Kirby Puckett Quotes

Don't take anything for granted, because tomorrow is not promised to any of us.

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• People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.

  

  Laura Marling
  • People
  • Think
  • Look

• Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Mind
  • Tell
  • Whatever

• I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Life
  • Decision
  • Early

• Believing in yourself and what you do is so important. It took me a long time to find that confidence. If you're an artist and you're taking risks, then you're doing something right if some people don't get it.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Doing
  • Direction
  • Group

• It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Important
  • Positive
  • Negative

• I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Time
  • Night
  • Morning

• Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Know
  • Famous

• I'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Writing
  • Lucky
  • Very

• The culture of self-gratification and deregulation that began during the Clinton years and continued under President George W. Bush led to the bursting of one stock market bubble at the turn of the century and a full-scale financial crash less than a decade later.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Culture
  • Years
  • Financial

• I made a very concerted decision to go to drama school in the United States. But I did have the opportunity to go to Britain's Central School of Speech and Drama, and my dad and I had a few tense words about that. He wanted me to go to British drama school.

  

  Kate Burton
  • School
  • Words
  • Opportunity

• As a child, I thought, 'Once I am a grown-up, there will be no more fear, no more worries,' and it turns out that's not true.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Up
  • True
  • Fear

• I not only work online through my various projects, but I am an avid user of online technologies to connect and engage with friends as well.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Online

• I think I first encountered Ebola from the movie 'Outbreak.' Then there was the book 'The Hot Zone.' It's the type of thing you either read and say, 'Oh wow, that's terrifying,' or you read it and say, 'Oh wow, I want to do that.' I read it and said, 'Oh wow, I want do that.'

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Want

• I want to be able to sing well, but I have the worst voice in the world.

  

  Kate Upton
  • World
  • Want
  • Voice

• Sometimes I feel like if I'm not getting people to boo me, then I'm not doing my job right.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • People
  • Job
  • Me

• The nice thing about publishing later in life is that you already know who you are. You don't have to hang out with the 'Paris Review' crowd to try to make yourself feel like a legitimate writer.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Life
  • Nice
  • Yourself

• By any definition, what happened in Bhutan in the years 1989-93 was ethnic cleansing. The Bhutanese government denies this and has refused to repatriate any of those forcibly expelled.

  

  Kai Bird
  • Government
  • Years
  • Ethnic

• I'm kind of a private person.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Kind
  • Person
  • Private Person

• I know this is going to get me in trouble, but I'll say it: The whole notion that I am supposed to constantly tweet is ridiculous. There are a lot of journalists at the New York Times who tweet. I am not opposed to it. But I don't have enough time. And editors don't have much to say. My world consists of this office, this floor, my apartment and wonderful conversations with our reporters and correspondents - all of them know a lot more about the world than I do.

  

  Dean Baquet
  • World
  • Enough
  • Trouble

• I just think that funerals are a lot like death itself. You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Death
  • Control
  • Wishes

• Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . . . . . 'There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that ever happens to man is natural, since his presence calls the whole world into question. All men must die, but for every man his death is an accident, and even if he knows it he would sense to it an unjustifiable violation.' Well, you may agree with the words or not, but those are the key spring of The Lord Of The Rings.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Death
  • Natural
  • Lord of the Rings

• Don't take anything for granted, because tomorrow is not promised to any of us.

  

  Kirby Puckett
  • Tomorrow
  • Granted
  • Promised