Jimmy Graham Quotes
It can get pretty hectic in New Orleans whenever I go shopping. So I'll fly to Houston, buy my groceries, and then come back - nobody cares there because I'm not J.J. Watt.
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When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
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As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
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My mom is incredibly stylish, and she gets it from my grandmother. I feel like I can't live up to how chic they are as women. They are great role models for aging gracefully, and that's a thing that is very key that I try to always emulate.
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
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We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.
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I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
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What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
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I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
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At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.
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We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
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You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'
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I really don't like confrontations. One of the reasons I'm retiring is that I'm tired of hurting people's feelings.
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Abu Musab al-Suri is someone I got to know pretty well because he's a Syrian. Very bright guy, lived in London. He actually was the person who took myself and correspondent Peter Arnett and the cameraman, Peter Juvenal, to interview bin Laden for his first TV interview.
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I've spent my whole life in airports. I don't come home but every two and a half months, which is pretty crazy.
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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
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My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.
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It can get pretty hectic in New Orleans whenever I go shopping. So I'll fly to Houston, buy my groceries, and then come back - nobody cares there because I'm not J.J. Watt.
