Corey Dillon Quotes

Winning cures a lot of things, ... That was one of my biggest gripes, just not being able to compete.

Corey Dillon

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• I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Home
  • House
  • Lucky

• I feel like a lot of directing is casting.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Directing

• No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Work
  • Down
  • Upside Down

• My dad grew up wrestling. He knew Ken Shamrock, and I didn't know who he was at the time. So, he found out that Shamrock was in a gym in Reno, and he wanted me to go try a class with him. I tried it and fell in love the first day. Ken told me that I had potential in this sport, and he's the reason I kept at it.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Up
  • Time
  • Love

• I don't worry about whether I'm making a masterpiece, because I know that if you get just one of those in a lifetime, you should get down on your knees and say 'Thank you!'

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Know
  • Worry
  • Thank You

• The common base of all the Semitic creeds, winners or losers, was the ever present idea of world-worthlessness. Their profound reaction from matter led them to preach bareness, renunciation, poverty; and the atmosphere of this invention stifled the minds of the desert pitilessly.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • World
  • Present
  • Poverty

• He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Lying
  • Someone
  • Dresses

• Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Women
  • Energy
  • Space

• If I go to a reunion in east Texas, my mother's side or my father's, one out of ten is a preacher or a teacher. That's just the way it is in my family.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Father

• When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Party
  • Door
  • Tea

• I knew I didn't look like my sisters and I didn't have those shapes, but I didn't think that was wrong.

  

  Khloe Kardashian

• In my sport, we're measured in millimeters and fractions of millimeters.

  

  Matt Emmons

• Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.

  

  Eric Cantona
  • People
  • Fear

• True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.

  

  May Sarton
  • May
  • True
  • Feeling

• True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.

  

  Corliss Lamont
  • Character
  • True
  • Freedom

• It's been years and years and years I've been playing the drums, and they're still a challenge. I still enjoy using drumsticks and a snare drum.

  

  Charlie Watts The Rolling Stones
  • Challenge

• I've always been passionate about fashion.

  

  Billy Porter
  • Fashion

• Certainly for me, as an astrobiologist, science fiction has played an important role. One of the quandaries of our field is that we are trying to study and search for something - life - that we can't define in a rigorous way. We only have one example of a biosphere, so we can't really give a good definition.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • Life
  • Good
  • Important

• In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.

  

  Walter Pater
  • World
  • Failure
  • Eye

• Reproductive rights are about body and medical autonomy: our collective and deeply personal right to choose what we want to do to/with our bodies. Trans people and feminists should be building natural alliances here.

  

  Janet Mock
  • People

• It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Good
  • Virtue
  • Reverse

• Competing is exciting and winning is exhilarating, but the true prize will always be the self-knowledge and understanding that you have gained along the way.

  

  Sebastian Coe
  • Understanding
  • Winning
  • Discipline

• Food Stamps helped keep me from going hungry, and Pell grants helped me go to college.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Food
  • College
  • Keep

• Winning cures a lot of things, ... That was one of my biggest gripes, just not being able to compete.

  

  Corey Dillon
  • Winning
  • Compete
  • Cures