Max Aaron Quotes

I'm not afraid of falling or failing, because I've failed many times, and I learned from them.

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• You won't see me at a microphone singing and tapping my foot. I spend a lot of money on sets, costumes and sound. I believe people deserve a show. I'm a singer, musician, dancer. I work hard, and I'm soaking wet when I come off.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Important
  • Career
  • Interesting

• All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Comedy
  • Mirror
  • Films

• Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • People
  • Bad
  • Day

• Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Humble
  • Most
  • Jealousy

• An independent Scotland could be far more internationalist and would benefit a great deal from links to both Scandinavia and states in other continents.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Great
  • Independent
  • Far

• My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Family
  • Brother
  • Year

• I love the Beatles.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Beatles

• I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Way
  • Hero
  • Bond

• If the result of a war is to change nothing, but only to destroy, with the mere result that a group of human beings who do not differ notably from the conquered acquires preponderant advantages for the future, there is lacking the affective strength of an existence that has inspired faith, of an existence whose destiny would have been decided by the war.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • War
  • Future
  • Faith

• The main way that being adopted has shaped my songwriting is that I was asked at an early age to consider the circumstances that led to my life, and in a way, I was introduced to how fragile and unlikely life is from the beginning.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Life
  • Age
  • Beginning

• I get to travel the world doing what I love to do - making other people happy... They might not even understand my words, but the one thing everybody understands is music.

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• My goal was to have a company off the ground by the time I graduated. But the worst-case scenario was I would have an MBA and a lot of opportunities ahead of me.

  

  Katrina Lake
  • Time

• I've had a nontabloid life because I had a really good family.

  

  Peter Billingsley
  • Life
  • Good
  • Family

• I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do.

  

  Christina Romer
  • Financial

• It's kind of a loping stroke. It's not the prettiest stroke. But it's what's most efficient for me. And I think I kick a little more than most swimmers do.

  

  Katie Ledecky

• Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

  

  Margaret Deland
  • Spiritual
  • Sacrifice

• I used to be prettier than I am, but I think I look better now. I was a pretty boy. Particularly in my early movies. I don't like looking at them so much. There's a sort of pretty thing about me.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • Pretty
  • Boy

• I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Forgotten
  • Reviews
  • Vicious

• The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry.

  

  John L. Lewis
  • Men
  • Home

• In junior high, I really wanted to be popular. Suddenly there were parties with boys, and I wanted to be part of that. There was a group of girls, and I wanted to be friends with them.

  

  Amy Heckerling
  • Friends
  • High
  • Popular

• I can still remember the afternoon, on my 15th birthday, when I opened up 'The Virgin and the Gypsy,' D.H. Lawrence's novella, in my tiny cell in boarding school, and whole worlds of possibility opened out that I had never guessed existed. The language was on fire and sang of liberation.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • Up
  • School
  • Remember

• In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms and alliterations. You have to read poetry slow, slow, slow to absorb it all.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • Poetry
  • High School
  • Rhythms

• I'm not afraid of falling or failing, because I've failed many times, and I learned from them.

  

  Max Aaron