Zig Ziglar Quotes
You might occasionally feel that some people are standing in the way and slowing your progress, but in reality the biggest person standing in your way is you. Others can stop you temporarily - you are the only one who can do it permanently.
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with 'Shooting Fish.' Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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Some days, I feel like I should win Best Mom of the Day award, and some days, I find myself doing strange things that don't have any real purpose, in faraway corners in my house, and I realize I am literally and deliberately hiding from my children.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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Whether it's just walking down the street to try to go to a movie, go to dinner, something like that, there are always a few people that recognize you.
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Too many people in government seem to think they are above regular folks, and I said I would expect humility in the way each member of my team served- that they would recognize that the taxpayer is boss.
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When you write songs for your best friends and maybe two other people to hear, and then realize that a million other people are going to hear them, it can be a bit worrying. You get concerned about what you might reveal.
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I'm from L.A., but everyone thinks that I'm British.
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I don't steal stories. If I'm a plagiarist, so is Hitchcock. And Tolkien. And Shakespeare.
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You might occasionally feel that some people are standing in the way and slowing your progress, but in reality the biggest person standing in your way is you. Others can stop you temporarily - you are the only one who can do it permanently.
