Wilbur L. Creech Quotes

I'm not wild about accepting responsibility without authority. Why should my people be?

Wilbur L. Creech

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• If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Respect

• What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Character
  • Happy
  • Man

• 'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Important
  • Way
  • Actor

• Don't let yourself make excuses for not doing the things you want to do.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Yourself
  • Doing
  • Excuses

• Never judge a stranger by his clothes.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Never
  • Judge
  • Clothes

• You can't make the audience fall in love with a character you don't like.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Character
  • Like
  • Audience

• If you spend your whole life being depressed about life, you're wasting it.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Life
  • You
  • Whole

• Studios are like hospitals. A lot of people check in, and they don't check out.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • People
  • Like
  • Check

• Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.

  

  Nas
  • Up
  • War
  • Man

• The centre of gravity of a parallelogram is the point of intersection of its diagonals.

  

  Archimedes

• They the government cannot stop people from communicating freely, to get information and to express themselves. When they do that, this nation is not a right place to live. They sacrifice generations of people’s opportunities. This is a crime.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Live
  • Stop

• Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Men
  • Action
  • Path

• You might see some of the movies that I'm in where there are shades of drama or whatever, but for the most part, I don't get offered serious roles.

  

  Martin Lawrence
  • Serious
  • Drama

• I will try to make my career as long as possible. For me, it's not about money, so I just love playing the game.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
  • Long
  • Money
  • Game

• I have no business being a journalist. I'm the least, I'm the least - I'm the most trusting, I absolutely make a habit of believing anything that anybody tells me about themselves. I've never had any reason in the world to think that anyone has wanted to harm me, or lie to me. I believe whatever is being sold, most of the time.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Time
  • World
  • Believe

• I remember sitting on the back of the bus on the first day of the Social Experiment tour with my face in my hands. I emptied out my bank account, and before I did that tour, that was the number one thing I said I'd never do. I'll never empty out my savings.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • Remember

• Don't play dead with a vulture. That's exactly what they want.

  

  Kevin Nealon

• 'Double Indemnity' is one of my all time favorites. That's my favorite.

  

  Alaina Huffman
  • Time

• Anyone who believes that the eternal question of war and peace in Europe is no longer there risks being deeply mistaken.

  

  Jean-Claude Juncker
  • War
  • Peace
  • Question

• When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• Every dollar spent on education should go toward helping our teachers teach and our students learn.

  

  Doug Ducey
  • Education

• I'm saying to you that one of the great characteristics of the great American, the American people, is our historic ability to be straightforward, plainspoken, say what we mean, and mean what we say.

  

  Lou Dobbs
  • People
  • Great
  • American

• I'm not wild about accepting responsibility without authority. Why should my people be?

  

  Wilbur L. Creech
  • Responsibility
  • Authority
  • Accepting