Rick Derringer Quotes

Because I was successful over the years, I never had the opportunity to do the stuff I really wanted.

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• Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • You
  • Child
  • Divorce

• I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Work
  • Cowboy
  • Hat

• As a kid, I was so short, it was tough for me to keep up with the taller guys. I always had quick feet, but I just didn't have any power, really, as a kid.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Up
  • Power
  • Short

• As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.

  

  Karen Elson
  • People
  • Real
  • Feeling

• I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.

  

  Ilie Nastase
  • Wife
  • Missing
  • Police

• I live in England, so I take a lot of trains, and you can't really go anywhere without somebody talking on their mobile phone behind you, forcing you to listen to their conversation. With the Internet, with texting, with networking sites, there's already information everywhere.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Live
  • Networking

• 2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Great
  • Me
  • Roles

• It's every boy's dream to play a superhero.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Dream
  • Boy
  • Superhero

• It's true that I love to connect with my fans on the social networking sites, but I try not to go overboard, ever. I just give people a peek into my mind space, but never bombard them with my tweets.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Mind
  • Love

• The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Work
  • Responsibility
  • Leadership

• To perform in front of a room full of people you go to school with would be terrifying. I couldn't do it now.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • School
  • Now

• When I was young, a lot of things were closed off to me. I was always told, 'Don't do this, you can't do that' – instead of stopping me, it made me think, 'I can do that, I must do that.'

  

  Omar Sy
  • Think
  • Always
  • Young

• The ability to do this so quickly was largely due to the enthusiastic and efficient services of Mr. C.E. Taylor, who did all the machine work in our shop for the first as well as the succeeding experimental machines.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Work
  • First
  • Enthusiastic

• I used to work at a punk venue in Pennsylvania because I wanted to be near music.

  

  Halsey
  • Work
  • Music
  • Punk

• I have been married for 58 years to the same woman. Our secret? Separate bathrooms.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Woman
  • Same
  • Married

• Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • World
  • Information

• People in grief need someone to walk with them without judging them.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • People
  • Grief
  • Judging

• Births to illegal immigrants now account for nearly one out of every ten births in the United States.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Now
  • Immigrants
  • United

• I have been given eyes to see and a mind to think, and now I know a great secret of life, for I perceive, at last, that all my problems, discouragements , and heartaches are, in truth, great opportunities in disguise.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Life
  • Great
  • Thinking

• I continue with the illusion of serving Colombia. Only God knows if it were to be from the presidency.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • God
  • Illusion
  • Serving

• God is a child who amuses himself, going from laughing to crying for no reason, each day reinventing the world to the chagrin of hair-splitters, pedants, and preachers, who try to teach God his job as Creator.

  

  Elie Faure
  • Child
  • Teach
  • Laughing

• With 'Into The Gloss' and now Glossier, the reason it was successful was because there were so many like-minded women out there who were also dissatisfied with their beauty experiences.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • Women

• Because I was successful over the years, I never had the opportunity to do the stuff I really wanted.

  

  Rick Derringer
  • Opportunity
  • Wanted
  • Because