William Goldman Quotes
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
Sam Brownback -
I've been through plenty in my life where I've really had to focus on the day ahead... because, as I know, the future is, you know, whatever the future is... Once you've stared mortality that hard in the face, you really seize the day.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.
Ice Cube -
People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
E. M. Forster -
Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
Fernando Botero -
Life is about timing.
Carl Lewis
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
Florence Scovel Shinn -
We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.
Ha-Joon Chang -
'The Unity Band' project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.
Pat Metheny -
I can't give a decent toast to save my life.
Sam Trammell -
He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
Iris Murdoch -
A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
B. F. Skinner
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Not all of us are chameleons that can do every different thing. I hope I'm going to be typecast. I will play the girl next door for the rest of my life if I have to. I always kind of feel like I have that in my pocket when I go in a room.
Kaley Cuoco -
My most firmly held value is what Albert Schweitzer termed 'reverence for life.' I take this seriously; many would say that because I extend it to nonhumans, I take it too far.
Victoria Moran -
The best thing anyone can do in life is to give opportunities to a child.
Victor Ponta -
You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.
Bai Ling -
Where there is love there is life.
Mahatma Gandhi -
A certain desperation is usually necessary before we're ready for God... Until your knees finally hit the floor, you're just playing at life, and on some level you're scared because you know you're just playing. The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins.
Marianne Williamson
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The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.
Barry Ritholtz -
Basically, I see myself as a maker of things who knows how to support other makers of things. At the end of the day, I am just committed to helping put good stories out into the world in whatever role is appropriate and needed for that particular project.
Mark Kassen -
It's interesting too, that the coach of that Georgia Tech team who led his valiant warriors to those 222 points was none other than John Heisman. Yes, he whom the Heisman trophy is named for, an award that honors that college player who best exemplifies excellence and integrity.
Frank Deford -
What I learned from boxing and what everyone can take in real life is to follow directions, follow order. Don't give nobody a hard time.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
William Goldman