Fauja Singh Quotes

Living life is like running a marathon. It takes a lot of courage and tenacity to keep going till the end.

Fauja Singh

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• I regrettably wasted time at university by being overwhelmed and intimidated by the talent of other composers. I felt stuck and didn't know what I was doing there. I enjoyed my experience, but I didn't grab it in the way I would now.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Talent

• I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Country
  • High
  • You

• I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Know

• 'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • World
  • American
  • Jews

• I worked with HBO on 'Recount,' and we had a wonderful experience together. I'm such a fan of HBO and how much flexibility they give in character as well as schedule.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Together

• My career is a journey for me, and any journey is incomplete without the struggle.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Career
  • Me
  • Struggle

• I was joking with someone about this the other day. They were like, 'You talk about Applebee's as if it was your ex.' I miss it; I miss setting up tables at 6 A.M.

  

  Verite
  • Up
  • You
  • Day

• The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'

  

  Bartlett Sher
  • Think
  • Romantic
  • Last

• A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Good
  • Eye
  • Movies

• Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Music
  • God
  • Art

• I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.

  

  Kaki King
  • People
  • Want
  • Play

• When I'm depressed, I definitely comfort eat, but I also eat when I'm happy. The only time I don't eat is if I am terribly nervous.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Happy
  • Nervous
  • Eat

• 'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I think, as a working mom, I have to dress myself differently now. I used to wear very kind of precious clothes. Now I wear more black.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Black
  • Mom
  • Myself

• We owe it to our children to equip them with all the capabilities they'll need to thrive in the limitless world beyond the classrooms.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • World
  • Children
  • Thrive

• Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Enemy
  • Him
  • Seriously

• I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • People
  • Think
  • Internet

• This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Live
  • Business

• In 'Queer as Folk,' we had three or four sex scenes in every episode, so I got used to doing that very early on. Those kinds of scenes can be challenging. They take a bit of time, and everyone's a bit nervous.

  

  Jeremy Podeswa
  • Time
  • Sex

• When you're working with music that is invariably better than you are, it's difficult to become swell-headed.

  

  Andre Previn
  • Music

• The fatalism of the limits-to-growth alternative is reasonable only if one ignores all the resources beyond our atmosphere, resources thousands of times greater than we could ever obtain from our beleaguered Earth. As expressed very beautifully in the language of House Concurrent Resolution 451, 'This tiny Earth is not humanity's prison, is not a closed and dwindling resource, but is in fact only part of a vast system rich in opportunities...'

  

  Gerard K. O'Neill
  • Beautiful
  • Opportunity
  • Humanity

• We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Happy
  • Relationship
  • Day

• As a child, I used 'gay' as a bad word, as in, 'That's so gay.' All my friends did.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Friends
  • Bad
  • Gay

• Living life is like running a marathon. It takes a lot of courage and tenacity to keep going till the end.

  

  Fauja Singh
  • Running
  • Courage
  • End