Misty May-Treanor Quotes

My dad would tell me to, 'Play for those who couldn't play.' So my motivation is for people who struggle in life daily.

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• All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • World
  • Education
  • Best

• I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • School
  • Kid
  • Fact

• I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Night
  • Singing
  • Smoking

• I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Children
  • Aim
  • Consistency

• The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Community
  • Intelligence

• The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • People
  • Think
  • Choice

• You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Believe
  • Feet
  • Believe In Yourself

• I remember auditioning for the Wonder Woman television show and being told that I wasn't the Wonder Woman type, but if I wanted to play the best friend, I could audition for that.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Remember
  • Friend
  • Best

• In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Bad
  • Responsibility
  • Admit

• As far as the creative side of making great, great albums and really trying to go down in history? I don't see that happening lately, you know what I mean? You have a lot of guys is talented, but at the same time, timeless music is more important to me.

  

  Raekwon
  • Time
  • Great
  • Music

• I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

  

  Carl Rakosi
  • Work
  • Love
  • Poet

• But I think primarily, it's the fans that make this race.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Think
  • Fans
  • Race

• Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectifications of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • May
  • Hope
  • Past

• I don't really think in career terms.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Career

• Arsenal are a special club for many French supporters. I watched them a lot, especially during the 'Invincible' era when they had Thierry Henry, Patrick Vieira, Sylvain Wiltord, and Robert Pires.

  

  Dimitri Payet

• Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that.

  

  Donald Norman
  • Learning
  • Text

• Whatever I ended up picking or choosing was always going to be a creative outlet for me.

  

  Freya Tingley
  • Up

• James Finch is exactly what I'm looking for, as far as getting back into the race car to have fun.

  

  Kurt Busch
  • Fun
  • Car

• Beloved, I sought you here and there, asked for news of you from all I met; then saw you through myself and found we were identical. Now I blush to think I ever searched for signs of you.

  

  Fakhr-al-Din Iraqi
  • News
  • Beloved
  • Identical

• I'm definitely trying to make songs that people can sing along to and remember. If you can recognize a chorus and leave with it in your head, it's usually a good sign. But then with the verses, I can get a little more free form. I don't really like to copy and paste things.

  

  Jillian Hervey
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them.

  

  Sidney Blumenthal
  • People
  • Yourself
  • Stand

• My take on rap is driven by straightforward American southern rock and blues.

  

  Robert James Ritchi
  • American
  • Rock
  • Rap

• I didn't have a choice growing up but to be more insecure because others had more.

  

  Shania Twain
  • Up
  • Growing

• My dad would tell me to, 'Play for those who couldn't play.' So my motivation is for people who struggle in life daily.

  

  Misty May-Treanor
  • People
  • Struggle
  • motivation