cowboy

• I've personally demanded that tyrants let their people go. I've tried to feed the hungry, clothe the poor, protect the elderly and infirm, and defend the needy from the aggressively greedy. I've led a blessed life. What a kick for a kid from the projects.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Life
  • Blessed

• Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Political
  • Turn
  • Employees

• There is a little of everything, apparently, in nature, and freaks are common.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Nature

• Perched up high on a rooftop,like a bird I'm having evil thoughts,A black hood covers my faceas death flows through my mind at its own pace.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Up
  • Mind
  • High

• I find that the whiter my hair becomes the more ready people are to believe what I say.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • People
  • Believe
  • Hair

• 'Darling,' she drawled, 'won’t that be rather tiresome? If any misfortunes happen to my friends I always drop them at once! It sounds heartless, but it saves such a lot of trouble later!'

  

  Agatha Christie
  • She
  • Friends
  • Heartless

• Most seem to think that while a person may not be responsible for the opportunities he gets in life, each is entirely responsible for what he makes of these opportunities.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Life
  • May
  • Think

• 'Younger' is about reinvention and how age is very much a state of mind. I think the show is ultimately about reinvention. I do think it explores, ultimately, the differences between generations, through the prism of reinvention. That reinvention is possible.

  

  Darren Star
  • Mind
  • Age

• During my first round of law school applications, I didn't even apply to Yale, Harvard, or Stanford - the mystical 'top three' schools. I didn't think I had a chance at those places. More important, I didn't think it mattered; all lawyers get good jobs, I assumed.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Good
  • Important
  • School

• Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.

  

  Maurice Chevalier