William Carey Quotes

I'm not afraid of failure; I'm afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.

William Carey

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• 'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • World
  • Important
  • Decision

• Chicken and horse meat are the best foods for weightlifters, and good food is important.

  

  Ilya Ilyin
  • Good
  • Important
  • Food

• Boys are like puppies, but the thing I find terrifying is how do you steer them?

  

  Talulah Riley
  • You
  • Like
  • Find

• Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Architecture
  • Republican

• People make mistakes. They say stupid things.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Mistakes

• People fight today for the same fundamental reasons the Greek historian Thucydides identified nearly 2,500 years ago: fear, honor, and interest.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • People
  • Today
  • Fear

• It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Air
  • Down
  • Windows

• I am that weirdo that chooses the difficult route down the side of the street.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Street
  • Route
  • Weirdo

• The idea of having a house, a kid, a husband, and a dog... I love that. I also really want to open a coffee and flower shop one day, probably in Italy.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Husband
  • Idea
  • Kid

• Bling is good.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Good

• I got nominated for a Tony in my Broadway debut, which was fascinating and thrilling and sort of unbelievable all at the same time.

  

  Pablo Schreiber
  • Time
  • Same
  • Broadway

• If you try to break into my house, you will be severely lacerated and possibly electrocuted, and I'm fine with that. Because if you're breaking into my house, you're on your own.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • House
  • You
  • Try

• I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • City
  • Summer
  • Spring

• I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.

  

  Kate Flannery
  • People
  • Women
  • Funny

• I'm focused on being the best, making history.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • History
  • Best
  • Being

• People say that globalisation has negative aspects, but I don't believe globalisation is bad. It's criticised from a western perspective, but if you put yourself in the shoes of people in the developing world, it provides an unprecedented opportunity.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Good
  • Work
  • Chance

• There are many names to Allah plus one you don't know. And each name is an attribute that flexes his characteristics: the Benevolent, the Merciful, the All-Knower... And to me, my names be flexin' personalities of myself: Prince Rakeem, Bobby Digital, Bobby Steels, the RZA, the Rzarector... These are personalities of myself.

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • Personality
  • Digital
  • Characteristics

• My skin still crawls if you call me a movie star. I get embarrassed. I think, don't be ridiculous. Maybe it's because I'm British. To me, Julia Roberts that's a movie star. But when people do call me one, that, I think, is an enormous compliment but, my God, is that a responsibility!

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Responsibility
  • Ridiculous
  • Compliment

• No black man wants a blue-eyed black child, and no white man wants a kinky-haired white child. Nature didn't mean it to be that way.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Child
  • Wants
  • Black Man

• I was much more afraid in Montgomery when I had a gun in my house. When I decided that I couldn’t keep a gun, I came face-to-face with the question of death and I dealt with it. From that point on, I no longer needed a gun nor have I been afraid. Had we become distracted by the question of my safety we would have lost the moral offensive and sunk to the level of our oppressors.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Death
  • Question
  • Safety

• I'm not afraid of failure; I'm afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.

  

  William Carey
  • Afraid
  • Succeed