Bishop Noel Jones Quotes

The only thing that will guarantee your failure is quitting. Those who win in this life are not those who never fail. Winners are those who never quit.

Bishop Noel Jones

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• I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.

  

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• Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.

  

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• Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.

  

  Yair Lapid
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• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

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• There are people who are born deaf and grow up deaf who don't speak at all, and some of them have told me that they resent a little bit that I do speak. But, you know, I have to be myself. I have to do what I'm comfortable doing.

  

  I. King Jordan
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• I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.

  

  Natalie Dormer
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• I'm involved in a different kind of campaign myself - to make sure that the climate crisis is the number one issue on the agenda of candidates in both parties. And I know that sounds like an unrealistic goal right now, but I will wager that by the time the elections of November 2008 come around, it will be the number one issue in both parties.

  

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• The only thing I did at RKO of any note was lose my Texas accent.

  

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• If my eyebrows are cool, if my eyeliner is popping, if I'm moisturized, then I can pretty much wear whatever I want. I think if your hair and your face are together, I think it's pretty much polished!

  

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• I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.

  

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• After I graduated, I tried Broadway, which was difficult for me. It was tough to get a part on Broadway, so I just started talking to audiences at different social gatherings, and little by little I became Don Rickles - whatever that is.

  

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• I've had great luck with directors. I've worked with all the great ones.

  

  Jerry Weintraub
  • Great
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• I declare I would rather be a kitten and cry, 'Mew!' than live as I see many of my female acquaintances do, tearing each other's characters to pieces, and wearing out their lives in vanity and vexation of spirit.

  

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  • Live

• One of the problems in America is that everybody focuses on their own narrow little bit of the problem without connecting punishment and prevention together, without connecting the schools and the police together, without connecting the pediatricians and the social workers together.

  

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• To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.

  

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• 'Shoop' is whatever you want it to mean. You just shooping around. Just shoop!

  

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• I think it's important to keep things private, and there are certain boundaries I feel very particular about drawing. It may seem fastidious, but my experience of talking to the press is that I need those boundaries to remain very clear.

  

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• People called me 'Iman the black model'. In my country, we're all black, so nobody called somebody else black. It was foreign to my ears.

  

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• I just think my life's been really blessed, because being in show business, I've met wonderful people, and I've traveled all over the world.

  

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• Life with you was lovely—and when I say lovely, I mean doves and lilies, and velvet, and that soft pink ‘v’ in the middle and the way your tongue curved up to the long, lingering ‘l.’ Our life together was alliterative, and when I think of all the little things which will die, now that we cannot share them, I feel as if we were dead too.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
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• I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Good
  • Great
  • Small

• Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
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• The only thing that will guarantee your failure is quitting. Those who win in this life are not those who never fail. Winners are those who never quit.

  

  Bishop Noel Jones
  • Failure
  • Guarantee
  • Winners