Slim Whitman (Ottis Dewey Whitman Jr.) Quotes

The material I did was lasting material. A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything, but I was in the studio. The biggest factor is the material you choose. You hunt, you cut.

Slim Whitman

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• Lasting

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• I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.

  

  Queen Latifah
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• I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.

  

  OMI
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• Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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• Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
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• Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • People
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• We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Believe
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• It's interesting sometimes when an audience can empathize with a villain.

  

  Jack Gleeson
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• I abide by a rule concerning reviews: I will never ask, neither in writing nor in person, that a word be put in about my book.... One feels cleaner this way. When someone asks that his book be reviewed he risks running up against a vulgarity offensive to authorial sensibilities.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Up
  • Writing
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• There were evictions that I saw that I know I'll never forget. In one case, the sheriff and the movers came up on a house full of children. The mom had passed away, and the children had just gone on living there. And the sheriff executed the eviction order - moved the kids' stuff out on the street on a cold, rainy day.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Up
  • Children
  • Kids

• Why stress tomorrow when you can stress today?

  

  Douglas Wilson
  • Why
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• When I was unemployed, I hosted lots of dinner parties. Now I have time to make a pot of soup for the week - if I'm lucky!

  

  Lela Loren
  • Time

• As entrepreneurs, we must constantly dream and have the conviction and obsession to transform our dreams into reality - to create a future that never existed before.

  

  Clara Shih
  • Future
  • Dream
  • Reality

• Of all wonders, this is among the greatest, that some fresh waters close by the sea spring forth as out of pipes: for the nature of the waters also ceaseth not from miraculous properties.

  

  Pliny the Elder
  • Nature
  • Sea
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• I can't be an ingenue forever, and I wouldn't want to be.

  

  Lea Salonga
  • Forever

• I would suggest always getting behind a company that shares your goals, whom you have access to the people who run it and who truly care about the world. This way we steer the ship together and many fears can be let go of.

  

  Liz Parrish
  • People
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• When I became CEO, I just didn't think about my age too much. I'm sure many people did think that my age mattered, but I didn't. That was probably because of my age.

  

  Jochen Zeitz
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• Tight hamstrings are fierce. And I'm guilty of not allocating the time that I should to stretch. I'll put the time in for the runs, but then I go, 'I have to go here. I've got to go there.' Usually, stretching is what gets cut out of the program, but it's so critical.

  

  Bill Rancic
  • Time
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  • Fierce

• I can say, 'Well, I'm a male. I'm a male human. I'm a medical doctor. I'm an author...' If I go to a religious point of view, I will say, 'I am a soul. I am a spirit.' If I go into science, I will say, 'I am energy. I am light.' But the truth is I have no idea what I am.

  

  Don Miguel Ruiz
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  • Science

• As our characters in our 'X-FORCE' began to push at the boundaries of what 'X-FORCE' was, it made perfect story sense for the team to change their name.

  

  Peter Milligan
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  • Perfect

• As a young girl, if you do something funny - especially if you're Jewish - someone says, 'Oh, have you seen Gilda Radner?'

  

  Rachel Bloom
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  • Young

• I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • True
  • Being
  • Often

• I am not trying to make an image; I am an actor trying to sell movies.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Movies
  • Actor
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• The material I did was lasting material. A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything, but I was in the studio. The biggest factor is the material you choose. You hunt, you cut.

  

  Slim Whitman
  • People
  • Choose
  • Biggest