Alice Foote MacDougall Quotes
I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.Alice Foote MacDougall
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
Manuel Moroun -
The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
Lafcadio Hearn -
I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
Gale Anne Hurd -
I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.
Jack Ramsay -
My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
Orson Welles -
I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.
Barry Humphries
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
Adam McKay -
I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
Salman Rushdie -
It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
Halldor Laxness -
We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.
Tadashi Yanai -
There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
A. J. Muste -
Writing for TV entails saying every dumb idea that comes into your head to a room of people. And doing so with the confidence that it doesn't make you look like an idiot.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.
Yvonne Craig -
I never trusted good-looking boys.
Frances McDormand -
How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
Lao Tzu -
I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
Wallis Simpson -
We signed up for Showtime, which I think put us on a Homeland Security list somewhere.
Kate Clinton -
China's own recent history proves that when it opens itself, there is nothing its people cannot accomplish. A more open China will lead to a more prosperous and stable China. That's good for China, the United States and, indeed, the entire world.
Gary Locke
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All empires are created of blood and fire.
Pablo Escobar -
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. All these and other factors combined, if the circumstances are right, can teach and can lead to rebirth.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
I grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., and I'm a great believer that you can't have too conservative a President nor too liberal a Supreme Court. So I'm a walking contradiction. I believe that you should try to really protect people's rights in every way, and also, people should be allowed to do what they do.
Jerry Della Femina -
We wanna believe that we're different than the average guy that's working 9-to-5, that our thoughts are different than his. Our inspirations and desires are different than his, that's why we succeed and he didn't cos we wanna believe we're different, but he just didn't get the break that we had...or he wasted it on something else.
Mike Tyson -
I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.
Alice Foote MacDougall