Norbert Leo Butz Quotes

Something about being surrounded by water has a really calming effect on me.

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• I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Idea

• Real parent engagement means establishing meaningful ways for parents to be partners in their children's public education from the beginning - not just when a school is failing. The goal should be to never let a school get to that point.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Children
  • Real
  • School

• At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • Trying
  • Voice
  • Sound

• But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Football

• I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.

  

  Tanya Roberts
  • Ugly
  • Reached
  • Puberty

• I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you know, is a part of my life.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Life
  • Know
  • My Life

• Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Protect
  • Wants

• I remember my father, when I said I was going down to Little Rock to work for Governor Clinton's run for president, he thought maybe somebody needed to check the medication cabinet. He thought somebody was playing around with it. He had never heard of him, he said. I said, 'Well, I think he's going to be the next President of the United States.'

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Father

• I always think that the exceptional people are those who remain outsiders but still communicate on a grand scale. I think I want everyone to feel more free, and so I feel really claustrophobic on behalf of lots of people.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Want
  • Free

• Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important question to ask yourself is, how long will it take you to break even?

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Important
  • Long
  • Question

• I didn't have a business degree. I didn't have experience to work in somebody else's office. I never built or ran a department. So I was on this journey, and when the time came to make a decision, I was just going with my gut.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Time
  • Work
  • Business

• A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian,Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched,And touched nothing that he did not adorn.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Writing
  • Style

• If there is equality, it is in His love, not in us.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Equality

• But if in vain, down on the stubborn floor Of Earth, and up to Heav'n's unopening Door You gaze To-day, while You are You - how then To-morrow, You when shall be You no more?

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Door

• People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it.

  

  Larry Wall
  • People

• Brainwashed from rock and rap.

  

  Eminem
  • Rock
  • Rap

• But who ever yet was offered a secret and declined it?

  

  Anthony Trollope

• There were, and still are, a lot of different points of view in the gay community. It's not everybody holding hands and singing 'Kumbaya.' People have very different perspectives.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • People
  • Different
  • Community

• The gratification you feel from making tangible progress while running is just about unparalleled, so I understand why people love it. But it's also hard, grueling work. Those feel-good benefits have to be earned four to five times a week.

  

  Chip Gaines
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I went to L.A. to be Brad Pitt; now I just want to be Gene Hackman. I came to Nashville to be Kenny Chesney. I'd be very fortunate to be George Strait.

  

  Christian Kane

• I hardly look at myself in the mirror... I'll only wear makeup if I need to cover something up. But I've recently started caring about my skin. I just turned 60 and was like, 'OK, maybe it's time to start thinking about it.' Before that, I would just splash water on my face, put cream on, and then leave.

  

  Pamela Hanson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• As scientific research demonstrates, llama wool's very coarseness and its range of fibers from fine to thick mean that it can be woven into clothing that's superior to down, fleece, sheep wool, and alpaca wool in criteria ranging from warmth to water resistance to usable life.

  

  David Roberts
  • Life
  • Water

• The Loguidice Fitness Equation: Eating Right + Knowing How to Workout + Consistency = Success

  

  Bill Loguidice
  • Success
  • Workout
  • Fitness

• Something about being surrounded by water has a really calming effect on me.

  

  Norbert Leo Butz
  • Water
  • Effect
  • Calming