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
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  • 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
  • Years
  • 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
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  • Feel
  • Privilege

• I would love to have played Gollum.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Love
  • Played
  • Would

• Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • People
  • Listening
  • Years

• 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
  • People
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  • Done

• 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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  • Reputation

• Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being a gentlemen's club to being a few big players, and it's very corporatised.

  

  Iain Banks
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  • Club

• The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album.

  

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

  

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

  

  Ralph Kiner
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  • Fame
  • Been

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

  

  F. W. de Klerk
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  • States
  • Many

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

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Done
  • Years
  • Repair

• I just recently joined Twitter. It's very positive - I love all the accolades. If my ego is hurting, I can just open my Twitter account and see 'Oh, I love you! I love the show!' and it's great. I'm trying to find the balance between trying to be funny, being honest and just being a promoter as the guy on 'Royal Pains.'

  

  Mark Feuerstein
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  • Guy

• All of a sudden it felt like people were peering over my shoulder, wondering what I would write next. I was blocked for four years.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • People
  • Writing
  • Years

• I don't make a big deal out of playing football at UGA to people who have interviewed me.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • People
  • Me
  • Football

• To the extent that we've got a fiscal crisis right now, part of it is prompted by a bullheaded insistence on the part of the president, for example, that we should extend all of his tax cuts, make all of them permanent.

  

  Barack Obama
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• 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
  • Years
  • Ego
  • Played