George Stoneman Quotes

I will embrace the first opportunity to get to California and it is altogether probable that when once there I shall never again leave it.

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• I would love to be a role model.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Love
  • Model
  • Role Model

• For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn't a lot of talk about that psychological toll of racism, at least in white circles and white media.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Violence
  • Racism
  • Awareness

• I am from Karnal, India.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • India
  • Karnal

• I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Me
  • Baseball
  • Lucky

• I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • People
  • Friends
  • Mother

• I've never played a Dane in a movie. I've had offers to be in Danish movies, including for some good directors, but I either had a job at the time or, when I was available, the movie just didn't happen. Hopefully someday I'll do one.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.

  

  Kajol
  • Men
  • Everything
  • Turn

• Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Help
  • Looking
  • Tragedy

• Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create a really contained story. We wanted to be on a set as much as we could to get the kind of style level we were looking for.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • Style
  • Story
  • Influence

• I have been married for 58 years to the same woman. Our secret? Separate bathrooms.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Woman
  • Same
  • Married

• For the rich, it's not about getting more stuff. It's about having the freedom to make almost any decision you want.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Freedom
  • Decision
  • Rich

• If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Know
  • Going
  • Answer

• The Pawnee chief had left the village the day after the doctor arrived, with 50 or 60 horses and many people, and had taken his course to the north of our route.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • People
  • Day
  • Taken

• There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Natural

• Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.

  

  E. F. Schumacher

• I've got a one-dimensional mind.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Mind

• As we all know, there is inner beauty and outer beauty. If we examine inner beauty, to me there is nothing more beautiful than inner peace, in a man or a woman.

  

  Alice Greczyn
  • Beautiful
  • Peace

• I won't perform in Cuba until there's no more Castro and there's a free Cuba. To me, Cuba's the biggest prison in the world, and I would be very hypocritical were I to perform there.

  

  Pitbull
  • World
  • Free

• It's never bad to be liked, and who doesn't feel good being liked, but that can't be your end game goal.

  

  Jessica Capshaw
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Game

• When we're outside of the racetrack and in our team meetings, you need to communicate with your teammates and do what's best for the company in order to give the people that work there the best opportunity to succeed and maximize the potential of their job.

  

  Kevin Harvick
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• We have thousands of opportunities every day to be grateful: for having good weather, to have slept well last night, to be able to get up, to be healthy, to have enough to eat. ... There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful; that's what life is.

  

  David Steindl-Rast
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Health

• We don't have control over our lives. We just have control over how we take things.

  

  Alice Kuipers
  • Control
  • Lives
  • Take

• I never pursued acting with, like, auditions. If anything, I was given roles by people who knew me and liked what I did.

  

  H. Jon Benjamin
  • People
  • Me
  • Roles

• I will embrace the first opportunity to get to California and it is altogether probable that when once there I shall never again leave it.

  

  George Stoneman
  • Opportunity
  • Firsts
  • Embrace