Michael Corbat Quotes
If football had always been my main goal then I would have gone to some scholarship school; I could have gotten more exposure there.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm a showgirl. After 20 years in show business, I've learned to roll with the punches.
-
I don't look at myself as suffering.
-
Too many companies think they want to do a video blog to sell merchandise, but if you turn your site into QVC, you lose. I have an audience that trusts me. It's about building a global brand - not selling four more bottles of Pinot Grigio.
-
The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.
-
Fly-fishing is really addictive.
-
Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
-
Listen, you make a big movie, you're going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs up or the thumbs down. And that's part of the game. It's part of the fun as well.
-
I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All three times I have had to toil my way into the Olympics. Talking about pressure, well that is something you have to learn to deal with in sports.
-
I really like the old stuff that I cut my musical teeth on, and I loved it when the industry was just like that, without really a genre. Today, country radio's more aimed at a demographic than a genre. It just softens everything.
-
A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.
-
I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.
-
I'm not a director who feels I should be in your face all the time. I really want you to watch the actors and listen to the play.
-
How can you regret helping a suffering patient?
-
With acting, I always feel conscious of what I'm doing.
-
When suspicion and hostility is allowed to fester, it can erupt into unrest.
-
A savage review is much more entertaining for the reader than an admiring one; the little misanthrope in each of us relishes the rubbishing of someone else.
-
It is not enough to want to get rid of one’s sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves us from our sins.
-
You're going to hurt, yes. You're going to have tweaks and problems. But you're a football player; you can play through those.
-
I'm interested in authentic experience and the essence of that creative place, and where those myths begin and where they become real on any level.
-
You can get all A's and still flunk life.
-
The day I was born, my house burnt down; the day I left home, the Twin Towers burnt down; and I lived in a jungle in India at 15.
-
If football had always been my main goal then I would have gone to some scholarship school; I could have gotten more exposure there.
