Sandy Duncan Quotes

We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed.

Sandy Duncan

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• Raised
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• Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.'

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Man
  • Courage

• If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Day
  • Fall
  • Tree

• It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.

  

  Ed Greenwood
  • Story
  • Yourself
  • Surprise

• In America, music is more tightly categorized.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • Music
  • America
  • More

• You don't want to meet anybody in Cannes. It's the worst place, I think, to meet somebody - one of the worst places.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Think
  • Want
  • Place

• If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Food

• I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Think
  • You
  • President

• One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Time
  • Hand
  • Listening

• I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • School
  • High
  • Wish

• For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Time
  • Long
  • Job

• I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Good
  • Want
  • Movies

• Our founders said that everybody mattered, everybody counted. But we all know that they didn't count everybody at the beginning. They did somehow have confidence that each generation of Americans would do a better job with it and would bring more and more people in from the margins and into the heart and soul of our democracy.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • People
  • Heart
  • Job

• When students have thanked me in the past for being their teacher, I have always felt that it was actually my love for the art of teaching they were speaking to.

  

  Taylor Mali
  • Love
  • Art
  • Past

• I may adopt. I love children and I do feel the need to take the legacy forward. I am open to it, but emotionally you have to be ready for it. Raising a child is really a huge responsibility. And I should have that time and emotional energy to give to child. How and when is a decision my mother and I will take a few years from now.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Time
  • Children
  • Energy

• The Touchables, whether they are vegetarians or flesh-eaters, are united in their objection to eat cow's flesh. As against them stand the Untouchables, who eat cow's flesh without compunction and as a matter of course and habit.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Habit
  • Stand
  • Cow

• We have to tokenize in order to normalize.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Order

• I try to keep a low profile.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Try
  • Low
  • Profile

• I try to play like I did when I was a young boy playing in my garden. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's not so good, but I try to always make sure I give my best to help the team, even if I am not having the best game myself.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Help
  • Game

• There's so many bits on a car these days it's hard to know where everything is. You have a bit of an idea but if you are behind someone and you suddenly change direction it's hard to know exactly where the car is.

  

  Lando Norris
  • Change
  • Everything
  • Direction

• Radio was my lifeline as a kid growing up in Winnipeg in the 1950s. It connected me with the wider world outside our little prairie city.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Up
  • World
  • Growing

• The term 'pashmina' is often used interchangeably with 'cashmere,' but in reality, pashmina is a specific type of very fine, lofty cashmere, woven from a specific type of goat - one indigenous to northern India, Nepal, and Pakistan, and harvested and woven there as well.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Reality
  • India
  • Goat

• I don't see masses, I don't see it like, oh there's hundreds of people here and I'm overwhelmed. I just try to think, well I could be a kid in that crowd, or my daughters could be in that crowd, and no one wants to feel like they're just part of the masses.

  

  Mike Vallely Black Flag
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed.

  

  Sandy Duncan
  • Want
  • Greed
  • Raised