David Wright Quotes

Sure, finishing last has negative connotations. But finishing second-to-last or last is still losing.

David Wright

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• A lot of the stuff about white-supremacist groups was very family-friendly: 'We just love our people.' One the surface, you go, 'Gee, what's wrong with loving your people?' But when you love your people to the exclusion of everything else that's remotely different, that's when you get into trouble.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • Different
  • Family

• The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • Attention
  • College

• I'm really boring. I get up early. I go to bed early. I don't smoke or drink. I mean, I'll eat a cupcake. I'm just not a crazy, stay-out-all-night sort of person. I love writing.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Writing
  • Crazy
  • Person

• Kate Moss has great style.

  

  Yigal Azrouël
  • Great
  • Style
  • Moss

• I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Think
  • Hand
  • Daughter

• It's nice to film in somewhere that you actually love being. Usually, you're in a studio for months on end, and you never see any daylight, so you really make the most of it.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Love
  • Nice
  • End

• There are a bunch of songs that I think are beautiful recordings, and I'm proud of them, but I've no interest in listening to them.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Beautiful
  • Proud
  • Listening

• I am Lebanese, and I know the interests of my country.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Country
  • Interests
  • Lebanese

• We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Respect

• I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • People
  • Think
  • Fear

• No one man is superior to the game.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Game
  • Man
  • Superior

• The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • World
  • Daily
  • Greatest

• From the beginning of church history, music, writing, literature, and the greatest works of art all came from the church. To change the culture and make it a force for good, you have to be in it and be a part of it.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Good
  • Music
  • Writing

• My parents were hippies. I'm the eldest of eight children.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Hippies

• A commodity producer should be comfortable being exposed to prices.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Being
  • Comfortable
  • Exposed

• Liverpool is a fundamental part of my life. They don't remember me that way, but time will change that. I could not have chosen a better place to go when I left Atletico.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Life
  • Time
  • Remember

• It's important to keep your power and not give it up.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Up
  • Important
  • Power

• It's a constant battle between what your heart tells you, and what your brain tells you.

  

  Dat Phan
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Constant

• What I do is more than just the clothes. It's getting out whatever is inside that's screaming the loudest. I wouldn't call it therapeutic. It's not that conscious.

  

  Gareth Pugh
  • Clothes
  • Conscious
  • Therapeutic

• It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Up
  • Good
  • You

• But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• Sure, finishing last has negative connotations. But finishing second-to-last or last is still losing.

  

  David Wright
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