Vernon Howard Quotes
The need to impress others causes half the world's woes. Don't add to them. Be real, not impressive.
Quotes to Explore
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There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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I'm an artist at heart.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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For someone who comes from my business background, getting fashion people aligned around certain things can be a challenge. In a way, the industry is so forward-looking. And yet, sometimes people in fashion are not open to change.
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I've eaten ice cream from all over the world, but until you've tasted Graham's from Geneva, Illinois, you haven't had ice cream at all.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.
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I like my feet. I have a tattoo on my foot with my last name. They're dancer feet. They're pretty. My toes are proportioned nicely. And they're strong - I can pinch people with my toes.
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Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.
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If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last thing you want is to not be independent in your home.
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It was weird - my parents would let me have some Green Day albums but not all Green Day albums.
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The cold, mean 'Sunset Boulevard' - a beautiful title, though I suspect it was shot on another boulevard - is further proof of the resurgence of art in the Hollywood of super-craftsmen with insuperable taste.
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My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was going on in the invisible world, the survival of the consciousness, precipitated paintings, mediumship, and trans-channeling.
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Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.
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In Minnesota, we hold our leaders to a higher standard. We demand that the men and women we send to Washington stand above reproach and steer clear of the web of corruption, kickbacks and special favors.
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The need to impress others causes half the world's woes. Don't add to them. Be real, not impressive.
