Mike Ditka Quotes

I don't believe in living in the past. Living in the past is for cowards. If you live in the past, you die in the past.

Mike Ditka

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• At my core, I know that the American Dream is about the opportunity to work hard to make your future.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Work
  • American
  • Future

• I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Work
  • Force
  • Directors

• I'm very wary of news on television.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Television
  • Very
  • News

• If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Want
  • Food
  • Three

• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • You
  • Waiting

• Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • World
  • News
  • White

• You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • You
  • Opinions
  • Democrats

• I hope to do big action movies and strong dramas, and to produce films. I also want to get kids more involved in what's going on in the world and to be politically active.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • World
  • Kids
  • Hope

• We're headed towards a fascist economy in which you have big government, big corporations and big labor, and they're all in cahoots to strangle the entrepreneur.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Government
  • Entrepreneur

• We must differentiate between guilt and duty. The soldier on the front, like the common man, who does his duty everywhere, should not be held responsible for the actions of a few who also called themselves Germans.

  

  Oskar Schindler
  • Man
  • Soldier
  • Guilt

• I started my career with 'Refugee' in Bhuj. Now, it has become a full-fledged city.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Career
  • City
  • Now

• Rajneeshism is creating a Noah's Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle of the cyclone. You can only escape within, and that's what I teach. I do not teach worship of God or any other ritual but only a scientific way of coming to your innermost core.

  

  Rajneesh
  • God
  • Creating
  • Escape

• God is decisively drawn to the humble.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • God
  • Humble
  • Drawn

• Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Want
  • Imagination
  • Nothing

• It's hard to mix with a crowd when you're walking down the hallway and everybody else is a foot shorter. I remember hanging out with my friends, like at the mall, and thinking people were staring at me and talking about me. It made me turn inside myself. I became more shy and quiet.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Friends

• I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Parent
  • Losing

• Women need to know that not all guys are going to hurt them the way that the guy did before they started dating me. I know guys I wouldn't go out with.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Women
  • Guy
  • Hurt

• And it's a lot harder to hide with four musicians than it is with eight.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Musicians
  • Harder
  • Hide

• The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Life
  • Die
  • Body

• I think the big thing I've had going for me in that regard has been the success of the league. I don't have quite as much control over things as people believe, so I frequently receive more credit than I deserve, and occasionally more criticism as well.

  

  Pete Rozelle
  • People
  • Believe
  • Success

• (About the battle of Kunersdorf) 'I shall not survive this cruel misfortune. The consequences will be worse than defeat itself. I have no resources left, and, to speak quite frankly I believe everything is lost. I shall not outlive the downfall of my country. Farewell, forever!'

  

  Frederick the Great
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Lost

• I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it.

  

  Vince Clarke Depeche Mode
  • Long
  • Fast
  • Programming

• I've always believed that the things middle class families struggle with around their kitchen tables should define my work in Washington.

  

  Gary Peters
  • Work
  • Struggle
  • Kitchen

• I don't believe in living in the past. Living in the past is for cowards. If you live in the past, you die in the past.

  

  Mike Ditka
  • Believe
  • Living
  • Dies