Jimmy Graham Quotes

I don't have chips on my shoulders, I have bricks.

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• Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • World
  • Real
  • Progress

• I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • People
  • Know
  • Hand

• I think I'm the only professional horse rider from the movie industry. Strangely, I've seen no men from the industry at equestrian events. Though I've seen some ladies like Diya Mirza and Lara Dutta at the race course. Women, by the way, make superior horse riders.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Men
  • Women
  • Movie

• To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Happiness
  • Child
  • Find

• Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Jungle
  • Border
  • Colombia

• Well, it was one of my most gratifying experiences because I could devote my knowledge and my talent for the good for the City of Washington, and all the Federal projects where the Fine Arts Commission had jurisdiction, and it was a tremendous experience.

  

  Felix de Weldon
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Knowledge

• I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Know
  • Politics
  • Speak

• I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Important
  • Success
  • Past

• Colombians are sick of 'Narcos' stories because Colombia is a country that has changed so much. It's a country that's completely different from the country that we see in 'Narcos.' They reconstructed themselves in 25 years, which is amazing.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • Different
  • Country
  • Amazing

• Reinforcement is being right.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Right
  • Being
  • Reinforcement

• I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • American
  • Culture
  • Surprised

• I think that, if anything, the pageant is great for people who suffer from body issues. It's all about being comfortable with what you're given and what you have and being able to flaunt it without being insecure. It's about empowering women, not making them feel weak or less.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • People
  • Great
  • Women

• The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Up
  • World
  • Men

• I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Fear
  • You
  • Will

• The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning. Then the soul erosion produced by high gambling - a compost of greed and fear and nervous tension - becomes unbearable and the senses awake and revolt from it.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • High
  • Soul
  • Fear

• I think it's very important to feel beautiful. I think it's very political to feel beautiful, especially if you're Queer, because if you're Queer you have to take on the world every single day of your life, so you have to feel beautiful to survive.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• We will cease to be angry once we cease to be so hopeful.

  

  Alain de Botton
  • Angry

• I have a policy of not saying anything negative about anything another magician does.

  

  Doug Henning

• A lot of the problems in the mortgage world, people said, were because our competitors were evil. But a lot of it was a lack of technology - bad processes and systems.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is the wriggle.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Men
  • Power
  • Success

• At my heaviest, I was 5'8" and 175 pounds. I ate well, but in too large quantities, and I rarely made a concerted effort to burn off the extra calories. I'd beat myself up about being overweight, even though I had the tools to be in shape. Then I'd resort to an unhealthy diet to lose the weight that was making me self-conscious.

  

  Daphne Oz
  • Up
  • Effort

• With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.

  

  Lee Krasner
  • Light
  • Communication
  • Solitude

• This is Burma, and it will be quite unlike any land you know about.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Know
  • Land
  • Burma

• I don't have chips on my shoulders, I have bricks.

  

  Jimmy Graham