Stephen Rodrick Quotes
I was a classic attention deficit disorder kid, always bored and mouthing off at school.
Stephen Rodrick
Quotes to Explore
-
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
H. L. Mencken
-
I'm very competitive, and I want to win.
Camilo Villegas
-
In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers.
Gail Sheehy
-
The way that people have gotten on board with me is the most encouraging thing in the world, but it's all very connected to the 14 years I've been on tour with Steel Train, even my band before that, Outline, and then fun. and now Bleachers.
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
-
Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.
B. F. Skinner
-
When it comes to investing, you are your own worst enemy.
Barry Ritholtz
-
I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.
Quentin Tarantino
-
Men create the gods in their own image.
Xenophanes
-
There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
Karen Black
-
Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don't have, physically, a person who is that, you are always going to be a little off.
Zoe Saldana
-
For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.
Gary Neville
-
I've worked in public education for 30 years - as a teacher, a lawyer and union leader. I've visited hundreds of schools and districts. I've seen leaders from the classroom to the national stage who have been willing to set aside their differences and do the hard work that's necessary to create real, enduring change.
Randi Weingarten
-
International sport is a lonely journey. You compete with one's self and try to grow as a cricketer.
Harbhajan Singh
-
We see young leaders who embrace the diversity of this region not as a weakness, but as a strength, and who realize that even though we are all individually different and come from different traditions and different communities, we're stronger when we work together.
Barack Obama
-
Fortunately, as we all know, it's impossible for anybody but Jimmy Smith to really sound like Jimmy Smith.
Benmont Tench
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
-
Japan is a model already to the lie that economic growth is the key to our future. If they can really show an alternative to nukes and fossil fuels, then they will be the poster boy for the renewable energy for the future.
David Suzuki
-
I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do.
Christina Romer
-
You must remember, my own philosophy is that you don't belong only to yourself. You have an obligation to the society which protected you when you were brought into the world, which taught you, which supported you and nurtured you. You have an obligation to repay it.
Jacob K. Javits
-
Learn from the past and let it go. Live in today.
Louise L. Hay
-
Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.
Yotam Ottolenghi
-
I grew up hearing that if it hadn't been for Ataturk, my grandmother would have been 'a covered person' who would have been reliant on a man for her livelihood. Instead, she went to boarding school, wrote a thesis on Balzac, and became a teacher.
Elif Batuman
-
I was the first woman to win a Tony for directing, but the second woman came along five minutes later.
Garry Hynes
-
Even to me, as I was trying to tell the government what had happened, it just didn't seem to matter.
Patty Hearst
-
I was a classic attention deficit disorder kid, always bored and mouthing off at school.
Stephen Rodrick
