Daniel Gilbert Quotes
I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.Daniel Gilbert
Quotes to Explore
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I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.
Jackson Browne -
We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
Zoltan Kodaly -
I want someone who will love me for the person I am and not because of my status. It has to be someone who understands the pressure of playing for India. It will be very difficult to be with a person who has her own career because someone has to make sacrifices for the family and house.
Yuvraj Singh -
An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.
Ice T -
I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
Haley Bennett -
I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.
Zack Greinke
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The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.
Patricia Clarkson -
He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
Orison Swett Marden -
I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
Halle Berry -
Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
Adam D'Angelo -
I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.
Edie Falco -
People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
Upamanyu Chatterjee
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
Zach Johnson The Fray -
I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.
Kara Walker -
Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
Laraine Day -
I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.
Octavio Paz -
We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
Ted Engstrom
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Revenge is the sweetest morsel to the mouth, that ever was cooked in hell.
Walter Scott -
I remember having a conversation with my sister, saying, 'What if I don't make it? What if I'm still waiting tables when I'm 35?' I was just at the end of my rope. But I've been at the end of that rope several times.
Chelsea Handler -
My mother was an unbeliever - and still is. My father was a nominal Catholic. We would go in to church at the last minute before the gospel reading, take Communion, and walk right out again.
Frederica Mathewes-Green -
I just be comfortable in my own skin, I might wear anything.
2 Chainz -
Americans want to be protected, but not at the cost of vitiating the values that make us Americans.
Maureen Dowd -
I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.
Daniel Gilbert