Albert Collins (Albert Gene Drewery) Quotes

Don't mistake kindness for weakness, baby.

Albert Collins

• Mistake
• Kindness
• Weakness

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• Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Men
  • Father
  • You

• I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Never
  • Kid
  • Fame

• The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • World
  • Country
  • History

• I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Cool

• I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.

  

  Dan Devine
  • Going
  • Head
  • Coach

• I'd like to say that I'm a rock star, but I'm not - I'm honestly more of a relationship kind of guy. I'm a guy you could take home to meet your mum rather than a guy your mum wouldn't like.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Home
  • Guy
  • Relationship

• I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy.

  

  Eden Sher
  • World
  • Family
  • Learn

• In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Society
  • Worth
  • Tax

• Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Character
  • War
  • Peace

• Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • System
  • Bank
  • Fails

• I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

  

  Carl Barks
  • Never
  • Boy
  • Old

• I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • People
  • Truth
  • Remember

• Being positive may be a character defect of mine.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • May
  • Character
  • Positive

• When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Great
  • Team
  • Search

• To have a part that is written for you certainly helps an actor.

  

  A. J. Bowen
  • You
  • Actor
  • Certainly

• Basically I hate categorical labels. As a young artist I already was very clear about this - that 'objectification' is not the final aim of art. For there are greater things than the object. The greatest thing is the human mind.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Hate

• A dagger has only a single point, but a traitor cuts from anywhere.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Single

• Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great).

  

  Frederik Pohl
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Science

• I pray for my nation, South Africa. As Jesus stood in the boat and commanded the storms to be calm, I stand in the midst of the storm in my nation, South Africa and I command the storm, wind and waves to be calm, in the name of Jesus! I speak calmness to my nation, South Africa, in the name of Jesus!

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Jesus
  • Wind
  • Calm

• I have a strong and strange character, and I've rarely met directors who knew what to do with this character. One of the few who did was my father, and in the theatre, Arthur Nauzyciel.

  

  Lou Doillon
  • Character
  • Father
  • Strong

• In almost every photograph I have ever made, there is something I would do to complete it. I take that to be the spirit hole or the deliberate mistake that's in a Navajo rug to not be godlike, but to be human.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Mistake
  • Human
  • Almost

• The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Mistake
  • Arms
  • Teaches

• It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.

  

  Sara Blakely
  • Important
  • Mistake
  • Worst

• Don't mistake kindness for weakness, baby.

  

  Albert Collins
  • Mistake
  • Kindness
  • Weakness