Albert F. Pratt Quotes

The Navy is much more than a job; much more than service to country. It is a way of life. It gets in your blood.

Albert F. Pratt

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• I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Me
  • Kind
  • Person

• The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Mother
  • Like
  • Public

• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Me
  • Crazy
  • Makes

• I think we can launch - successfully, high quality - around 20 original scripted shows a year, which means every 2 1/2 to three weeks you're launching a new season or a new show on Netflix meant to be for really diverse tastes all around the world.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • World
  • High
  • Quality

• I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Experience
  • Poetry
  • Speak

• I'm pretty hard on myself in general.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Pretty
  • Myself
  • Hard

• The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Experience

• I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Like
  • Private
  • Meddle

• If you leave me waiting 'round for hours and then call on me to do something, I need to be able to do it straight away. That's my job, like your job is to do what you do.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Job
  • Me
  • Waiting

• The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Acting
  • Part
  • Hardest

• We will see the presence of angels and we will see an intensification of miracles around the world.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • World
  • Angels
  • Miracles

• If we could, we'd change a lot of things. But the only thing that's going to really change things is money and time. And time might just make it worse, too.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Time
  • Money
  • Change

• Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • You
  • Respect
  • Yourself

• One way to organize your thoughts is to tidy up, even if it's in places where it makes no sense at all.

  

  Ursus Wehrli
  • Up
  • Way
  • Thoughts

• Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Up
  • Something
  • Script

• In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their resources; we are also denying the world the example of a free society enjoying its freedom to the fullest.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • People
  • World
  • Society

• Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Time
  • God
  • Business

• America has the highest standard of living of any major country in the entire world. To maintain and enhance that standard of living, America should continue to embrace those qualities which have made America great: openness and dynamism. Openness to new technologies, new ideas and new people is America's greatest source of strength.

  

  Alex Tabarrok
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• Jack was mid-jump when I burst into my room. I snatched his ankle,flipping him horizontal.He crashed down hard to my bed and rolled off onto the floor. And laughed. "Let's do that again! But this time I'll jump even higher." "No! No,you won't! What are you going here?" He sat up on the floor and shrugged. "I was bored." "I don't care! I'm not your babysitter!" His blue eyes twinkled.Honestly, whose eyes actually twinkle? Then his face crumpled,his lower lip jutting out.He blinked his ridiculously long eyelashes at me. "I thought we were friends." "Oh,knock it off.

  

  Kiersten White
  • Long
  • Eyes
  • Care

• In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.

  

  Kevin Gates
  • Believe
  • Song
  • Rap

• If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is. You might never find out that you are useful for all the right reasons - and not all those stupid things that people tell you you're useful for.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • People
  • World
  • Reason

• That's what I think a journalist from the '70s and '80s should look like - as though he has led a full journalistic life.

  

  Bradley Walsh
  • Life

• The Navy is much more than a job; much more than service to country. It is a way of life. It gets in your blood.

  

  Albert F. Pratt
  • Life
  • Blood
  • Navy