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

• You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.

  

  Natalia Ginzburg
  • You
  • Made
  • Materials

• 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

• 'Well,' said Pooh, 'what I like best—' and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Good
  • Stop

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

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Nature

• When I was younger, I used to be a high jumper before I switched to hurdles.

  

  Liu Xiang
  • High

• The scariest thing about 'Roy' was that it was sync sound. So, I had to worry about my diction all the more along with my emotions, acting, and my dialogues. That was very challenging because it pushed me to work on my Hindi, and in a good way.

  Jacqueline Fernandez
  • Good
  • Work
  • Worry

• If you are playing someone living, it is a different type of judgment. However much work you do, it is not a documentary. There will be things you can't get right, and ultimately, you have to take a leap because - you weren't there.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Work
  • Different
  • Judgment

• You reach a certain point in your 30s when you say things in a much safer way.

  

  Sandra Bernhard
  • Way
  • Certain

• There are values of humanity, culture, beauty, community that may require deviations from the cold logic of market theory.

  

  Anthony Lewis
  • May
  • Culture
  • Community

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

  

  Maurice Chevalier