Alan Sparhawk Quotes

Most people don't know what it's like to be poor, and to live in poverty. To live in a situation where everything around you - every opportunity is shut. You don't have anyone showing you how to rise above, you don't have any resources, and everyone around you is losing that battle too, then yeah, you want something that you have control over that makes you feel like you're running your brain for a minute.

Alan Sparhawk

• Opportunity
• Control
• Poor

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• We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Give
  • Take
  • Noble

• It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Trying
  • Power

• Sometimes my quotes may be too colorful.

  

  Earl Butz
  • May
  • Sometimes
  • Colorful

• Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Important

• Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Sometimes
  • Need
  • Relax

• What I would like to be remembered for is that Walter Washington changed the spirit of the people of this city, that he came in as mayor when there was hate and greed and misunderstanding among our people and the races were polarized.

  

  Walter Washington
  • People
  • Hate
  • City

• I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • People
  • Long
  • Woman

• In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Discipline
  • Hard Work

• The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Progress
  • Personality
  • Sacrifice

• I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Good
  • Work
  • Pretty

• Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Nature
  • Patience
  • Trees

• It is very hard for me to switch from clay to grass.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Me
  • Grass
  • Clay

• The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Great
  • Hunting
  • Duck

• Scrawling 'I'm gay' in lipstick on your parents' bedroom mirror may demonstrate a personal signature of the highest style, but is not particularly sensitive to their feelings. Upon hearing me utter those words almost twenty years ago, my own mother did what and self-respecting middle-class mom would do: went directly into a seizure.

  

  Lance Loud
  • May
  • Mother
  • Parents

• Palestinians have had to live for a long time with the fact that Israelis had power over them in their everyday lives.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Time
  • Long
  • Live

• Spring is here my friends and a new chapter begins.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Friends
  • Spring
  • New

• So that's life, then: things are they are? It picks its way on the blue guitar. A million people on one string? And all their manner in the thing, And all their manner, right and wrong, And all their manner, weak and strong? And that's life, then: things as they are, This buzzing of the blue guitar.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • People
  • Life
  • Strong

• The fact that everything ever works perfectly together, anybody who tells you that is pulling your leg.

  

  Mark V. Hurd
  • Together

• The supernatural can be very annoying until one finds the key that transforms it into science," he observed mildly... "Come on, Ox, let's go out and get killed.

  

  Barry Hughart
  • Annoying
  • Keys

• I've got the public. I don't care about the critics. I did at one time. I don't any more. I did when I needed compliments. But if you get a lot of compliments, you don't need a critic to tell you, 'This should be done another way.'

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • Time
  • Done

• Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Life
  • Control
  • My Life

• Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

  

  Lucille Ball
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Luck

• Most people don't know what it's like to be poor, and to live in poverty. To live in a situation where everything around you - every opportunity is shut. You don't have anyone showing you how to rise above, you don't have any resources, and everyone around you is losing that battle too, then yeah, you want something that you have control over that makes you feel like you're running your brain for a minute.

  

  Alan Sparhawk
  • Opportunity
  • Control
  • Poor