Bo Belinsky Quotes

People keep telling me I never lived up to my potential, that I wasted my talent. . . I just didn't have as much as people thought. I got more ink for doing less than any pitcher who ever lived.

Bo Belinsky

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• Everything's always about being homogenized and following in a group. The people who stand out always have the most problems.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Problems
  • Stand

• My couch is made of cat's hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it's made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can't have visitors. I can't ask people to sit on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they're walking around, and it's not fair to people.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Hair
  • Walking

• I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called Improv Olympic. They have showcases for Lorne Michaels and other writers and people who work at 'SNL' usually about once a year, although I don't know if it always happens.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• When you tell people you are a model, they have a very narrow view of who you are, and it's good to be able to say that it's not all that I am.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • People
  • Model
  • View

• The simple fact is that not enough people want to watch my program, and I owe it to myself and to CNN to get out of the way so that CNN can try something else.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • People
  • Simple
  • Myself

• Some people get a kick out of Taylor Hicks being their landlord.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • People
  • Kick
  • Some People

• Select your friendships carefully. Gather people around you who will reinforce your lifestyle.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • People
  • You
  • Friendships

• If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • People
  • Funny
  • Religious

• I really enjoy the shopping and going out and getting stuff for other people. I could really give a damn about getting gifts for myself, but I really enjoy giving gifts.

  

  Luke Combs
  • People
  • Giving
  • Shopping

• Everybody asks, 'What does 'Humans of New York' mean?' and I always say that I try to avoid putting any kind of message in the work even if it is a positive or optimistic message. The moment you do that, you're looking for certain people and words that fit into the world view you are trying to show, and it becomes preachy.

  

  Brandon Stanton
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• As you know, the South is known for its hospitality, traditions, football, pageants, and food. Football is almost like a religion here. People say their priorities are faith, family, and then football. People eat, breathe, and sleep it in the South. It's a huge deal.

  

  Katherine Webb
  • People
  • Family
  • Faith

• The problem with being an actor is that you have to be reactive to what other people want.

  

  Marisa Coughlan
  • People

• It's an important social duty to spread the word of English to people whose livelihoods depend on knowing the language.

  

  Billy Collins
  • People
  • Important
  • English

• It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.

  

  Boris Yeltsin
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• When people say, 'Stay in your lane; you're a musician, so you should only talk about music,' what do you think songs are written about? I connect with music because what somebody has said has resonated with me in one way or another.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • People
  • Music

• Carrying a movie is both a great privilege, it's a great opportunity, but it can be a great pressure, and sometimes that can make people behave very oddly.

  

  Kenneth Branagh
  • People
  • Great
  • Movie

• I think human beings will always still really enjoy using our imaginations, and 'Fringe' allows you to do that. It's slightly scary and believable. There just might be an alternate universe. There just might be people on the other side that are like us, living a different life.

  

  Jill Scott
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• Really, if you've got people who want you to play, you play.

  

  Paolo Nutini
  • People

• I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the majority of the people in the country supported the war then.

  

  Bill Ayers
  • People
  • Country
  • War

• Try to rally up as many people as you can with as much information as you can to try to get it to appear in front of the right people in the organization who are the decision-makers to greenlight the project.

  

  Jon Oringer
  • People
  • Up
  • Decision

• In my mind, it is certainly much nicer to end on a high note rather than on a Stout Pig.

  

  Dave Blood
  • Mind
  • High

• The thing I like about my body is that it's strong. I can move furniture around my apartment. I can ride my horse... I can play basketball. It's a well functioning machine.

  

  Cindy Crawford
  • Strong
  • Horse
  • Basketball

• What is art really? The outcome of dissatisfaction with life, the point of impact for the creative force, the continual movement of life.. ..in my art I attempt to explain life and its meaning to myself.

  

  Edvard Munch
  • Life
  • Art

• People keep telling me I never lived up to my potential, that I wasted my talent. . . I just didn't have as much as people thought. I got more ink for doing less than any pitcher who ever lived.

  

  Bo Belinsky
  • People
  • Talent
  • Pitcher