George Foreman Quotes

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

George Foreman

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• I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Home
  • Enough
  • Lucky

• Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• I know what my comfort zones are. But without a back-up, I will never step out of my comfort zone. I don't go bungee jumping; I won't jump from the third floor without a safety net. I don't do such things. That's not my personality type.

  

  Kajol
  • Up
  • Personality
  • Safety

• It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • People
  • Important
  • Money

• I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Mind

• I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Action
  • Kind
  • Looking

• We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Life
  • Work
  • Value

• 'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Love

• I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Think
  • Cool
  • Earnest

• All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Love
  • True

• For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Why
  • Job
  • Day

• A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Culture
  • Ideas
  • Moment

• One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Courage
  • Pessimism

• I don't like cooking just for myself; I enjoy feeding other people, particularly outdoors.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Myself
  • Enjoy

• I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Brother
  • Child

• It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Courage
  • Rules
  • Limits

• As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.

  

  Kajol
  • Work
  • You
  • Expectations

• I just think too much sometimes.

  

  Jeff Buckley

• A good team is a great place to be, exciting, stimulating, supportive, successful. A bad team is horrible, a sort of human prison.

  

  Charles Handy
  • Good
  • Great
  • Bad

• When girls feel bad about their looks, 60 percent avoid normal daily activities like raising their hand in class or even going to the doctor. That means that girls do not show up for life when they don't feel good enough or pretty enough. A role model can help girls see beauty as a source of confidence, not anxiety.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I've never done anything but what I wanted to do with my life. I don't think too many people can say that. I wrote the songs I wanted to write, for me. I had no idea that 'American Pie' would relate to anybody.

  

  Don McLean
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.

  

  Alison Gopnik
  • Death
  • Earth
  • Fear

• My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

  

  George Foreman
  • Life
  • Kids
  • House