John Templeton Quotes

Those who spend too much will eventually be owned by those who are thrifty.

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• I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Long
  • Now
  • Racing

• To me, a bag in a tree is like a flag of chaos, and when I remove it, I'm capturing the flag of the other side. In the end, it doesn't matter how ironic or serious or even effective on a larger scale bag snagging may be.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • May
  • Serious
  • End

• Many places in the Bronx seem hidden in shadows, just as the Bronx itself is in Manhattan's shadow. And dark stories develop best in dark shadows.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • Best
  • Dark
  • Shadow

• Because my parents are Indian, everybody speaks Hindi to me, and I have no idea what they are saying.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Parents
  • Idea
  • Saying

• Is it ever too late for a sequel?

  

  Gary Goetzman
  • Late
  • Ever
  • Too Late

• I want to bring that old soul back, the meaningful lyrics and all of that. And I can't think of a better way to do that than through Motown.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Think
  • Soul
  • Better

• The only thing I really, really want is for the U.S. to win again. Just to win another team gold. And, of course I would really want to win an all-around gold.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Team
  • Win
  • Gold

• Life is never free of contradictions.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • Life
  • Free
  • Never

• I love that sense of release as you throw yourself into the crowd as hundreds of arms are carrying you.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Sense
  • Arms
  • Crowd

• A thief believes everybody steals.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Everybody
  • Thief
  • Steals

• I'm a big online everything. But for me, shopping online started with music, obviously, then it went onto books, meditation CDs, and I just recently bought these electronic cigarettes. My husband is trying to quit smoking, so I went online and I bought those BluCigs cigarettes in every flavor for him.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Music
  • Meditation
  • Shopping

• Monty Python never directly said, 'We're liberals' - they just did their sketches, and you had to figure it out. Generally, they were anti-establishment, of course, making fun of the people in power. I think, comedians, that's their job - pointing out what other people might not notice and going, 'Yoo-hoo, over here.'

  

  Dana Carvey
  • People
  • Job
  • Power

• Good luck is a residue of preparation.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Good
  • Luck
  • Preparation

• I treat the act of making a record very much like working in a laboratory, experimenting with sounds and ideas... Whoever chooses to latch onto it, great; whoever doesn't, that's fine, too. The reaction always pales in comparison to the weight of the act of production.

  

  M. Ward
  • Great

• String theory seems to be incompatible with a world in which a cosmological constant has a positive sign, which is what the observations indicate.

  

  Lee Smolin
  • World
  • Positive

• The time of year I love the weather the most here is the fall, and I've never really gotten to experience the mountains and Denver in the fall because I was always playing and traveling.

  

  Joe Sakic
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Fall

• If you forget your history, you forget who you are.

  

  David Robinson The Cars
  • History

• I always play songs that are very based in folk music.

  

  Jenny Scheinman
  • Music

• When I used to live in Toronto, I would always be the busiest person out of all my friends... no one could relate to what I was doing. When I'm in L.A., I constantly feel like I'm keeping up with people, and I love that.

  

  Lilly Singh
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• Chicago is constantly auditioning for the world, determined that one day, on the streets of Barcelona, in Berlin's cabarets, in the coffee shops of Istanbul, people will know and love us in our multidimensional glory, dream of us the way they dream of San Francisco and New York.

  

  Mary Schmich
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• Maybe libertarians especially like Reddit because it is a perfect marketplace of content. Every Redditor is created equal, whether you're the highest karma Redditor or a brand-new Redditor with 10 karma points. No submissions or votes are more equal than others.

  

  Alexis Ohanian
  • Perfect
  • Karma

• You can say your lines a million different ways and play your character a million different ways and still hit the common, agreed-upon finish line.

  

  Jason Bateman
  • Different
  • Character

• That I can't relate to today's music or morals doesn't make either necessarily bad. Just different. I leave the judgements to others.

  

  Perry Como
  • Music
  • Different
  • Bad

• Those who spend too much will eventually be owned by those who are thrifty.

  

  John Templeton