Everette Lee DeGolyer Quotes

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• Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Why
  • More
  • Soccer

• One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Black
  • Greatest
  • Feminism

• And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Important
  • Become
  • Invention

• It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Family
  • Why
  • Want

• The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Writing
  • Free

• The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Best
  • Choose
  • Heroes

• I'm 80 years old, and I don't know what I'm going to be when I grow up.

  

  Larry King
  • Up
  • Know
  • Grow

• In men's sports, people criticize coaches and managers all the time, call out teammates, too, and it's not that huge of a deal. Often, the guy speaking out is even lauded for having the courage to tell the truth. When it happens in women's sports, though, it always seems to be viewed as a nasty, claws-out cat fight.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• Few things are as essential as education.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Education
  • Things
  • Few

• Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Life
  • Time
  • Weep

• Most of the people at my headline shows are in their 20s, but it varies a ton: like, I've had a six-year-old hug my leg after the show and a 60-year-old shake my hand. It's cool to see people connecting with the music across different generations.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• The security of our country is not just a top priority, it's the top priority.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Country
  • Security
  • Priority

• It was fortunate in looking back for South Africa and its entire people that Mandela and I found it possible to work together even though big strains developed between us from time to time.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Where
  • University
  • Professor

• They are born, put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called 'work' in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they talk about thinking 'outside the box'; and when they die they are put in a box.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Live

• So to be patriots as not to forget we are gentlemen.

  

  Edmund Burke

• I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Done
  • Evil

• Vengo de morirme, no de haber nacido. De haber nacido me voy.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• My friends and the people who are close to me know what I am. And that is enough.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • People
  • Friends

• The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • First
  • Selling
  • Restaurant

• I have given you the power of choice, and you only alternate Between futile speculation and unconsidered action.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Power
  • Action

• In the course of my movies, the financing and the releasing were always the tough part. Because I loved the creative; I loved the writing. I loved the making of it. Because, I guess, I never had the giant blockbuster, I never got that sort of ease for the next one.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Writing

• Be present in your work because kids live in the moment, so as soon as you're not in the present, you're not being authentic.

  

  Kadir Nelson
  • Work
  • Live
  • Kids

• Prospecting for oil is a dynamic art... The greatest single element in all prospecting, past, present and future, is the man willing to take a chance

  

  Everette Lee DeGolyer
  • Future
  • Present
  • Chance