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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If I'm teaching girls that do love to make cookies and do love fashion - that they can use math as a part of that - you think that's me saying, come on girls you belong in the kitchen, you belong shopping? Or, do you think it's me showing them how math is part of all their life, even the part they thought it had nothing to do with?
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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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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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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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The issue of immigration is one of the most complex and politically difficult issues because there is so much passion on all sides.
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The Whitney is a museum that has a great rapport with younger artists and the community.
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But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.
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I would not go so far as to say that we are completely changing our outlook.
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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.
