Willie Pep Quotes

First your legs go. Then you lose your reflexes. Then you lose your friends

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• To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• I like the mix of stuff I do. I love movies, but I also enjoy performing live and writing songs.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Writing
  • Live
  • Love

• It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • President
  • Laws
  • Principle

• I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches - which you heard in the primary campaign - that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise tax.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • You
  • Said
  • Stock

• Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Important
  • Power
  • Never

• Background scores allow me an absolute flight of the imagination, and I travel in my mind's eye. I do not like the scores to have vocal notes, because they act as a limitation to these flights of fancy.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Mind
  • Imagination
  • Travel

• What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instincts of beasts.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Silly

• I'm terrifically absentminded.

  

  James Jannard

• I have a Bolex, Aaton, Arriflex, Eyemo, Filmo, Mitchell, Photosonic, Beaulieu, Keystone - just about every movie camera you can think of.

  

  James Jannard
  • Movie

• I have always admired the innovation and impact Apple products and services have on people's lives and hope in some small way I can help contribute to the company's continued success and leadership in changing the world.

  

  Angela Ahrendts
  • People
  • World
  • Help

• I would say I've done everything I wanted to.

  

  Jean-Paul Belmondo
  • Done

• The actors I admired were Bogart, Cagney, Cooper, Tracy. Great personalities. Real stars.

  

  Jean-Paul Belmondo
  • Great
  • Real

• Sleep is a key part of the requirements for resilience and good decision-making.

  

  James G. Stavridis
  • Good
  • Sleep
  • Decision

• My parents always told me if I believed something was wrong, I should try to fix it.

  

  Meghan Markle
  • Parents

• I think 'austerity' is a much abused word. I prefer to call it 'fiscal discipline' or financial, 'financial competency.'

  

  Enda Kenny
  • Financial
  • Discipline

• I'm quite claustrophobic, and I don't like everyone crowding around and shouting the same questions.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • Myself
  • Shouting

• I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason.

  

  Edmund H. North
  • People
  • Fear
  • Reason

• When I cruise around, I can't help but study people's faces and emotions and wonder why they're feeling the way they are.

  

  Aaron Bruno
  • People
  • Why
  • Help

• A trauma is something one repeats and repeats, after all, and this is the tragedy of the Iqbals--that they can't help but reenact the dash they once made from one land to another, from one faith to another, from one brown mother country into the pale, freckled arms of an imperial sovereign.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Country
  • Help
  • Mother

• I like doing very high action things. Running, boxing, a lot of free weights. They're not heavy. I eat what I want, really, because I think that while you're working out you can eat better.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • High
  • Free
  • Action

• I like to escape; I like to write when I go on a walk - I'm kind of very fairy that way. I get inspired by the wind. Or when I daydream, that's when I write.

  

  Imelda May
  • Kind
  • Inspired
  • Wind

• My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • Life
  • She
  • Mother

• I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Stage
  • Deals

• First your legs go. Then you lose your reflexes. Then you lose your friends

  

  Willie Pep
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  • Boxing
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