Larry Speakes Quotes

Ol' Shoot from the Lip," we call him.

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• I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Up
  • Conversation
  • Talking

• You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.

  

  Ilya Ehrenburg
  • Earth
  • Green
  • Grass

• All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Earth
  • Face
  • Furniture

• I feel like I was born to do this... 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

• The Anger Management Tour was another beautiful thing. I loved that tour.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Beautiful
  • Management
  • Anger

• Die nächste Flut verwischt den Weg im Watt, und alles wird auf allen Seiten gleich; die kleine Insel draußen aber hat die Augen zu; verwirrend kreist der Deichum ihre Wohner, die in einem Schlaf geboren werden, drin sie viele Welten verwechseln schweigend, denn sie reden selten, und jeder Satz ist wie ein Epitaph

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Die

• We can search among the unconscious, emotion-laden learning rules for the kind of behavior most directly influenced by genetic evolution.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Learning
  • Search

• 3) Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Fun
  • Mother
  • Nature

• When you're young, you don't have a lot of control over even basic things in your life - where you live, what you eat, where you go during the day, how you get there. You don't have a lot of control, and that can feel sort of unstable in its own way because you don't get a say in those basic things.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Life
  • Live
  • Control

• I would be delighted not to see another celebrity, regardless of their political beliefs, come to Washington to make yet another appeal for some cause about which they know little.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • Political
  • Celebrity

• I always want fighting spirit first.

  

  Claudio Ranieri
  • Fighting

• That's one of my focuses, is to increase my flexibility and strength and have greater range of motion.

  

  Jake Arrieta

• I never really watched much stand-up growing up. I just was not really that into it. But I can say I honestly fell in love with it the second I touched the microphone. It was like this weird thing where it's like, 'Oh, yeah, this is what I'm supposed to do.'

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Weird

• If you start your own thing, you can learn a lot really fast from doing things wrong.

  

  Drew Houston

• I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It's not super-poetic, it's just from the heart.

  

  Bruno Mars
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Simplicity

• When someone asks if you want to play Brittany Murphy, who you idolized as a child and grew up loving and who you wanted to be, you can't say no. Even if it's the most terrifying thing someone asks you to do.

  

  Amanda Fuller
  • Up

• If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Wise
  • Devil

• Make a list of all the people in your life, and rate them in terms of energy in, energy out. Is there anyone in your life right now who is blocking your love quest?

  

  Joanna Coles
  • People
  • Life
  • Energy

• The pain is necessary. Sometimes pain is the teacher we require, a hidden gift of healing and hope.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Hope
  • Pain
  • Sometimes

• It's easier to say, 'Don't care about what anyone thinks,' than it is to actually not care about what anyone thinks. But, honestly, anything you're passionate about, that's what you'll be the best at.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • Passionate
  • Actually
  • Thinks

• I am an alien. I start a lot of relationships with artists because of what I'm capable of doing with the machine and with beats. Anyone can just listen to a beat, that's boring. But when you actually perform in front of them, it's like: wow. It's undeniable talent. That's my advantage.

  

  AraabMuzik
  • Artist
  • Advantage
  • Beats

• What you get is what you get. What you do with what you get, that’s more the point.

  

  Tim Robbins
  • Point

• [Bob] Corker was an early endorser.

  

  Andrea Mitchell
  • Bob

• Ol' Shoot from the Lip," we call him.

  

  Larry Speakes
  • Shoot
  • Lip