Hal Elrod Quotes

Anything you want for your life, if someone else has done, become, or achieved it, use that as evidence that so can you.

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• To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Funny

• All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Life
  • Woman
  • Win

• Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

  

  Pat Barker
  • World
  • War
  • First

• What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Responsibility
  • Greed

• Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Teenager
  • Go
  • Through

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.

  

  B. B. King
  • Play
  • Church
  • Taught

• The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Culture
  • Change
  • Progress

• I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Real
  • Age
  • Want

• Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Business
  • Career
  • Tennis

• You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• I did not enter the industry to create a certain image. People happened to see me as the friend/sister/daughter next door. I like that association very much. It's close to what I am in real life. As for films, I just focus on the job.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• I'm engaged to Hollywood. If there's something I find I have to do, I'll do it. Otherwise, I'll just stay home and have a vacation.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Home
  • Find
  • Vacation

• I'm lucky because I had blonde hair for a while for this TV show I was doing – they had me dye my hair blonde – and every audition I was going out for was bleach blonde. The mean girl, the pretty girlfriend, and the dumb cheerleader.

  

  Haley Lu Richardson
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • Mean

• This experience actually means the very opposite: the largest military power was unable to stop such a sensitive attack and will be unable to rule out such a possibility in the future. Precisely this is the background to the United States' military interventions.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Experience
  • Power
  • Future

• To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Great
  • You
  • Player

• I've never really had the opportunity to play something that's a complete departure from me yet.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Opportunity
  • Me
  • Never

• When I'm not training day in and day out I love to go out and dance, even though it is potentially in my contract that I'm not allowed to do that.

  

  Taylor Phinney
  • Dance
  • Training
  • Contract

• There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know well that I have it in me to make my name famous. No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done. And what is the result? There is no crime to detect, or, at most, some bungling villainy with a motive so transparent that even a Scotland Yard official can see through it.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Profession
  • Brains
  • Crimes

• Never hold up your entire group of friends in real life trying to capture a perfect Instagram pose. Nobody cares.

  

  Mary H.K. Choi
  • Life
  • Up
  • Real

• I really love doing simple things. I'm surrounded by people all the time at work, so I want to have a normal life when I'm off duty: motherhood, food, and love!

  

  Bianca Balti
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

  

  James Thurber
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Simple

• Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.

  

  E. B. White
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Mind

• Anything you want for your life, if someone else has done, become, or achieved it, use that as evidence that so can you.

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Life
  • Done
  • Use