Dan Fante Quotes

Creativity is achieved in the doing, it's not achieved in the thinking.

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• I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Hurt
  • Operation
  • Judaism

• I don't think I have a signature.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Think
  • Signature

• I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Own
  • Too Much
  • Admit

• When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Food
  • Hand
  • Service

• Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Speak
  • Name
  • Grass

• Downloading songs is not good.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Good
  • Songs
  • Downloading

• As a girl I wanted the Cyndi Lauper hairstyle, with the shaved side of the head, or the Sharon Stone perm from 'Total Recall.'

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Girl
  • Stone
  • Recall

• As an actor, you look for roles that can constantly challenge you and you can learn from.

  

  Talisa Soto
  • Challenge
  • Learn
  • Look

• I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.

  

  Zach Gilford
  • Education
  • Film
  • Training

• People have been scared off Bitcoin by the fact that you needed to put your money in an unregulated overseas platform that has been cut off by banks and scrutinized by the Fed. We are looking to remove the pain points and create a way to invest that is faster and more secure.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • People
  • Money
  • Pain

• Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Funny
  • Dark
  • Negative

• High gas prices are eating away at consumer's disposal income and could lead to a further economic downturn, especially for those whose livelihood depend on gasoline and diesel fuel.

  

  Major Owens
  • High
  • Eating
  • Lead

• There are calm Korean players and not calm. There are calm Western players.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Calm
  • Players
  • Korean

• While there are worldly singularities, there are Christian and salutary ones, too; and this singularity by which one is differentiated from the crowd who tread the broad path is what constitutes the straight and narrow path of the Gospels. ... Holy things will never be established or reestablished so long as we have this fear of appearing singular.

  

  Pasquier Quesnel
  • Long
  • Fear
  • Christian

• A little longer still, and Heaven awaits thee,And fills thy spirit with a great delight;Then our pale joys will seem a dream forgotten,Our Sun a darkness, and our Day a Night.

  

  Adelaide Anne Procter
  • Great
  • Dream
  • Night

• When I was a kid, my dream was to be a farmer and marry Charlie Brown. I wanted to rescue him and make him happy. Besides, he was always lusting after 'the little redhead girl'.

  

  Alicia Witt
  • Happy
  • Dream
  • Girl

• To have come of age during and after the global financial crisis of 2008 is to belong to a generation often unable to do what an American could once expect, and to do what was once expected: Get a job, pay off student loans, and find a place of your own.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Job
  • American
  • Age

• I'm not going to whine or get depressed. Who's going to feel sorry for me? Nobody.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Sorry

• The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • God
  • Heart
  • Age

• It is my responsibility that I must make demonstrative efforts to reach out to every citizen of the country.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Country
  • Responsibility

• There is no fair use to take something that doesn't belong to you. That's not fair use.

  

  Jack Valenti

• With gamblers, it's never enough. You keep thinking on a conscious level that the prize is whatever the pot is. In poker, you may have a certain goal for the day. But the truth is, as soon as you win, more often than not the first thing that comes to mind is: If I'd bet more, I would have won more.

  

  Jason Gedrick
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • May

• If we want happiness, I think we should follow classic Greek wisdom and live with areté. The word directly translates as 'excellence' or 'virtue,' but has a deeper meaning — something closer to 'expressing the highest version of ourselves.' When we're showing up fully moment to moment, there's no room for regret/anxiety/disillusionment, just a whole lot of happiness. Here's to getting our areté on!

  

  Brian Francis Johnson AC/DC
  • Thinking
  • Moments
  • Regret

• Creativity is achieved in the doing, it's not achieved in the thinking.

  

  Dan Fante
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