Winston Groom Quotes

So whatever else has happened, I am figgerin this: I can always look back an say, at least I ain't led no hum-drum life.

Winston Groom

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• There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

  

  B. C. Forbes
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  • Satisfaction
  • Truck

• Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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  • Black-and-white

• My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

  

  W. H. Auden
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• What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
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• With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out. There's a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation.

  

  Jack Black
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• History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

  

  Idries Shah
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• I want to look good when people see me.

  

  Christina Aguilera
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• I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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• If a film has a social message, it is very important for me to know what the message is and how it's going to be delivered, but it's not something I look for all the time.

  

  Aamir Khan
  • Time
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• Had I found the back of the net it would have been a double satisfaction but I've scored many goals and the important thing was for me to play well.

  

  Alessandro Del Piero
  • Important
  • Goals
  • Satisfaction

• If you look around the room, and you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.

  

  Lorne Michaels
  • Looks
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• If I'm not in the mood to deal with you, then I just don't deal with you. I look at it like, me not dealing with you could save me a lot of trouble - me forcing myself to deal with you could bring me a lot of trouble. So I just play it by ear.

  

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• Do not be fooled by one who recites the Qurân. His recitation is but speech – but look to those who act according to it.

  

  Umar
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  • Speech
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• Elijah looks angelic but his beauty of spirit is what makes his Frodo leap out of the screen. Unalloyed goodness is one of the most difficult attributes to act.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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• I try to paint what I have found and not what I look for. In art, intentions are of little importance.

  

  Pablo Picasso
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• To look at long term trends in our economy, in our society, in the international sphere and using my best judgment, shape policies that will serve the American people, keep them safe, keep our economy growing, put people back to work.

  

  Barack Obama
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• Your life, your soul, your world. They cannot kill it. Look at me, I’ve died but I opened my eyes again.

  

  Tablo
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• We were a commodity used by corporations to make their brand look fashionable, but then they used us to keep kids out of venues.

  

  Zachary Cole Smith
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• I think you're only as good as the work that you do.

  

  Josh Schwartz
  • Good
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• As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.

  

  E. M. Forster
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• For years, despite having impeccable taste, I didn't understand how to convey that I had impeccable taste.

  

  Courtney Love
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• The power under the Constitution will always be in the people. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain limited period, to representatives of their own choosing; and whenever it is executed contrary to their interest, or not agreeable to their wishes, their servants can, and undoubtedly will, be recalled.

  

  George Washington
  • People
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• Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four years old, they’re usually among the best readers by the time they’re eight.

  

  Mem Fox
  • Children
  • Development
  • Reader

• So whatever else has happened, I am figgerin this: I can always look back an say, at least I ain't led no hum-drum life.

  

  Winston Groom
  • Looks
  • Happened
  • Satisfaction