Eric Sevareid Quotes

Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.

Eric Sevareid

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• Broadway is really my life.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Broadway

• One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Know
  • Never
  • Lies

• When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • God
  • May
  • Business

• There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Myself
  • Learn
  • Criticism

• Look at Inuit clothing. Their stuff still works better than Cabela's. I've made my own parkas, mukluks, footgear, and it is good to 60 degrees below zero. All I did was copy the patterns that came down from the Inuits.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Good
  • Better
  • Down

• Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Path
  • Leave
  • Lead

• You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Life
  • Know
  • Parent

• One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Up
  • Work
  • Know

• Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Problem
  • Students
  • Israel

• If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.

  

  T-Pain
  • Money
  • Think
  • Parents

• Apparently, I'm very good at firing a gun without blinking, which is unusual. That's why so many action characters have to wear sunglasses during shoot-out scenes. That's my party trick.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Good
  • Why
  • Action

• I love the folk-rock of the Seventies and the pop of the Eighties.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Rock
  • Pop
  • Seventies

• I'm like every other woman: a closet full of clothes, but nothing to wear: So I wear jeans.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Woman
  • Clothes
  • Jeans

• I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Me
  • Challenge
  • Doing

• For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do anything if you put your mind to it. What he stood for formed the core of who I wanted to be as I grew up, and informed how I view the world and my responsibilities to other people.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Fun
  • Violence
  • Things

• When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Home
  • Play
  • Baby

• Miramax wanted the buzz to spread, but slowly, so people would be clamoring for it, ... Chicago.

  

  Neil Meron
  • People
  • Chicago
  • Buzz

• In spite of all the talk and study about our next years, all the silent ponderings about what lies within them...it seems plain to us that many things are wrong in the present ones that can be, must be, changed. Our texture of belief has great holes in it. Our pattern lacks pieces.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Great
  • Present
  • Study

• I'm a lifetime Green Bay Packers fan.

  

  Bob Iger
  • Green

• I want to continue to show what I'm all about.

  

  Eric Weddle

• There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one day he suffocated through his excessive pity.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • One Day
  • Account
  • Suffocated

• Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.

  

  Eric Sevareid
  • Men
  • Power