Archie Manning Quotes

I've always said, in the era that I played, all those years with the Saints, you don't come out with a big ego.

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• I never thought then I'd be doing what I'm doing now. At my high school, being on the girls soccer team was the cool thing to do, but that was definitely never going to happen for me, so I played music. Not because everyone thought it was awesome, but for the love of it.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Music
  • Thought
  • Awesome

• 'I can't get no satisfaction,' in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Political
  • Years
  • Politics

• It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

  

  Eddie Cantor
  • Success
  • Years
  • Overnight

• I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.

  

  Ted Chiang
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Years

• I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • House
  • Years
  • Over

• After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Book
  • Words
  • Years

• Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
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  • Know
  • Years

• It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

  

  Hank Aaron
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  • Baseball
  • Get

• It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to play in the sandbox with the grown-ups.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Play
  • Feel
  • Privilege

• I would love to have played Gollum.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Love
  • Played
  • Would

• The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
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• It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

  

  Warren Buffett
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  • Years
  • Reputation

• Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • America
  • Christian
  • Years

• Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame five years in a row.

  

  Ralph Kiner
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  • Fame
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• For many years, I supported the concept of separate states.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
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• The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• I just want to make it clear that I have been working since I was ten years old.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
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  • Years
  • Old

• Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.

  

  Ted Cruz
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  • Trivial Pursuit

• The first movie, I was 23; I thought I knew everything, but my ego soon took an irrevocable blow.

  

  James Gray
  • Movie
  • Ego
  • Blow

• More the knowledge lesser the Ego, lesser the knowledge, more the Ego.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Knowledge
  • More
  • Ego

• Where no interest is takes in science, literature and liberal pursuits, mere facts and insignificant criticisms necessarily become the themes of discourse; and minds, strangers alike to activity and meditation, become so limited as to render all intercourse with them at once tasteless and oppressive.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Mind
  • Science
  • Literature

• Belts distract the eye from a bloated tummy, a heavy-set upper body and all manner of sins. They can be a superb way to update your wardrobe without breaking the bank, and there's no reason to stop wearing them, ever!

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Stop
  • Eye
  • Sins

• Nothing in Art is achieved by will alone. It is achieved by docilely submitting to the subconscious.

  

  Odilon Redon
  • Art
  • Alone
  • Achieved

• I've always said, in the era that I played, all those years with the Saints, you don't come out with a big ego.

  

  Archie Manning
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