Sam Walton Quotes

All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult.

Sam Walton

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• My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Writing
  • She
  • Texas

• I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Great
  • Different
  • Me

• At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Grow
  • Flame

• I'm not the biggest comic book fan.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Book
  • Fan
  • Comic

• When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Character
  • You
  • Look

• I think I need security.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Think
  • Need
  • Security

• The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Women
  • Children
  • School

• I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Want
  • Way
  • Story

• Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Character
  • Life Is A

• I just don't think men fancy me.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Men
  • Think
  • Me

• Rich Swann is probably the only guy who's more charismatic among this whole bunch than me, and I think it showed in our match.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Think
  • Guy
  • Match

• I remember teaching a clinic to other coaches, and a guy raised his hand and asked if I had any advice when it came to coaching women. I leveled him with a death-ray stare, and said, 'Go home and coach basketball.'

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Women
  • Home
  • Remember

• Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Friendship

• Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • People
  • Life
  • True

• 'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • World
  • Today
  • Rest

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Treasure
  • Pirate
  • Island

• I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?'

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • People
  • Good
  • Mind

• I love children, and most of my involvement now has to do with children or youth programs.

  

  David Dinkins
  • Children

• The answer to a lot of your life's questions is often in someone else's face. People's faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous, or asleepTry to keep your mind open to possibilities and your mouth closed on matters that you don't know about. Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers.' Continue to share your heart with people even if it has been broken.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Life
  • Mind

• You know, I wish I wasn't so young when I made some of my movies, because I thought that's what the rest of my life was going to be like and I'd have all the time in the world to enjoy it. It wasn't and I didn't.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• I'm not interested in the TV much. I quit watching the news a couple years ago and my outlook on life has gotten a whole lot better.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Life
  • News
  • Outlook

• All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Life
  • Stupid
  • My Life