Herbert Kaufman Quotes
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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Queens perhaps perform better in the role of monarch because they never take their position for granted. Many kings have failed because they believed that the public would love them whatever they did. Queens knew better.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
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The Olympics have their own unique atmosphere and energy. People might say it's just the same as any other competition, but don't kid yourself. There's a hunger for victory.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs are.
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For me, to do a reality show is like sending myself to actor's graveyard. I feel like I should wait and create my own projects... do independent movies before I would have to go and do reality shows. Or produce one and come up with one on my own!
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Do we need Medicare reform? Yes we do.
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I don't think I ever really got interested in theater.
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I have American friends in France, and when I meet with them, they tell me about everything that is wrong with France. I think there is a general expat syndrome, which means that whatever country you are in, you are always missing your own country and always thinking that the country you live in is actually not as good as it could be.
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My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
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For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.
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I'm not a big lingerie girl. I see it, and I love it, and I appreciate it, and sometimes I even buy it, and then it never gets worn. It just seems like kind of a wasted middle step. Either you're dressed or you're not. What is this in-between stuff?
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I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs.
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I think Americans are - particularly, independent voters are looking at Washington, and they see too many taxes, too much spending, too much debt, too many Washington takeovers, and they want to provide a check and a balance to what they see as a runaway, overreaching Washington government.
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You can have the best riff in the world, but if the drums behind it just ain't vibing it, it's not gonna be the greatest riff, right? So you've gotta have someone there that can really bring that to life.
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I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never do that. I'm not really human.
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In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.
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After making a movie, maybe you weren't able to shoot many of your ideas, because a movie is only 1 1/2 or two hours long, but TV gives you space to film a lot of things.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.
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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
