Bubba Sparxxx (Warren Anderson Mathi) Quotes

In the rural South, you have a town of 30,000 people and everybody's pretty much thrown on the same pile of doo-doo. You just learn to make the best of it and live with one another.

Bubba Sparxxx

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• Relationships, it seems to me, are timeless. What works between two people always works; what doesn't is always troublesome. Over time, people learn - or not - how to negotiate what's difficult, but that doesn't mean the misfit has gone away entirely.

  

  Rafael Yglesias
  • People
  • Time
  • Learn

• The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Life
  • Change
  • Master

• Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.

  

  Madisen Beaty
  • School
  • Friends
  • Parents

• I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.

  

  Kate Flannery
  • Love
  • Think
  • Awesome

• It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • May
  • Cold
  • Friendship

• Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Up
  • America
  • Light

• Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in the Lord. Through humility, some have even possessed the gates of their enemies. For which of the virtues is so mighty to subdue the pride of demons and the tyranny of men?

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Good
  • Men
  • Spiritual

• You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.

  

  Yeardley Smith
  • You
  • Monster
  • Buildings

• The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • More
  • Fortune
  • Pity

• I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Thought

• I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Up
  • Time
  • Lost

• Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Always
  • See
  • Look

• Experimenting with your own life is the most fundamental medium we have.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Life
  • Own
  • Most

• I haven't chosen any party yet because people choose parties when they get older. When it's time, I'll look, and if I can't find one to join, I'll make another party.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Time
  • Party

• He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Call
  • Falls
  • Niagara

• I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Fans will express themselves. We will always have the best security possible, as we always do. And I hope that Cleveland and the fans, you would hope that everybody keeps it to a certain level, because anything you do that crosses the line isn't going to look bad for anybody but the franchise and Cleveland.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Bad
  • Hope
  • Best

• God is a great concept, but it doesn't work

  

  Kevin Smith
  • Work
  • Great
  • God

• A sign in the yard of a church next door said CHRIST IS THE ANSWER. (The question, of course, is: What do you say when you strike your thumb with a hammer?)

  

  Bill Bryson
  • Question
  • Church
  • Door

• People always ask me how long somebody can last as long as I've been lasting and continue to keep doing it, so I figured that people didn't really know how to do that.

  

  Jermaine Dupri Mauldin
  • People
  • Long

• As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there.

  

  Mehmet Oz
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Simple
  • Loss
  • Losing

• In the rural South, you have a town of 30,000 people and everybody's pretty much thrown on the same pile of doo-doo. You just learn to make the best of it and live with one another.

  

  Bubba Sparxxx
  • People
  • Live
  • Pretty