Rick Dees (Rigdon Osmond Dees III) Quotes

The University of North Carolina provided me with every tool necessary to rise to the top of my profession.

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• Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.

  

  Edie McClurg
  • Acting
  • Profession
  • Singular

• Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Singing
  • Plan
  • Profession

• Hollywood does tend to portray CIA officers as totally the honey trap. Looks matter as they do in any profession. But the most important thing for me when I was working was blending into my environment.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Important
  • Working
  • Hollywood

• It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Change
  • Survival
  • Necessary

• They wanted me to do movies and television when I was very young, and it was a big temptation, but I really thought the only way I could learn the profession was on the stage.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Way
  • Movies
  • Young

• For one cause or another, it has become necessary to impose restrictions upon the use of many commodities, including not a few of the necessities of life.

  

  Mackenzie King
  • Life
  • Necessary
  • Restriction

• Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Famous
  • Actors
  • Necessary

• Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Imagination
  • Common Sense
  • Provided

• Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Learned
  • Conversation
  • Profession

• One of the big draws of the show is here's a guy who is ordinary in a lot of ways but, due to his profession, he's placed in extraordinary situations that he has to make right with action and with thought. That's what is appealing about Jack - he takes charge.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Guy
  • Action
  • Profession

• I went to what is known as, and was at that time, too, Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. In fact, because of the lack of public school facilities, I began there. I began boarding school at the high school level; in fact, a year below the high school level.

  

  Ella Baker
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Poet
  • Profession
  • Condition

• We are ready to go to New York if necessary.

  

  Javier Solana
  • New York
  • Ready
  • Necessary

• Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship.

  

  Aristotle
  • Friendship
  • Life is
  • Necessary

• Gains in commodities provided a positive backdrop for the Canadian dollar.

  

  Ian Stannard
  • Gains
  • Provided
  • Canadian Dollar

• The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics.

  

  Socrates
  • Understanding
  • Ethics
  • Mathematics

• Turkish soldiers are very brave. They love their homeland and they do not hesitate to give their lives for it if necessary.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Brave
  • Lives
  • Necessary

• I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Men
  • Acting
  • Profession

• Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

  

  Ray Knight
  • Necessary
  • Concentration
  • Absolutely

• A mother loves her children unconditionally. However they wrong her, she'll carry on loving them.

  

  Alaa Al Aswany
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Loving

• The pine fought the storm and broke. The willow yielded to the wind and snow and did not break. Practice Jiu-Jitsu in just this way.

  

  Kano Jigoro
  • Practice
  • Wind
  • Storm

• If you have to end up in the hospital, try to focus all your pain in your heart rather than your head.

  

  Miriam Toews
  • Trying
  • Pain
  • Focus

• But what I heard was a low insistent murmur, with pauses for reply in which no reply was made. It had a hypnotic quality that I had never heard in any voice: a blend of urgency, cajolery, and extreme tenderness, and with below it the deep vibrato of a held-in laugh that might break out at any moment. It was the voice of someone wanting something very much and confident of getting it, but at the same time willing, no, constrained, to plead for it with all the force of his being.

  

  Leslie Poles Hartley
  • Quality
  • Voice
  • Insistent

• The University of North Carolina provided me with every tool necessary to rise to the top of my profession.

  

  Rick Dees
  • Profession
  • Necessary
  • Provided