Gaines Adams Quotes
I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.Gaines Adams
Quotes to Explore
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
Umberto Eco -
Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
Larry Elder -
I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little more intimidating. Even the maid who comes to work for me once a week has found out that she can just trample over me... I'm a Cancer! We are not ferocious people.
Karen Black -
How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
Sam Abell -
In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
Daniel Clowes -
The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
Maggie Smith
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I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.
Ramez Naam -
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Napoleon Hill -
I'm not a Democrat.
Aaron McGruder -
I don't feel as if I belong to an age group.
Quentin Blake -
Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
Kate Beckinsale -
Looking beautiful isn't just about what you apply on your face. It's the little things you do that matter. A combination of a good diet, exercise, healthy habits, discipline, dancing etc. is what my beauty routine consists of. Also, I have no bad habits; I don't drink or smoke. All these contribute to me being fit and looking good.
Madhuri Dixit
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I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
Daisy Ridley -
I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.
Karolyn Grimes -
For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
Ace Frehley Kiss -
I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
Daniel Barenboim -
Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
Fay Godwin -
I sure am handsome. I can't lie. This is one handsome guy.
Landon Donovan
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All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
Alexis de Tocqueville -
Consumer habits are key to understanding how to launch a product.
Charles Duhigg -
I love things that are easy to throw on, that I don't have to think about. Like skinny jeans and a T-shirt is easy for me.
Kourtney Kardashian -
With 'The Muppet Show' we used to play with a lot of different styles. That's what it was: a variety thing.
Jim Henson -
I graduated with a degree in musical theater and no skill in anything else to make money; I wish I had gotten a massage therapy kit or something where I could have made my own money.
Kathleen Rose Perkins -
I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.
Gaines Adams