Christian D. Larson Quotes
The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.Christian D. Larson
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To my real estate agent, Chernobyl is a fixer-upper.
Yakov Smirnoff -
Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.
Kailash Kher -
I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up.
Rachel Maddow -
I'm concerned and alarmed about the images of girls and women that are broadcast every single minute.
Nancy Jo Sales -
What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.
David McCandless
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A real secret is something which only one person knows.
Idries Shah -
Defend my honor - Protect my pride
Nicki Minaj -
The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God that ever sand when the fire is going.
Caitlin Thomas -
I was so shy and when my sister was born I found it hard. I was really strange and kind of too quiet.
Beyonce Destiny's Child -
I'm not worried about where I rank between other QBs in the league.
Eli Manning -
Fighters are never who they appear to be.
Mike Tyson
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As part of my Christmas present I'd be giving chickens to a family in Nepal through the Heifer Foundation. I think they expanded my world when I was young to know sort of the other issues that were going on globally.
Serinda Swan -
There has never been a greater illusion than fear. Fear exists only whilst you believe in it - whilst you fear it. So...stop believing, stop fearing. Set up a shadow inventory, write down all your fears and set out on your warrior path. Make this your life purpose and gold will be smelt from your terror.
Geoff Thompson -
I know you're supposed to set goals for yourself. I see all that motivational stuff on television. Think about the future, what's next! But I'm all into the journey. It's fascinating to me. So if I make certain what I want moment to moment, I'm cool at the crossroads.
Cassandra Wilson -
Me and my wife were interested in avoiding style, in eliminating voice, in getting away from the poetry logics, textures, and propulsions that we normally employ in our writing. But we arrived at even this organically and separately.
Ben Doller -
Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts of fortune, in order that his activity may not be impeded through lack of them.
Aristotle -
I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.
Earl Weaver
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I am not a pessimist. Just a well informed optimist.
Antonio Gala -
I try to look at it like an angry optimist. In other words, I'm not happy with the state of affairs that we have. The rise of nationalism under the guise of patriotism is so effed up, and underneath this banner of patriotism is the worst of nationalist rhetoric: racism, xenophobia, sexism, pitting communities against each other, implicitly inciting race wars and stuff like that. So that's the angry part of it, but I'm incredibly optimistic about the potential to redefine what it means to be a patriotic American .
Hasan Minhaj -
The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best that is at hand now, and proceeds to create better times.
Christian D. Larson