Odell Shepard Quotes

For what I give, not what I take,

Odell Shepard

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• I always watch the work I do.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Work
  • Always
  • Watch

• I'm a huge gamer. I play a lot of games, and I play one game until I'm really, really good at it.

  

  Osric Chau
  • Good
  • Game
  • Play

• I had no trouble going from radio to TV - I just thought of TV as radio with pictures.

  

  Larry King
  • Thought
  • Trouble
  • Radio

• I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Monster

• People are clamoring to hear good ideas as opposed to the lesser of two evils... Either the Democrats are going to win or the Republicans are going to win, but the losers are all of us out here as citizens that really do want meaningful change, and none of it's happening. There's no dialogue regarding meaningful change.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Good
  • Change

• I try to invest smart. I'm not a baller. I'm not a blinger.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Smart
  • Try
  • Invest

• Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Day

• I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Music
  • Father
  • Roots

• When I look back, I can say that the summer when I was 19 was a formative time for me. But at the time I just thought I was making tofu every night for dinner and going to work.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Night

• A major celebrity is a major brand, and major brands pick very critically what other brands they're going to associate with. So an A-list celebrity usually picks an A-list brand.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Celebrity
  • Going
  • Brand

• We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • Mystery
  • Atom
  • Sermon

• I was imagining a long life of being a stone cold loser. Then I got a job, which was really nice, then I got a great agent, a great manager, which was really nice. I was doing a lot of set ups, and, you know, I got to start working in L.A.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Life
  • Great
  • Long

• There's two systems of health care: the one for the rich that's really good, then there's the one for the inner city, where they leave ladies in the emergency room unattended for 24 hours until they drop dead.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Good
  • City
  • Health

• We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • True
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Nature
  • Price
  • Cheated

• I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Write
  • Situation

• I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

  

  Eden Phillpotts
  • God
  • Done
  • Why

• Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Art
  • Painting
  • Chaos

• We write and write and write until we think, 'If we have to shoot this script, we'll be happy, and it's going to be a great movie.' I meet with all the actors two weeks before, and I ask them, 'What lines don't work? What is uncomfortable for you? What jokes do you think aren't good? If you're not getting it, here's what the joke is.' You fix it.

  

  Jay Chandrasekhar
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• You make sure you cover all the things we did poorly. Sometimes in a win like that, you have a tendency to say we played great, but you miss a lot of things that we did poorly. Penalties were definitely a problem. We turned the ball over. ... We've been riding a ragged edge. That's not good football. We've got to fix it. We've got to look at it as a great win, but there's things we need to improve upon.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Good
  • Great
  • Football

• My wife's an Australian and a very competitive lady, and she wants to sail in Sydney-Hobart. I say, 'We have the boat, do as you wish.' I'll let her run the show.

  

  James H. Clark
  • She
  • Wish
  • Wife

• When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Moving
  • Wasted
  • Interruptes

• For what I give, not what I take,

  

  Odell Shepard