Ernie Pyle Quotes

I try not to take any foolish chances, but there's just no way to play it completely safe and still do your job.

Ernie Pyle

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• I'm a huge gamer. I'm very excited, and the idea of the Rift was as a headset that was designed around the specific uses of VR gaming. But I'm excited about a lot of stuff that's outside of it, because I was a VR enthusiast. I want VR to be the thing that we all live in, that we all use for everything, not just games.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Live
  • Want
  • Everything

• No decent career was ever founded on a public.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Career
  • Ever
  • Decent

• It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Strong
  • Acting
  • Weak

• Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Black
  • Ancestors

• Discipline and united action are the real source of strength for the nation.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Real
  • Action
  • Discipline

• I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Great
  • Think
  • Want

• There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Up
  • Good
  • Learning

• A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • Alone
  • Environment

• By the time I got to set for 'Cobra,' I think I'd lost about 28 pounds in about a month and a half. I didn't want to look back and be like, 'Wow, someone should stop eating PB and J's.' Like, if I'm going to look back when I'm 80, I wanted to be like, 'Wow, okay, I looked pretty fit. I used my youth right.'

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Lost

• These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Everything
  • Media
  • Turn

• When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Life
  • Real
  • Freedom

• Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Science
  • Profession
  • Ethical

• I'm not a top-five player yet. Maybe I'm close to it, but I still have to work on some aspects. You can only be part of that group if you are decisive in the top games.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Work
  • Player
  • Games

• I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Night
  • Dark
  • Afraid

• I'm not good at multi-tasking.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Good

• I met a woman who went through a very difficult personal crisis, and she was really bed-ridden for a long time, and 'Friends' got her through. I met a woman who had a brain injury while living in Europe, and 'Friends' got her through.

  

  Maggie Wheeler
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Brain

• Meeting Helen Mirren was a fabulous experience. I had played it out in my mind, how I should greet her when we would be introduced. But the way we met was funny because I just didn't recognise her!

  

  Om Puri
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Funny

• I don't leave London, really, and I don't do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Theatre

• To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Job
  • Security
  • Honest

• The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play called 'Slipping,' and at the same time I was rehearsing another play at Playwrights Horizons, and that kind of snowballed into a bunch of plays.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Time
  • Job
  • Same

• There's no sense in doing something, especially if it's a hard job, if you can't have a little fun.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Job
  • Fun
  • Doing

• My first job ever, I was 14 years old - I was working at this mom-and-pop video store, and they basically paid me by allowing me to take home as many movies as I wanted, and that's how I started watching all the classics and really getting into it.

  

  Dave Franco
  • Home
  • Job
  • Mom

• I'm only going to get better and better. Not going to get worse.

  

  Jason Pierre-Paul

• I try not to take any foolish chances, but there's just no way to play it completely safe and still do your job.

  

  Ernie Pyle
  • Job
  • Safe
  • Foolish