John Young Quotes

We need to be smarter. We are very ignorant about things that go on in our solar system.

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• There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Food
  • Like
  • Wonderful

• All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Amazing
  • Lists
  • Link

• To me that's part of my working day, and I would never refuse a job where I'm under several hours of makeup, because as an actor, I enjoy performing. It's about the creation of the character and the art to me, not about being comfortable and how long it all takes.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Long
  • Art
  • Character

• My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn't mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn't bother me. I was never trying to please her.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• I've got my Peabody and my Saturn awards right next to each other on my mantle, and that is about it, and that is all that matters.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Right
  • Matters
  • Awards

• I am the only 'celebrity' to be public about my lung cancer.

  

  Kathryn Joosten
  • Cancer
  • Celebrity

• I've gone down several paths. I started school as an engineer, but underneath it all, I knew I wanted to use instruments, not build them.

  

  Jidenna Theodore Mobisson
  • School

• Caitlyn seems so much happier and freer in her feminine self.

  

  Linda Thompson

• On the way to work good-hearted young girls sometimes offer me their seats, which I accept and bless them in return, a transaction satisfying to all concerned.

  

  Lionel Blue
  • Good
  • Work

• Polls show that Arabs admire a lot of the Western values, cultural aspects in the West. It is more about policies than about way of life.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • Way
  • Polls

• Follow your musical instincts. Do what you feel is right. Don't be relegated to a certain category.

  

  Glenn Frey The Eagles
  • Feels
  • Certain
  • Musical

• As an actor, you can steer a scene in another direction by playing it a little differently. And honestly? I like being an actor, and I want to keep having a career.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Career
  • Actor
  • Scene

• Curb Your Enthusiasm set me up so perfectly. That was one of my favorite shows before I got on it. That started a whole different level of a story for me. I didn't know how to process it until after I got on the show and realized what the purpose of it was.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Up
  • Different
  • Purpose

• Atheists have an excellent longevity record because we have no place to go after we die, so we take good care of ourselves and our world while we are here.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • World
  • Good
  • Die

• Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Time
  • Long
  • Forever

• Our most meaningful conversations go on late at night when we're on the phone with our friends or talking to our lovers.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Friends
  • Night
  • Meaningful

• And this indifference is still very much present in modern South Africa. Just listen to Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer - a representative of the British elite in this country: Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Women
  • Country
  • Present

• People need to write articles and they need to have angles in them and I'm grateful when people are doing articles, but I always say there's not a great mystery to stand-up comedy.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • People
  • Writing
  • Comedy

• Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • People
  • Spirit
  • Praise

• Understanding human motivation ought to be a good thing. It should help us to find out what we really want so that we can avoid chasing rainbows that are not for us. It should open up opportunities for self-development if we apply motivational principles to pursuing our goals in life.

  

  David McClelland
  • Goals
  • motivation
  • Self-Development

• A military man can scarcely pride himself on having 'smitten a sleeping enemy'; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten. I would rather you made your appraisal after seeing what the enemy does, since it is certain that, angered and outraged, he will soon launch a determined counterattack.

  

  Isoroku Yamamoto
  • Men
  • Sleep
  • Military

• Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Man
  • Myself
  • Young

• Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe, - Sailed on a river of crystal light Into a sea of dew.

  

  Eugene Field
  • Light
  • River
  • Sailed

• We need to be smarter. We are very ignorant about things that go on in our solar system.

  

  John Young
  • Ignorant
  • Solar