John Caudwell Quotes

I'm addicted to the deal, to the next thing. It's irresistible.

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• You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Think
  • Never
  • Same

• My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Music
  • School
  • Mother

• An ambitious, surreal tale of the love between a young Arab girl sold into marriage and the orphan boy she adopts, 'Habibi' spans multiple eras of conflict and change, stretching the lifetimes of its two protagonists over many centuries.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Change
  • Marriage
  • Conflict

• RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Change

• I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• I believe in something that maybe can be defined as the God in one's heart, in the heart of every human being, but not in a God who sits on high looking down on us and taking care of us and whom we bother with things trivial and weighty so that he will be good to us and arrange things for us here.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Good
  • God
  • Believe

• The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Poetry
  • Poet
  • Importance

• I've never taken the steps to be 'successful': I've never had a manager or signed to a publishing house.

  

  J. Tillman
  • House
  • Taken
  • Never

• VW has held a beloved place in American culture. When I graduated from college, many of my friends drove across the country, and most hit the road in a VW van or Bug. Through the years, these cars have represented youth, freedom and quirkiness.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Country
  • Friends
  • American

• Because Social Security has not contributed to our debt, Americans should be skeptical of any politician who says that benefits Americans have earned must be reduced in order to address our national debt.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • Security
  • Social
  • Debt

• Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Simple
  • Beauty
  • Stand

• Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Need
  • Architecture
  • Japanese

• Diving is a really, really difficult one because a player is the only one who genuinely knows whether they have dived. You can look at it at 40 different angles and not know. And you can just fall over, too.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Different
  • Know
  • Fall

• My mum didn't really let me watch TV until I was about 5 years old.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • Old
  • Really
  • Watch

• Everything belongs to me because I am poor.

  

  Jack Kerouac

• Logic has borrowed, perhaps, the rules of geometry, without comprehending their force... it does not thence follow that they have entered into the spirit of geometry, and I should be greatly averse... to placing them on a level with that science that teaches the true method of directing reason.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • True
  • Science
  • Logic

• We don't think U.S. consumers want less choice.

  

  Jeff Bewkes

• We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens.

  

  Bob Ehrlich
  • Safety

• We were the persons who made this good beginning, and it was not until two years later, when we had made the conquest, and introduced good morals and better manners among the inhabitants, that the pious Franciscan brothers arrived, and three or four years after the virtuous monks of the Dominican order, who further continued the good work, and spread Christianity through the country. The first part of the work, however, next to the Almighty, was done by us, the true Conquistadores, who subdued the country, and by the Brothers of Charity, who accompanied.

  

  Bernal Díaz del Castillo
  • Beginning
  • Manners
  • Conquest

• Human beings do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place, and lost their true purpose. They search everywhere for their place and purpose, with great anxiety. But they cannot find them because they are surrounded by darkness.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Purpose
  • Anxiety
  • Human Beings

• Cleveland fans are awesome.

  

  LeBron James
  • Awesome

• Games are like Rorschachs made of human relationships.

  

  Bernie De Koven
  • Humans
  • Games
  • Relationships

• I'm addicted to the deal, to the next thing. It's irresistible.

  

  John Caudwell