Jimmy Greaves Quotes

We are really the victims of our own problems.

Jimmy Greaves

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• It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • World
  • Child
  • Touring

• My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Good
  • Job
  • Think

• People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • People
  • Doing
  • Building

• In San Francisco, I found Warren Levinson, who had set up a program to study Rous Sarcoma Virus, an archetype for what we now call retroviruses. At the time, the replication of retroviruses was one of the great puzzles of animal virology. Levinson, Levintow and I joined forces in the hope of solving that puzzle.

  

  J. Michael Bishop
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• What I wear is constantly evolving. I am really big on comfortable clothes. I love soft, loose-fitting clothing that has some edge or something new/fresh to it.

  

  Hannah Marks
  • Love
  • Clothes
  • Comfortable

• I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Bad

• I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.

  

  Tate Taylor
  • Good
  • Home
  • Taken

• China may censor YouTube. China may censor Twitter. They won't be able to censor Bitcoin. There's no central authority. There's no one you can go to and say, 'We're going to turn Bitcoin off.'

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • May
  • China
  • Bitcoin

• When Barack Obama was elected, it immediately brought out all the differences in society.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Society
  • Differences
  • Out

• My husband is a brilliant cook - enthusiastic and good - but he has not mastered the clearing up as you go along.

  

  Samantha Cameron
  • Up
  • Good
  • Husband

• When you're doing a Broadway show, you have no free time.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Time
  • Free
  • Doing

• It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • School
  • High
  • Problems

• This modern mania for interfering in other's lives, usually under the guise of health and safety concerns, is highly irritating and counterproductive. Down with the nanny state.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Health
  • Safety
  • Down

• We should just go back to, like, episode 30 and re-break from there and just make it a spaceship. That would be the unexpected reboot of 'Lost.'

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Lost
  • Like
  • Unexpected

• For a gymnast to be successful, she needs to strike a balance of everything within herself. She needs to be graceful, flexible, perform all elements, turns, maintain co-ordination - she has to have all of that. If, for example, she only has co-ordination and nothing else, she will not succeed.

  

  Yana Kudryavtseva
  • She
  • Balance
  • Successful

• All I wantIs one breakWhich is notMy neck.

  

  J. P. Donleavy

• Let the black flower blossom as it may!

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • May
  • Black
  • Flower

• Failure has been correctly identified as the line of least persistence.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Failure
  • Persistence

• You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Believe
  • Choose
  • Pray

• The only time I ever really got into rap was back in the early '90s, and bands like A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Gang Starr. Musically, they were really interesting. But when hip-hop acts start sampling Sting or Phil Collins, then I just don't get it at all.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito
  • Time
  • Soul
  • Interesting

• Art should not be bound by barriers or language. The Hindi film industry is a testament to that. We speak only Hindi, but we premiere in Germany and Japan. Our films do phenomenally well there. We transcend the barriers of language and culture. We welcome you in. I think that's what art should be, and I hope America reaches that place.

  

  Priyanka Chopra
  • Art
  • America
  • Hope

• 2011 was a year in which events rarely turned out as predicted, and when much of the world seemed shrouded in turmoil and uncertainty. It was difficult for government analysts back in Washington to know just where they were on the map, let alone where they were heading.

  

  David Ignatius
  • World
  • Alone

• I had to find stories no one else was writing, so I got away from the quarterback and the coach. I'm still looking for stories no one else has written.

  

  John Branch
  • Writing

• We are really the victims of our own problems.

  

  Jimmy Greaves