Andrew Aydin Quotes

We were trying to show that you should be hopeful, you should be optimistic, but you have to be consistent and persistent, because it's not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year. It's the struggle of a lifetime. And so you're going to have to put in 40 or 50 years to reach that high-water mark.

Andrew Aydin

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• I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Up
  • Want
  • Law

• There is no doubt that the majority of Kansas Citians are happy with their three-terminal airport. I will advocate in Washington for our city to keep its unique airport as long as we want it.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Long
  • Happy
  • City

• There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Music
  • You
  • Risk

• The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Real
  • Sex
  • Story

• I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.

  

  Randy Travis
  • School
  • Wish
  • I Wish

• Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • May
  • Change
  • Better

• Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Happiness
  • Own
  • Ready

• My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.

  

  Ed Case
  • Marriage
  • Religious
  • Spiritual

• I think there are universal principles that we should want to understand, but that are not necessarily good for us. We could recognise universal propensities which current cultures can't fully eradicate, which we would want to eradicate if we could. Let's say, a tendency for tribal violence. Or racism.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Good
  • Violence
  • Racism

• Before I started writing, I'd never read much fiction. I was more interested in non-fiction. I'm taking the same approach to theatre: I can operate from a position of ignorance and make up my own rules instead of being bound by customs and practice.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Practice

• We have, therefore, directed the Irish Army authorities to have field hospitals established in County Donegal adjacent to Derry and at other points along the Border where they may be necessary.

  

  Jack Lynch
  • May
  • Army
  • Irish

• I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

  

  Saadi
  • God
  • Fear
  • Him

• When I was taken to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, a manuscript of mine ready for publication was confiscated. Certainly, my deep desire to write this manuscript anew helped me to survive the rigors of the camps I was in.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Desire
  • Survive
  • Helped

• Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Men

• I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Time
  • Great

• The world is not such a large place, and we have more in common with one another than we might think.

  

  Donna Langley
  • World

• And though hard be the task, 'Keep a stiff upper lip'.

  

  Phoebe Cary

• I don't think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people really angry. But this is a very political profession in the Grecian sense. I believe there have to be reasons for every building, and that the ideas should not be self-referential.

  

  James Polshek
  • People
  • Believe
  • Art

• I seem to be less depressed but also less hopeful now in my thirties. My widow's peak bothers me. I think a lot about the end of the human race. And so on.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Thinking
  • Race
  • Hopeful

• We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

  

  Socrates
  • Soul
  • Knowledge
  • Desire

• Our police, our hard-working police, that our extraordinarily committed and dedicated military personnel, I'm really pleased that they are getting a good paid parental leave scheme.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Military
  • Police
  • Scheme

• We were trying to show that you should be hopeful, you should be optimistic, but you have to be consistent and persistent, because it's not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year. It's the struggle of a lifetime. And so you're going to have to put in 40 or 50 years to reach that high-water mark.

  

  Andrew Aydin
  • Optimistic
  • Lifetime
  • Hopeful