Jim Thorpe Quotes

I give 'em the hip, then I take it away.

Jim Thorpe

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• I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• With Tiger Woods, you know everyone is watching. But I think interest in women's golf is getting better too.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Women
  • Golf
  • Tiger

• A revolution is to bring on change and we're spiritual people trying to bring on spiritual change. It might sound like I'm a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. Technology has evolved. What hasn't evolved is mankind's spirituality; everything is from 3,000 years ago.

  

  Damian Marley
  • People
  • Trying
  • Change

• We like to invest in market leaders.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Like
  • Market
  • Invest

• There are libertarian conservatives, fiscal conservatives, and social conservatives. I feel conservative in terms of limited government, individual responsibility, self-sufficiency - that sort of thing.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Government
  • Responsibility

• I'm thinking, this is Robert Redford. You know, he's won an Academy Award, he's talking to me about directing a movie he's in. So you just think that it's Hollywood stuff or whatever.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Me

• We lived in Manhattan, which was unbearable sometimes because it was so noisy. There were sirens blaring, construction sites going, people shouting and swearing at each other.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • People
  • Lived
  • Construction

• You campaigned against rich people and you got enough envy whipped up in the country and you're gonna get 'em. You're gonna stick it to those rich people. But guess what? You may not get anymore revenue. You may not get anymore economic growth. But you can say, 'I stuck it to the rich people.'

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• You're asked, 'Do you know kung-fu?' Yeah. That's what we do. We wake up, we brush our teeth, we do kung-fu!

  

  Maggie Q
  • Up
  • Know
  • Wake Up

• You must have heard about the beautiful Sufi legend of Majnu and Laila. It is not an ordinary love story. The word majnu means mad, mad for God. And laila is the symbol of God. Sufis think of God as the beloved; laila means the beloved. Everybody is a Majnu, and God is the beloved. And one has to open one’s heart, the eye of the heart.

  

  Rajneesh
  • God
  • Heart
  • Beautiful

• The world's most deadly disease is 'hardening of the attitudes.'

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • World

• After seven years of marriage,He wanted out.Now after seven months of freedom,It's clear that there's no doubt.She's gonna make it,And he never will.He's at the foot of the mountain,And she's over that hill.He's sinkin' at sea,And her sails are filled.She's gonna make it,And he never will.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • She
  • Freedom
  • Marriage

• And silence sounds no worse than cheersAfter earth has stopped the ears.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Earth
  • Silence

• The star of that year's conference was undoubtedly the Swedish conservative leader—since Prime Minister—who delivered a speech of such startling Thatcherite soundness that in applauding I felt as if I was giving myself a standing ovation.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Giving
  • Star

• Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Time
  • True
  • Past

• Sometimes, early in their careers, chefs make the mistake of adding one too many things to a plate to get attention. If a chef is just coming up with wiz-bang gimmicks on their plate, that has nothing to do with bringing real pleasure to people.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• PC Music is a really post-modern attempt at pop.

  

  Diplo
  • Music

• We're the only species that can look into the future and know that we're going to die one day, and it causes all sorts of cognitive stress on your system.

  

  Jason Silva
  • Future
  • Die
  • Stress

• I love producing! It's so much fun to start with a blank canvas and create the picture you want to create and see it all come together.

  

  Martina McBride
  • Together
  • Fun
  • Picture

• Every film may not be appropriate for a theatrical release, and the theatrical business is not a very good business for anybody except the distributor.

  

  Alex Gibney
  • Good
  • May
  • Business

• There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable, as it is seen sometimes in friars. Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Love
  • Charitable
  • Man's Nature

• With 'Mask,' 'Smooth Talk' and 'Blue Velvet,' I loved the specific experiences so much. Each one was a specific filmmaker with a specific vision.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Vision
  • Blue
  • Mask

• If you wanna maintain 20 percent of the world's income with 4 percent of the world's people, you gotta first of all have more shared prosperity and shared growth.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • People
  • Growth
  • Prosperity

• I give 'em the hip, then I take it away.

  

  Jim Thorpe