Tony Dorsett Quotes

I'm a strong believer that you practice like you play, little things make big things happen.

Tony Dorsett

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• I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!

  

  Ildar Abdrazakov
  • Friends
  • Like
  • Soccer

• The more of what our music does violates the premise of its format that it's presented in, the better. So, hearing our music in the supermarket, a Muzak version, is great.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Great
  • Music
  • Better

• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Alone
  • Space
  • Creative

• There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Life
  • Real
  • Violence

• My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Parents
  • Brother
  • Lawyer

• It's easy: if you want to grow the economy, encourage job creation, and increase federal revenue, you support making bonus depreciation permanent. Permanency gives job creators the certainty they need to plan and invest in their businesses, including hiring employees.

  

  Pat Tiberi
  • Job
  • Support
  • Plan

• You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.

  

  Adam Beach
  • You
  • Doing
  • Nation

• I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Optimist

• America gives every appearance of being a nation besotted with trashiness - divorce, illegitimacy, casual Fridays.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • Divorce
  • Appearance

• Yashpal, writing in the nineteen-fifties, sought to indict this culture of men, Hindus and Muslims alike, who value their freedom and power over the rights and lives of women.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Women

• I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Work
  • Stand
  • Human Rights

• Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high - some say excessively high - fees; their short- and long-term performance has been poor.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Long
  • Done
  • High

• The endless teen franchises that come out of Hollywood... more often than not, the central character doesn't have any discernible character traits. They're just the young, good-looking guy who goes on this journey. They're always played by fantastic young actors, but ultimately, they're not very interesting characters.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Good
  • Character
  • Guy

• Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Tomorrow
  • Yesterday
  • Regrets

• What I'm after is something different than supplying people with the idea that I'm writing an important play.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Stand
  • Other
  • Shoulders

• The restaurant business had a profound effect on my future and that of my two brothers. When we were able to stand on a stool to reach the sink, we washed dishes, and later, when we could see over the counter, we waited tables and managed the cash register.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Business
  • Future
  • Profound

• Each time a new disaster puts miners in the news, the press tries to make them into heroes, but they don't quite fit the bill. They don't march off to war or rush into burning buildings or rid our streets of crime.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Time
  • War
  • New

• ...went to a bar for a few drinks. The bartender asked what I wanted. "Surprise me", I said. So he showed me a naked picture of my wife.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Wife
  • Picture
  • Drinks

• The serve, I was too young and too small and... not enough powerful to have a good serve when I was young, so my forehand was always my signature shot. So I used to always run around my backhand, you know, use my forehand as much as I could, and so that's why I think it's my strength also today, you know.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Today
  • Powerful
  • Enough

• Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.

  

  Sallust
  • Great
  • Small
  • Fall

• Nam idem velle atque idem nolle, ea demum firma amicitia est.

  

  Sallust

• I'm a strong believer that you practice like you play, little things make big things happen.

  

  Tony Dorsett
  • Play
  • Practice
  • Believer