Satchel Paige Quotes

With women you don't have to talk your head off. You just say a word and let them fill in from there.

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• Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.

  

  Larry Elder
  • People
  • Work
  • Profit

• For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Mind
  • Party

• My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Friend
  • Boy
  • Thought

• The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye's stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else? That's reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. That's reminiscent of the Beatles.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Rock
  • Better

• I keep going to New York every year for 20 to 25 days. I love it there, but I can't imagine settling in any place other than India.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Love
  • New York
  • Keep Going

• It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Up
  • Good
  • Couple

• Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Enthusiasm

• My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Parents
  • Amazing
  • Best

• In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Women
  • Leadership
  • Voices

• I definitely want my fans to know that I'm here to stay, and I'm going to continue to give them hot music.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Music
  • Want
  • Know

• What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Music
  • American
  • Kind

• Every show is unique; some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that's just the way they do things. It's like high school. Some people write their papers the second they get their assignments, and some people write it the day after it's due.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • School
  • High

• Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Run

• I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before 'Mad Men.'

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Men
  • Never
  • Mad

• It's much easier for me to do an impression of someone real, because you and the audience begin with a baseline understanding of this person's life. And then if you subvert that in any way, it's a little comedy surprise.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Life
  • Understanding
  • Person

• Before we come to a challenging situation, before the universe squeezes us, how much of our effort is geared toward the reason we came to this world? The more focus we have on the front end, the less focus we end up needing on the back end.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Up
  • World
  • Universe

• All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Knowledge
  • Human
  • Form

• So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • War
  • House
  • Decision

• It takes thousands of them to create an archive of human wisdom; only one to set a torch to it. Wouldn’t you have to say, then, that the work of the librarians is more typical of mortal behavior than the work of the arsonist?

  

  Kage Baker
  • Work
  • Wisdom

• Kids, adults, men, women, everybody has a relationship with Mickey Mouse.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Men
  • Women
  • Kids

• We must unite. Violence against women cannot be tolerated, in any form, in any context, in any circumstance, by any political leader or by any government.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Women
  • Political
  • Violence

• With women you don't have to talk your head off. You just say a word and let them fill in from there.

  

  Satchel Paige
  • Women