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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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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Me tweeting sometimes, it's like, I don't even remember what I say. It's just coming off how it's coming off.
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I'd like to do a play in New York.
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I'm not big on reading business books. I get copies of all of them, because people want me to put a comment on the jacket. Every once in a while, I'll get interested and read one all the way through.
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New York City is the greatest city on the planet. It's the capital of the world.
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We can be hindered in our development and our personal growth by political conditions. Outer circumstances can constrain us. Only when we are free to develop our innate abilities can we live as free beings. But we are just as much determined by inner potential and outer opportunities as the Stone Age boy on the Rhine, the lion in Africa, or the apple tree in the garden.
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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.
