Evel Knievel Quotes
She (my ex-wife) wanted me to stop being Evel Knievel. I am who I am. I'm not going to change. I'll settle down the day they put me in a six-foot pine box.
Quotes to Explore
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The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.
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Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
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The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.
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Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
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Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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Anytime I listen to my gut and I don't do something, or I do, it always tends to work out in my favor.
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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!
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Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.
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Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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Yoga may look peaceful and calming, but even Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble breathing after twenty 'surya namaskars' in a row.
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I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
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I do believe the potential for ConnectU was as big as Facebook's, absolutely.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich.
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They screwed us up one year, and we want to turn it back at them whenever we can.
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People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.
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The New York Philharmonic is a tremendous opportunity, a great orchestra.
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She (my ex-wife) wanted me to stop being Evel Knievel. I am who I am. I'm not going to change. I'll settle down the day they put me in a six-foot pine box.
