Jim Thorpe Quotes

I am no more proud of my career as an athlete than I am of the fact that I am a direct descendant of that noble warrior [Chief Black Hawk].

Jim Thorpe

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• Your agent should be invested in the success of your book past the contract stage. After all, if it sells well, she's going to be getting 15 percent of every dime you make. She can be your best advocate in fighting for your book - not just with editing and the cover, but with marketing and sales as well.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • She
  • Book
  • Success

• With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.

  

  Iain Glen
  • Woman
  • Look
  • Modesty

• I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Me
  • Hurt
  • Thought

• My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Music
  • School
  • Mother

• The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Book
  • Success

• A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Good
  • Age
  • Pretty

• I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Up
  • Period
  • Movies

• It's nice not to be too boring.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Nice
  • Boring
  • Too

• Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.

  

  Taylor Dane
  • Different
  • Character
  • Game

• If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • You
  • Never
  • Location

• We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.

  

  Ja Rule
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • God
  • Education
  • Evil

• Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Relationship

• In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Days
  • Continue
  • Heroic

• Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • World
  • Trying
  • Understanding

• I think that life in Israel is sometimes bigger than the movies.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Life
  • Think
  • Movies

• Christianity is a battle not a dream.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Dream
  • Battle
  • Christianity

• Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Music
  • Songs
  • Playing

• The American system of management, in my opinion, also relies too much on outsiders to help make business decisions., and this is because of the insecurity that American decision makers feel in their jobs, as compared with most top Japanese corporate executives.

  

  Akio Morita
  • Business
  • American
  • Help

• It became evident to me that there was a very serious political element at work. I know that the term impeachment was bandied about. I do not believe, however, that the word was used with the ferocity it was more recently or that it was in the Nixon years.

  

  Fred F. Fielding
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Political

• My philosophy towards life is to enjoy it to the fullest and have fun. I am one of those 'laugh-out-loud' kinds. I am quirky, yet witty.

  

  Bipasha Basu
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Witty

• If you think you're too far from Allah to return, and your 'past' continues to own you, just remember that Malik ibn Dinar (RA) was an alcoholic, and Omar (RA) was on his way to assassinate the Prophet (pbuh) before they became two of the greatest souls to walk the earth!

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Earth

• Initially, I had two thoughts. First, this is a very large conspiracy; and second, our children in Washington. We knew there were a few unidentified planes that may have been headed for the White House or the Capitol Building.

  

  Mercer Reynolds
  • Children
  • Conspiracy
  • Planes

• I am no more proud of my career as an athlete than I am of the fact that I am a direct descendant of that noble warrior [Chief Black Hawk].

  

  Jim Thorpe
  • Black
  • Proud
  • Athlete