Hal Needham Quotes

He certainly has tried to keep me from breaking my neck in all the years I've been doubling him.

Hal Needham

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• Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.

  

  Laraine Day
  • Free
  • Me
  • Always

• Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • More
  • Nobody
  • Alumni

• I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Time
  • School
  • Father

• I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Believe
  • Choices
  • Chance

• The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Up
  • Good
  • Book

• The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Heart
  • Training
  • Close

• Every hero becomes a bore at last.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Hero
  • Last
  • Every

• Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Time
  • Day

• I personally see myself as a musician in the first place. You know, I don't want to say I will be a producer and DJ for the rest of my life. I can totally see myself being in another band in five years, if that's what my heart and soul wants to do, if that's what will make me happy. I'm totally happy to just not DJ anymore.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Happy

• The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
  • Work
  • School

• Enforcement is the long overdue step to protect our Nation from external threats in a time of war. And then once we do that, we can effectively discuss a guest worker program.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Time
  • Long
  • War

• The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Important
  • Think
  • Me

• Sometimes we all work so hard to overcome various things, and we are very cruel as a society and tough on people who we think aren't trying hard enough.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Energy
  • Model

• I think there's a certain level of trust that I have with women. I've always been honest, even when I haven't had good times in my life or my movie bombed or I've had great success. I've owned up to all of it.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Great
  • Political
  • Pressure

• You'd never look at a Rembrandt and say, 'That's just wood and canvas and paint - how much?!' It's all about how many people want it. It works on a pair of jeans as well - they're just material and stitching, and as soon as you walk out of the shop, they're worth nothing.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • People
  • Walk
  • Canvas

• Anything that looks good makes you feel better.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Good
  • Feel
  • Better

• I've always felt so different from how I look. I meet so many pretty girls who are like, 'Here I am! Don't you want me because I look good?' That concept is so weird to me. I want to know, 'What else do you have going on?'

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Different
  • Pretty
  • Weird

• The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five years old, with my older sister and younger brother, I knew that he was gone.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Remember
  • Parents
  • Dad

• But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • Music
  • Why
  • Years

• I was brought up in the '80s. I was born in 1975. So by the time I got to 10 and I kind of knew that I probably was going to have to be a grown-up lady at some point, the feminine role models that I had were kind of the cast of "Dynasty" and "Dallas." And I just found that terrifying.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Up
  • Time

• I was at CNBC for 20 years. I felt really great about covering the stock market, being on the floor, watching the daily knee-jerk reactions to the stock market..but the last three years, being at Fox, I've grown. I've learned more.

  

  Maria Bartiromo
  • Great
  • Daily
  • Stock

• He certainly has tried to keep me from breaking my neck in all the years I've been doubling him.

  

  Hal Needham
  • Years
  • Neck