Joseph Wambaugh Quotes

I write a thousand words a day. Nothing will stop me, I mean nothing, until the book is finished. I'm disciplined in spite of myself.

Joseph Wambaugh

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• There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.

  

  Hannes Alfven
  • Time
  • Universe
  • Doubt

• I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Good
  • Good Things

• No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Book
  • Enjoy
  • Comedians

• A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Beautiful
  • Strong
  • Giving

• My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Myself
  • Idea
  • Original

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact, loved. As it turned out, math itself blazed my entry back into the spotlight and consequently into wonderful acting jobs like 'The West Wing' and others. You just never know, do you?

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Acting
  • End
  • Media

• My first inspiration for acting came from the first episode of 'Hannah Montana.' That's when I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actress.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Inspiration
  • Acting
  • Actress

• Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Life
  • Family
  • Education

• I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • God
  • Weird
  • Thank God

• You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

  

  Harold Prince
  • You
  • Couple
  • Years

• I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Travel
  • Luxury
  • Cuddling

• I just had a normal African childhood; we played football a lot, but it was always in the street and always without shoes. Boots were very expensive, and when there are seven in your family, and you say you want to buy a pair, your father wants to kill you.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Family
  • Father
  • Football

• 'Giving 2.0' is about making your giving matter more to the people we all hope to help, and it's about making your giving matter more to you.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • People
  • Help
  • Hope

• I feel like the rap metal at the end of the 1990s destroyed rock music for everybody and suddenly everybody felt like they had to apologise for being in rock bands. People suddenly felt bad about wanting to reach massive audiences and the sense of theatre, that we have in our live show, became something to avoid.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • People
  • Music
  • Live

• When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad I wasn't lying anymore.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • She
  • Said
  • Lying

• My plan was to be able to make a living as an actor.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Actor
  • Living
  • Plan

• I think that the major message in 'Shrek: The Musical' is be who you want to be. I think that it is about being your true self in this world.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • World
  • True
  • Think

• Some is more equal than others, as is well known. It ain't that your majority is outnumbered, you're just out-surrounded.

  

  Walt Kelly

• In everything, depend upon yourself, but work in harmony with all things. Do not depend even upon the Infinite, but learn to work and live in harmony with the Infinite. The highest teachings of the Christ reveal most clearly the principle that no soul was created to be a mere helpless instrument in the hands of Supreme Power, but that every soul should act and live in perfect oneness with that Power. And the promise is that we all are not only to do the things that Christ did, but even greater things.

  

  Christian D. Larson
  • Work
  • Yourself
  • Harmony

• After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • New
  • India
  • China

• When people are reading a book, it's a personal thing. They're reading it; it's in their own mind; it's in their own personal space when they're reading it.

  

  Kristy Swanson
  • People
  • Mind
  • Book

• There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Society
  • Currency
  • Basis

• I write a thousand words a day. Nothing will stop me, I mean nothing, until the book is finished. I'm disciplined in spite of myself.

  

  Joseph Wambaugh
  • Book
  • Write
  • Disciplined