Jonathan Winters Quotes
As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight.Jonathan Winters
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My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.
Candace Parker -
I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.
Maggie Stiefvater -
The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.
Immaculee Ilibagiza -
We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
Edna St. Vincent Millay -
I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
As I have said many times - I like Facebook. I think it is well built and run. It's cool. I think it is, in its next-step way, even visionary.
Kara Swisher
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This was something I always dreamed and wanted to be part of, when women's wrestling was freakin' cool, and now it is.
Becky Lynch -
America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty.
Bainbridge Colby -
If I could choose something besides fashion, I would love to be a ballerina.
Carine Roitfeld -
'(In) Shanghai, if you want some pork soup, you just turn on the tap.'
Lee Hsien Loong -
No art is superior to another one, but every art looks for expertise and perfection. This is life, which continues; this is why there is no death. There is continuation. There is no silence. There is a continuation of thought.
Marcel Marceau -
Mis muertos siguen sufriendo el dolor de la vida en mí.
Antonio Porchia
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I wake up with a sense of wonder. I don't dread the future. I like it.
Eileen Myles -
My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child.
Antonio Villaraigosa -
Being unprepared heightens nerves.
James Galway -
You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?'
Joe DiMaggio -
I really love Celine. Obviously. Alexander Wang. Givenchy. Those are probably my main favorites. Dolce & Gabbana, too.
Emily Ratajkowski -
The big breakthrough for me was, once I stopped disliking conservatives and could actually see what they were right about, they showed me a lot of things that liberals were wrong about. But at the same time, I think there are some things that liberals are right about that conservatives have trouble seeing.
Jonathan Haidt
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They are more like artistic names. Bá is a nickname. It's short for Gá. When I learned to spell letters and words, instead of calling him Gabriel [Ba], I called him Babio. People call him Gá and I call him Bá. So Bá is a nickname.
Gabriel Ba -
When riches begin to come they come so quickly, in such great abundance, that one wonders where they have been hiding during all those lean years.
Napoleon Hill -
It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.
Abraham Lincoln -
The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.
Charles A. Reich -
As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight.
Jonathan Winters