Ernie Banks Quotes

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• It's an error in judgment to bounce into starting a small business before you cash in on building a strong foundation.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Business
  • Strong
  • Small

• Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Sound
  • Accent
  • Classes

• As long as the dollar remains in high esteem as a trade currency, America can continue to spend more than it earns. But when the day arrives - as it certainly must - when the dollar tumbles and foreigners no longer want it, the free ride will be over.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Long
  • America
  • High

• I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.

  

  Pam Dawber
  • Happy
  • Pretty
  • Been

• Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Man
  • Cancer
  • Nothing

• Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.

  

  Ira Glass
  • She
  • Me
  • Star

• What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Me
  • Public
  • Glory

• I grew up as one of the few Jews in Edison, and I had people tell me they hated me because of my religion.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • People
  • Up

• I willingly devoted myself to my children and to my husband. I come from a broken home, and I decided a long time ago that I would put my family ahead of everything.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Time
  • Long
  • Children

• There are many Republicans who hardly even know a Democrat. And there are just as many, if not more, Democrats who don't know a Republican.

  

  James Carville

• Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

  

  Mark Hopkins

• That's the beautiful thing about baseball. You can be any size and be successful.

  

  Andrew Benintendi
  • Beautiful
  • Baseball

• My favorite six words in recovery are: trust God, clean house, and help others.

  

  Matthew Perry
  • God
  • Help
  • House

• So now, cut to ten years later, and I'm making this amazing contract with Pantene. It's incredible.

  

  Maria Menounos
  • Amazing

• I'm very rigid about my schedule. I sit down at 8 A.M., and the Internet blocker goes on. My standard time is 120 minutes. I'm a compulsive writer, so it reminds me to stop writing... If I write more than that, I turn into an ogre for my kids.

  

  Claire Cameron
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Kids

• Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Time
  • Taken

• I'm all for big production - I love putting on shows.

  

  Derek Hough

• I'm always aware of various audiences, as a part of my training as a journalist and as part of my training as a citizen of Negroland.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • Training

• I love love stories, no matter how dark.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Love
  • Dark
  • Stories

• The fittest, not the richest, make the most enviable mark. Pampered sons of plutocrats may shine for a time in society, but not in the world of affairs and of service unless they rip off their coats and get to work early and stay late. To be born with a golden spoon in the mouth is more of a handicap than a help in attaining worthwhile success in this age.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn't matter where on what, it's the light itself, against the darkness, it's what's left of God's purpose when you take away God.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Good
  • God
  • Real

• My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Up
  • Want
  • Value

• I don’t think that I am the most informed or that I’ve earned my place to be a political spokes-voice. So I try to keep that type of politic out of my songwriting and I do it more in my personal life. I do a lot of fundraising, I do a lot of awareness raising through charity fundraising and lots of stuff that I do via eBay or my website, and I try to donate to causes that are fighting Trump’s racist system or the awful effects that Brexit is going to have.

  

  Bright Light Bright Light
  • Voice
  • Politic
  • Fundraiser

• The Cubs are gonna shine in sixty-nine.

  

  Ernie Banks
  • Shine
  • Cubs