J. Frank Dobie Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
-
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
-
No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
-
My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
-
I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.
-
It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.
-
I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
-
If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
-
The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
-
The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
-
With the right kind of financing, I think we can grow by 100 percent per year.
-
The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.
-
When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
-
There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
-
You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.
-
You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
-
I'm good friends with Lee Westwood. Bubba, Rickie Fowler. A few of the top hitters.
-
I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.
-
I know that a creed is the shell of a lie.
-
Looking back, the biggest mistake I made was feeling ashamed of it. Acne is a part of life. You don't need to be embarrassed of it.
-
The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman.
-
It's that invasive and puerile curiosity to feed a tabloid culture. I don't subscribe to it.
-
'I had hoped, as a broadcaster, to be merely ludicrous, but this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought , so eager to believe and snarl and hate. So many people wanted to believe me!'
-
I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.
