Larry Wilcox Quotes

I've been very selective in what I did and didn't do.

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• We need to lift up the nation so we can find a more civil way to deal with our disagreements because, in these United States of America, no one should ever feel their life threatened over their political beliefs and positions.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Life
  • Up
  • America

• I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Father
  • Childhood
  • Lifestyle

• God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Good
  • God
  • Me

• There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Serious
  • Most
  • Iran

• It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Religious
  • Religion

• The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Lucky

• It's been a career filled with very low valleys and some wonderful, high peaks.

  

  Pat Morita
  • High
  • Career
  • Very

• It's very scary to me that people actually think we should just follow our leaders. If we can't learn from our history, we're nowhere.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • People
  • History
  • Learn

• All human beings are, in fact, born with dozens of mutations their parents lacked, and a few of those mutations could well be lethal if we didn't have two copies of every gene, so one can pick up the slack if the other malfunctions.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Human

• The problem with relegating black history to one really short month, the shortest month, is not only are we telling the same stories over and over again - which are amazing, George Washington Carver is incredible, there's nobody like Frederick Douglass - but there are so many.

  

  Karyn Parsons
  • History
  • Black
  • Amazing

• The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Real
  • Art
  • Beauty

• I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Men
  • Think
  • Doing

• I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own.

  

  Jack Palance
  • Best
  • See
  • Year

• I've never seen myself as a 'girl driver.' I'm just a driver.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Girl
  • Myself
  • Never

• The great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable, your energy precious. They are your success capital, and you cannot afford to heedlessly throw them away or trifle with them.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• I was born and raised in Essex, just outside London, to a financially comfortable, well-educated Pakistani family.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Family
  • Born
  • London

• Something funny certainly happens when palladium and platinum come into contact with hydrogen gas; it's one of the great mysteries still waiting to be solved on the periodic table. But it's quite a leap from 'something funny' to cold fusion.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Great
  • Funny
  • Waiting

• I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Meditation
  • Lot
  • Hippie

• I have employees that are, you know, other types of diversity, coming to me and saying 'Well, why aren't we focused on these other areas as well?' and I said yes, we should focus them, but, you know, the phrase we use internally is, 'If everything is important, then nothing is important.'

  

  Parker Harris
  • Important
  • Know
  • Focus

• There's so many issues tied to the meat industry. I mean, social, environmental, humanitarian - all of them. I know that when I'm eating that I'm not hurting the planet, I'm not hurting other people on this planet, I'm not hurting animals... and I'm not hurting nature.

  

  Maggie Q
  • People
  • Nature
  • Environmental

• You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • World
  • Good
  • Remember

• Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Think
  • Well
  • Did

• In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Up
  • Europe
  • Improve

• I've been very selective in what I did and didn't do.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Very
  • Did
  • Selective