Jimmy Doolittle Quotes
I am not a very timid type. It's very important to some people, but not to me. I have a simple philosophy: worry about those things you can fix. It you can't fix it, don't worry about it; accept it and do the best you can.
Quotes to Explore
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
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As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.
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With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'.
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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.
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Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.
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I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
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The E.U.'s 500 million citizens enjoy the right to live and work in any of the Union's 27 member states.
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There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
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I am not a very timid type. It's very important to some people, but not to me. I have a simple philosophy: worry about those things you can fix. It you can't fix it, don't worry about it; accept it and do the best you can.
