George Vaillant Quotes

Life ain't easy. Terrible things happen to everyone. You have to keep your sense of humor, give something of yourself to others, make friends who are younger than you, learn new things, and have fun.

George Vaillant

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• When I read, I take notes and underline things. So reading is a vigorous process for me, but I read in bed. My poor husband is trying to go to sleep, and I'm reaching over him to get the Post-it notes.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Trying
  • Reading
  • Sleep

• Genius always finds itself a century too early.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Genius
  • Intelligence
  • Early

• Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Women
  • Black
  • Fools

• Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • World
  • You
  • Sometimes

• My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Parents
  • Said
  • Times

• When I first came in the business, I had a couple of close calls on planes going to London for shows. There was one time where the plane had to fly around until a storm ended, and then we started having a question about fuel, so we had to go through the storm. It was the worst thing that ever happened in my life. That really messed me up.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I don't like the word 'balance.' To me, that somehow conjures up conflict between work and family... as long as we think of these things as conflicting, we will never have happiness. True happiness comes from integration... of work, family, self, community.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Up
  • Work
  • Long

• It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Death
  • Daily
  • Breakfast

• I have this sense of humour which is about as sophisticated as a seven-year-old schoolboy. I get very overexcited and silly.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Sense
  • Silly
  • Sophisticated

• You have people who can't act and they get all these parts. Paris Hilton falls into her own category. She's made a career out of it.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • People
  • She
  • Career

• President Bush and I had asked Congress to appropriate a half-billion dollars to school vouchers. We didn't get it, and we were disappointed. But we did not go out and form a corporation to pay for it. That would have been a problem.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • School
  • Problem
  • President

• People can't really place me. They're not really sure who I am.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Place
  • Sure

• We weren't One Hit Wonders. We had a few hits.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Hit
  • Wonders
  • Few

• I'm a clown, which could be a public health role. I'm really interested in moving our society away from a society needing Xanax and Prozac, and that is really feeling depressed, to one that is celebrating, and so I find just walking around in colorful clothes, people smile.

  

  Patch Adams
  • People
  • Society
  • Feeling

• Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Earth
  • Best
  • Sleep

• We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • People
  • Know
  • Better

• What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is supported by hard evidence rigorously and skeptically examined. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Believe

• There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.

  

  Antonin Artaud
  • People
  • Life

• There is no Negro problem. There is no Southern problem. There is no Northern problem. There is only an American problem. And we are met here tonight as Americans - not as Democrats or Republicans-we are met here as Americans to solve that problem.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • American

• I'm a country guy from a small town, you know, and it comes across as real because it is.

  

  Brantley Gilbert
  • Country
  • Real
  • Guy

• I love boats. Anything that runs, anything mechanical. It's my God-given passion in life.

  

  Dennis Washington
  • Life
  • God
  • Passion

• My mother - neither one of my parents went to college. My mother, after her four children had grown up, went back and got her high school equivalency degree at night, at Central High School in Providence, became a teacher's aide.

  

  Tad Devine
  • Up
  • Children
  • School

• Life ain't easy. Terrible things happen to everyone. You have to keep your sense of humor, give something of yourself to others, make friends who are younger than you, learn new things, and have fun.

  

  George Vaillant
  • Life
  • Fun
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