Mickey Rivers Quotes
I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there's no sense in getting upset. And I don't get upset over things I can't control, because if I can't control them there's no sense in getting upset.
Quotes to Explore
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I can be more cold than people would like me to be.
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If you've been in a film that's seen by millions and millions and millions of people, you're more likely to be recognized for that than for your theater performances, which were seen by considerably less people. Why would I get upset by that?
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The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.
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I love a woman who can out-eat me.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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People love to drop in 'you betcha' as often as they can.
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I love to put on diamonds and beautiful evening gowns and make my girl-friends upset.
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A pun calls the meaning of a word into question, and it upsets us tremendously. We laugh because suddenly we find out we're not going to get killed. I think a lot of things work that way with photographs.
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She loved all her children. If they were upset, she was upset about them. She would buy dolls for the girls and footballs for the boys. She even made them trophies.
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I can believe anything as long as it is incredible.
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My mom and her parents had to leave because her brother had left a couple of years before and the government was really upset. They took away both my grandparents' jobs, so they couldn't make a living. They had to sell all their things. They weren't allowed to take more than $500 out of the country.
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It's going to be like starting over. Like the short didn't really count. Back to square one. It's kind of like the old system. Anybody in the top three can win.
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They were very close to the upset, but then we struck back.
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In fashion, you know you have succeeded when there is an element of upset.
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I used to get upset by people not understanding me, but I’ve made a career out of it now.
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I'm just upset that we've been distracted by so much noise and vulgarity when we could be trying to talk about how our country can get stronger.
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Life is very, very short, and you can choose to live it how you want. You can choose to dumb yourself down and not express yourself just so you can fit in, just so people won't dislike you.
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Focus on what you can do rather than stress about what you have no control over.
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Imagine wasting all that perfectly good anger on paranoid fantasies. Not since Emily Litella got upset about "Soviet jewelry" has there been such a waste of anger. You will notice a certain theme to these Emily Litella Moments. Behind them all is a touching faith that someone, somewhere is actually in charge of what's happening - a proposition I beg leave to doubt.
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When you're a little kid, you want the ball. You don't want to play defense. When you get the ball, basically you can do whatever you want.
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They say don't believe your own hype, but if you don't why would anyone else? To be great you have to believe you can do great things.
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The flakier your mission, the fiercer you have to be on the business side.
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I've never felt scared of flight, ever. It's really weird. I don't know. They stick a gin and tonic in your hands and I just think, "Life is good!"
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I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there's no sense in getting upset. And I don't get upset over things I can't control, because if I can't control them there's no sense in getting upset.
