Rick Majerus Quotes

I am kind of the guy you'd expect to be driving an 18-wheeler through town.

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• A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Hero
  • Brave

• No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Feel
  • Need
  • Sorry

• In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Time
  • Done
  • Serious

• There are a lot of new opportunities that are poking their head up in my future. I've been very fortunate that way, but for right now, what I like is what I'm doing.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Up
  • Future
  • Doing

• The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Time
  • Power
  • Plant

• I find it heartening that readers are still excited about diving into a world.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • World
  • Find
  • Excited

• I'm not radical.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Radical

• In a perfect world, we would have put users in control of their information when the Internet was first created.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • World
  • Control
  • Perfect

• Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Care
  • Race
  • Hollywood

• I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' That was discouraging because I thought it was almost done.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Good
  • Done
  • Friends

• Going to film school just made me love it. Before film school, I didn't really think much of acting. I was more into making music, but going to school and learning about it every day, it made me grow profound respect for the art.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Music
  • School
  • Love

• Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.

  

  Pam Gems
  • Heart
  • Drama
  • Said

• The wheelchair and the prosthesis give me a soapbox to stand on. If it helps me get my message across, I'm glad; then we need to talk about what we need to do for this country.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Country
  • Me
  • Stand

• I'm just a down-to-earth guy.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Guy
  • Earth
  • Just

• I think that when people who've had success from a young age go through a train-wreck cycle, it's usually because they're working on someone else's terms, so they feel the need to rebel. But when it's something you've built, you don't have that same kind of resentment or angstiness. But it's also difficult to keep those standards for yourself.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Age
  • Success

• At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching - that way, you pick up new ideas.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Up
  • Think
  • You

• I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Life
  • Past
  • Change

• Normally, when one passes someone on the street who is in pain, one either tries to help him, or one simply looks the other way. With a photo there's no human decision; you're not there; you can't turn away; you simply gape. It's a form of voyeurism.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Help
  • Pain
  • Decision

• Enron and 9/11 marked the end of an era of individual freedom and the beginning of personal responsibility.

  

  Jeffrey R. Immelt
  • Freedom
  • Responsibility
  • Beginning

• So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration.

  

  Bill Sienkiewicz
  • Truth

• I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Death
  • Just
  • Yes

• Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Trying
  • Running
  • Shadow

• AI does not keep me up at night. Almost no one is working on conscious machines. Deep learning algorithms, or Google search, or Facebook personalization, or Siri or self driving cars or Watson, those have the same relationship to conscious machines as a toaster does to a chess-playing computer.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Up
  • Night
  • Relationship

• I am kind of the guy you'd expect to be driving an 18-wheeler through town.

  

  Rick Majerus
  • Driving
  • Expect
  • Through