Jimmy Dean Quotes
I think the kids in school that laughed at the clothes that we wore and the house that we lived in, and then my mother had to cut hair... I think that was a good motivator. Every time they laughed at me, they just built a fire, and there was only one way to put it out - to try and show 'em I was as good as they were.
Quotes to Explore
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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At my core, I know that the American Dream is about the opportunity to work hard to make your future.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.
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Part of what made 'The Bling Ring' such a fun, freeing experience was that we got to wear these really over-the-top clothes we'd never pick in real life - like for the nightclub scenes, we'd have on these really short, really tight dresses. But you know what - I actually learned how to walk in heels on that set!
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.
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I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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I want to serve the people.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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Bearing an eternal longing for Jewishness, I threw myself in all directions and left to work for another people. I am not one of those lucky ones raised in their own environment, whose work is normal.
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If Iraq had succeeded in spray-drying anthrax spores to extend their life and lethality, that would have been among the most important secrets of its wide-ranging weapons program.
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Santa Barbara people are conservative-not like in L.A., where everybody wears rhinestones on their glasses to show that they own an airplane factory.
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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
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To me 'The Big Easy' is shorthand for owning big stocks that are easy for wary investors to buy into. These stocks tend to outperform during the back half of bull markets.
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I squeeze oranges every morning to make juice.
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I think the kids in school that laughed at the clothes that we wore and the house that we lived in, and then my mother had to cut hair... I think that was a good motivator. Every time they laughed at me, they just built a fire, and there was only one way to put it out - to try and show 'em I was as good as they were.
