Stephen Rodrick Quotes

I was a classic attention deficit disorder kid, always bored and mouthing off at school.

Stephen Rodrick

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• 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
  • Friends
  • Together
  • Trust

• I'm very competitive, and I want to win.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Want
  • Win
  • Competitive

• 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
  • Country
  • Ambassador

• 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.
  • People
  • World
  • 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
  • Work
  • Church
  • Obedience

• When it comes to investing, you are your own worst enemy.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • You
  • Enemy
  • Own

• I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Movies
  • Said
  • Fiction

• Men create the gods in their own image.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Men
  • Create
  • Own

• There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

  

  Karen Black
  • End
  • Gold
  • Rainbow

• 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
  • Time
  • You
  • Write

• 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
  • Important
  • Women
  • Mind

• International sport is a lonely journey. You compete with one's self and try to grow as a cricketer.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Journey
  • Lonely
  • Self

• 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
  • Work
  • Different
  • Together

• 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
  • Future
  • Energy
  • Growth

• I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do.

  

  Christina Romer
  • Financial

• 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
  • World
  • Remember
  • Society

• Learn from the past and let it go. Live in today.

  

  Louise L. Hay
  • Live
  • Today
  • Past

• I'm quite moderate.

  

  Alan Colmes

• A lot of times, you're interacting with people for whom you're one of the very few veterans that they've met or had a lot of interactions with, and there's a temptation for you to feel like you can pontificate about what the experience was or what it meant, and that leads to a lot of nonsense.

  

  Phil Klay
  • People
  • Experience
  • Temptation

• The truth is the best propaganda.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Truth
  • Propaganda

• Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen. You know how bad my voice sounds. Well, it feels just as bad. You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth. That means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Today

• I'm scrappy.

  

  Ashley Wagner

• I was a classic attention deficit disorder kid, always bored and mouthing off at school.

  

  Stephen Rodrick
  • School
  • Attention
  • Kid