Earl Scruggs Quotes

I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.

Earl Scruggs

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• I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Game
  • Doing
  • Edge

• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Great
  • Business
  • America

• Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Winter
  • Focused
  • Classic

• One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Up
  • Moments
  • Looks

• I've always wanted to do a period piece.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Always
  • Period
  • Wanted

• I believe in the impossible because no one else does.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Believe
  • Impossible

• When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a writer. I'm going to write screenplays. I'm going to write books. I'm going to write plays. That's what I'm going to do.'

  

  Mara Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Grow

• I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Fashion
  • Loved
  • Advertising

• I'm such a bad shopper for myself. I love fashion and all that kind of stuff, but that's sort of the last thing I want to do when I'm done with a film is go shopping. I want to just chill.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Bad
  • Kind
  • Fashion

• Whether we can call 'Hell or High Water' this rogue buddy bank-heist movie, it's also a meditation on assimilation and failure and what happens when someone loses their purpose.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Movie
  • High
  • Water

• There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Believe
  • History
  • Change

• In religion, there's a certain type of fear that if somebody believes differently from me, that it's a threat. Because I'm right, and there cannot be two ways that are right, so if I'm right, anything different than this must be wrong; and we attack those things and it's really due to insecurity, ego and fear.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Different
  • Fear
  • Religion

• It's so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Think
  • Unique
  • Snowflake

• My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childhood among the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

  

  Kai Bird
  • Father
  • Career
  • Service

• I can hold my breath for 7 minutes and 5 seconds.

  

  Tanc Sade
  • I Can
  • Breath
  • Hold

• To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Professional

• When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Respect
  • Practice
  • Thankful

• I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Think

• Dear Mother, dear Mother, the Church is cold, But the Ale-house is healthy and pleasant and warm.

  

  William Blake
  • Mother
  • Church
  • Pleasant

• There's not enough time in each day to really focus enough attention on any one thing, but I'm doing my best. I have a great group of people who support me, and I don't sleep a lot. It's like I'm on a constantly spinning merry-go-round, and every day, I'm wondering when it will stop so I can get off. I love what I do, so that helps a lot.

  

  Alex Guarnaschelli
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• It's the extra effort after you have done your best that creates victory.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Done
  • Effort
  • Victory

• I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Work
  • Great
  • Think

• I really use social media to keep up with what's happening.

  

  Ana Navarro
  • Up

• I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Attention
  • Enjoy
  • Pay