Al Oerter Quotes

I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.

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• I think shoppers are looking for newness and creativity. Look at C. Wonder, for instance. They're dancing in our stores. We don't believe in retail like retail was done in the past. We believe in disrupting the whole environment, offering them amazing value in an amazing package of fun, excitement and whimsy.

  

  J. Christopher Burch
  • Believe
  • Done
  • Fun

• I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.

  

  Frances Bay
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Thought

• Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • Now
  • Africa
  • Cyber

• If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Work
  • Care
  • Down

• While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Love
  • Funny
  • Busy

• I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Never
  • Theory
  • Communist

• Listen to the sounds of nature. Wishing you the best on your trek towards your dreams.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Nature
  • Best
  • Dreams

• When you feel stuck in a hard time, jump-start a pro-change attitude by letting go of possessions that no longer work for you - like old clothes and old shoes.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Time
  • Work
  • Attitude

• I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Human
  • Turn

• Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Talk
  • React

• The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'

  

  Utkarsh Ambudkar
  • People
  • Love
  • Boy

• Everybody does their homework, and we all come together and just knock it out. There are adjustments to make, and if you have actors who are collaborators and who really know how to listen and be in the scene together, than it works out beautifully.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Together
  • Know
  • Homework

• My imagination is a twisted place.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Imagination
  • Place
  • Twisted

• Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • People
  • Think
  • Career

• When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Words

• Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Person
  • Talent
  • Genius

• I am definitely a spiritually centered person and that is usually one of my biggest guiding lights beyond music.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • Music
  • Person
  • Spiritually

• But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Attention
  • Doing
  • Nails

• The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit of mind becomes that of a commander who has lost a decisive and calamitous battle. He quite trusts himself thereafter.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Lost

• Basically, I was always very interested in comedy, but I was much more sort of academic. And then, after college, loaded with my art history degree, I decided to go work at Comedy Central as a temp.

  

  Jessi Klein
  • Work
  • Art
  • History

• We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Live
  • May
  • History

• I grew up as one of six kids.

  

  Billy Baldwin
  • Up
  • Kids

• Thought is no longer theoretical. As soon as it functions it offends or reconciles, attracts or repels, breaks, dissociates, unites or reunites; it cannot help but liberate or enslave. Even before prescribing, suggesting a future, saying what must be done, even before exhorting or merely sounding an alarm, thought, at the level of its existence, in its very dawning, is in itself an action-a perilous act.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Thought
  • Existence
  • Liberate

• I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.

  

  Al Oerter
  • History