E. Merrill Root Quotes

Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing - and does it well

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• So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • People
  • Time
  • Business

• The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Kids
  • Problem
  • Youth

• At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.

  

  Garry Disher
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Award

• Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Culture
  • You
  • Conservative

• 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.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Writing
  • Way
  • Like

• The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Long
  • Knowledge
  • Search

• I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Man
  • Me
  • Military

• My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Sister

• I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.

  

  Jackie Jackson The Jacksons
  • Changed
  • Little
  • Michael

• I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Friends
  • Best
  • Writers

• If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Help
  • You
  • Guidance

• The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • People
  • Truth
  • American

• I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Family
  • Proud
  • Being

• Sometimes my quotes may be too colorful.

  

  Earl Butz
  • May
  • Sometimes
  • Colorful

• You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Great
  • Important
  • Fun

• I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Comedy
  • Pain
  • Film

• Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Company
  • Year
  • Retail

• I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Time
  • Long
  • Want

• Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Bad
  • Trust
  • Animal

• I'm a product of my environment.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Environment
  • Product

• Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Children
  • Society
  • Sufferings

• I don't like to be feared, and I can't work in conflict, I'm very bad with conflict. I try to avoid it, it paralyzes me.

  

  Nadine Labaki
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Me

• Don’t wait for things to be perfect before you share them with others. Show early and show often. It’ll be pretty when we get there, but it won’t be pretty along the way.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Way
  • Share
  • Wait

• Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing - and does it well

  

  E. Merrill Root
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Positive