Amby Burfoot Quotes

In the longest run of all, your life, you're going to be a winner.

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• For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You
  • Tax
  • Benefit

• Being first lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • World
  • Job
  • First

• Russia and China completely disagree with the international order that was established after World War II, and they're trying to take it apart right before our eyes.

  

  Jack Keane
  • World
  • Trying
  • War

• I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Guy

• It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Opportunity
  • Negative
  • Ridiculous

• A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Movie
  • Fear
  • Know

• Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Nature
  • Spiritual
  • Aesthetic

• Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Business
  • Management
  • Productivity

• I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.'

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Parents
  • Always
  • Actor

• The process of unleashing worms on organic waste such as food scraps and grass clippings is known as 'vermicomposting.' Amateur horticulturists and hippies have been doing it on a small scale for decades.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Small
  • Food
  • Doing

• I love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting around than on the bigger films.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Waiting
  • Films
  • Bigger

• I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • World
  • Know
  • Die

• For every ten jokes, thou hast got a hundred enemies.

  

  Laurence Sterne

• Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication.

  

  Bill Budge

• The Beatles are the most credible band in the history of music.

  

  Ryan Tedder OneRepublic
  • Music
  • History
  • Band

• You know what? I did a lot of things that were deliberate, and they all backfired. I was trying desperately to become Will Ferrell or Adam Sandler, and it did not work for me. I took a lot of leaps that I shouldn't have, traditionally speaking. I paid the price for that. I was not as hire-able for a while. But then I just gave all that up.

  

  Dax Shepard
  • Up
  • Work
  • Trying

• Up until the last minute, it was art and drawing for me. That was the first real and natural thing I thought I was good at and loved to do. But I developed a similar kind of love for music.

  

  James Bay
  • Up
  • Good
  • Music

• Both social engineering and technical attacks played a big part in what I was able to do. It was a hybrid. I used social engineering when it was appropriate, and exploited technical vulnerabilities when it was appropriate.

  

  Kevin Mitnick
  • Engineering

• Sincerity does not only complete the self; it is the means by which all things are completed. As the self is completed, there is human-heartedness; as things are completed, there is wisdom. This is the virtue of one’s character, and the Way of joining the internal and external. Thus, when we use this, everything is correct.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Character
  • Mean
  • Wisdom

• I went into the Verizon store the other day, and the salesman was pretty excited. He was like, 'Hey Dierks, what can I show you?' I said, 'The cheapest, lowest tech phone you have.' I think he was disappointed. Everybody else was running out for the new iPhone 6, but I got a flip phone.

  

  Dierks Bentley
  • Pretty
  • Running

• A perfect run has nothing to do with distance. It's when your stride feels comfortable. You're on your toes trying to push it. Suddenly you realize you can open it up a bit more. You know you're at one with yourself and the environment. You're a little more alive than before you started.

  

  Sean Astin
  • Trying
  • Running
  • Perfect

• I like to go on stage with a variety, with some stuff that's been around for a handful of years, some stuff from the last year, some stuff is from last week, and some stuff is brand spanking new. Those are the moments that excite me - when I'm coming up to a brand new bit. The more virgin the snow, the more fun it is to run on.

  

  Brian Regan
  • Fun
  • Running
  • Moments

• The business model of Linux distribution is broken; it's like the business model of the dotcoms. Running your company on Linux is like running your company on Napster.

  

  Darl McBride
  • Running
  • Company
  • Distribution

• In the longest run of all, your life, you're going to be a winner.

  

  Amby Burfoot
  • Running
  • Winner