Hayden Fry (John Hayden Fry) Quotes

You can't control people. You must understand them. You have to know where they're coming from, their beliefs and values, what turns them off, what they're against.

Hayden Fry

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• When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't to be played with. You've got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon' make music, let's just make music.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Time
  • Different
  • White

• In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Today
  • Party

• There have been times I've planted stuff in songs where four years later I'll be singing it from a subconscious, kind of chameleon little lizard mind... and at a certain moment, all of a sudden, I'll hear a line from a different vantage point and it'll change its meaning. It's something I wrote but it changed because I did.

  

  Feist
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Change

• It's very questionable, and we will pursue every factor, every element, every second of the timeline, of the final hours of Maurice's life. We will pursue that relentlessly. That will be our quest from now on.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Life
  • Will
  • Now

• We will do everything within our power to protect Floridians from unlawful debt collection practices that often employ scare tactics to manipulate individuals.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Power
  • Will
  • Debt

• People in general have a preconceived idea of what prison is, from seeing documentaries or whatever.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • Prison
  • Seeing

• I am not discouraged. I really am not. I do not despair for our country. I never do. I believe tonight, as I always have, that the essential decency and compassion and common sense of the American people will prevail. And so I say to you and to others around the world, whether they wish us well or ill: Do not underestimate us Americans.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• The start is crucial, really, but the entire race is crucial. There is not any room for error. If there is one bad stroke, you regularly lose the race.

  

  Mark de Jonge
  • Bad

• I just try to play as hard as I can every possession. If you're aware and you're high-energy, the ball will eventually bounce your way and you'll be able to make plays.

  

  Jeremy Lin
  • High
  • Energy

• Don't live in the past. There's no point. You can't change anything. What a waste of time.

  

  Bob Newhart
  • Time
  • Live
  • Past

• When you're going for a joke, you're stuck out there if it doesn't work. There's nowhere to go. You've done the drum role and the cymbal clash and you're out on the end of the plank.

  

  Bob Newhart
  • Work
  • Done

• All young people, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity, need someone who's got their back.

  

  James Lecesne
  • People
  • Identity

• You always pray for a healthy child, and in this situation, Naieya was born with Spina Bifida... We had choices on the table, and choices to terminate the pregnancy. We could have went on with our lives, and that would have been it, but we decided to take on the challenge.

  

  Deontay Wilder
  • Challenge
  • Choices
  • Pregnancy

• It's not like you can wake up and realize, 'Oh, I want intimacy,' and then it happens that day.

  

  Joey Lauren Adams
  • Up
  • Intimacy

• Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.

  

  Elihu Root
  • Time
  • Men
  • War

• Well, art is not communist - not bourgeois eitherIt's no club and has no party lineNot wild nights make an artist - not drugs or manifestosIt's art - HA HA - that's no secretThe one who makes art - he's the artist..

  

  Kurt Schwitters
  • Art
  • Party

• Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism. And for them to be able to provide nuclear technology to non-state actors, that's unacceptable.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Technology
  • Iran
  • Nuclear

• I like to find things in real life that let me get involved. Or if you need a break, go hang out with your family.

  

  Zendaya
  • Life
  • Real
  • Family

• I feel that beauty and femininity are ageless.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Beauty
  • I Feel
  • Femininity

• The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.

  

  George Eliot
  • Happiness
  • Escape
  • Misery

• My parents would have their friends over - their friends who thought, 'How can you live without a TV?' By the time they left, they understood why, because I had done the second act of 'West Side Story' and the first act of 'Jesus Christ Superstar,' playing all the parts. In many ways, that's what I'm still doing. I'm just getting paid better.

  

  Johnny Galecki
  • Time
  • Live
  • Done

• Doctors should have access to all scientifically sound information so that they can prescribe appropriate medication for their patients.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Information
  • Doctors
  • Patients

• You can't control people. You must understand them. You have to know where they're coming from, their beliefs and values, what turns them off, what they're against.

  

  Hayden Fry