Joseph Barber Lightfoot Quotes

I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.

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• After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Work
  • Real

• We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

  

  Warren Weaver
  • Science
  • Ignorance
  • View

• For everyday clothes, I love North Face and Rohan, and for smarter options, I like Whistles and Agnes b on Marylebone High Street.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Like
  • Everyday
  • Options

• I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Think
  • Birth

• In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.

  

  Manfred Eigen
  • Practice
  • Difference
  • Theory

• All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Done
  • Bad
  • Change

• As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • Die
  • Worry
  • Born

• If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Movie
  • Laugh
  • Comfort

• All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Want
  • Back
  • Congress

• The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Mother
  • Like
  • Public

• Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.

  

  Victoria Secunda
  • World
  • Home
  • War

• I don't hit it as far as a lot of guys do, so I have to be in the right spot in the fairway to score, and that means driving it well. The two biggest keys for me are to make a good transition and to keep my hands ahead of the clubhead through impact. I want to feel as if my swing is two swings: one going back and another coming down.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Good
  • Me
  • Driving

• I spent a lot of time in boarding school. This is something I will never do to my kids. I think if you're having kids, then you have to take care of them; otherwise, what's the point? There are many things that parents say are good for the kids, but the truth is they say that because it is good for the parents.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Time
  • Good
  • School

• As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.

  

  Nash Grier
  • Time
  • Learning
  • Mistake

• I love the feeling that you get when you can really laugh with a man and be natural and not always think that there's a sexual element going on. For me, flirting with a man means making fun of myself and trying to open myself and be very unpretentious.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Man
  • Feeling
  • Natural

• Hemingway was a jerk.

  

  Harold Robbins
  • Jerk
  • Hemingway

• I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Always
  • Model
  • Lovely

• I baked bread, hand-ground peanuts into butter, grew and froze vegetables, and, every morning, packed lunches so healthful that they had no takers in the grand swap-fest of the lunchroom.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Hand
  • Morning
  • Bread

• I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Born
  • England
  • I Was Born

• I don't think I'm the world's greatest producer or songwriter or anything.

  

  Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes
  • World

• I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love.

  

  John Steinbeck
  • Respect

• There are a lot of recent pics of me rocking silk strings of beads. They're made by survivors of the sex trade in Cambodia who were rescued by one of the organizations I support.

  

  AnnaLynne McCord
  • Support
  • Sex

• They say getting a show on the air and having it be a success, literally, the odds are like winning the lottery. For me, I've won the lottery several times, so I've been awfully lucky.

  

  Annie Potts
  • Success
  • Air
  • Winning

• I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.

  

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot
  • Success
  • Failure