Jim Valvano Quotes

If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.

Jim Valvano

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• I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost diametrically opposed to my very regimented day-to-day living.

  

  K. Flay
  • World
  • Music
  • Chaos

• You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Me
  • Famous
  • Seems

• 'Float On' was a fine song, but I was still writing the lyrics on the last day we were working on it and deciding if it was something we wanted to put on the record.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Day

• The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • Rules
  • Rule
  • Only

• When I'm not supposed to do something, it becomes more attractive to me.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • Me
  • More
  • Supposed

• The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.

  

  G. Stanley Hall
  • May
  • Future
  • Man

• At the Justice Department, we have no greater obligation than ensuring all people are treated equally under the law, and Americans must know that we will vigorously pursue criminal activity regardless of whether the crime is committed on a street corner or in a corner office.

  

  Sally Yates
  • People
  • Law
  • Justice

• As people, right now, we're so over-stimulated in this world that I don't know what I'd do in Wyoming. I really don't know what I'd do. I would probably have a heart attack because I'd be so lonely, and I'd actually have to listen to myself think. That's a terrifying prospect for myself, and I'm sure many other people as well.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • World
  • Heart

• I remember - when I was little, I remember playing 'Tecmo Bowl,' and I would be so excited to be Bo Jackson in the game that I wanted to watch him play in real life.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Life
  • Real
  • Remember

• President Trump has a serious credibility problem. He tries to take credit for jobs he didn't create and, with respect to the F-35 program, savings that were achieved before he even took office.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Respect
  • Problem
  • Serious

• You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • People
  • Culture
  • Leadership

• There was a point when it all really took off and got quite overwhelming, even though I didn't realize it.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Point
  • Realize
  • Got

• I wasn't intentionally trying to be different, but that was an element of what I naturally do that happened to be unique enough to spark a curiosity for people.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Different
  • Trying

• We really think highly of the executives at SBC. And Microsoft is one of the great companies of the 21st century. It is in all of our best interests to work together. In this new wave of technology, you can't do it all yourself; you have to form alliances.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Work
  • Great
  • Together

• A lot of magic happens when you put out a publicity release. I have launched many products with the money I got back from my publicity release.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Money
  • Magic
  • Release

• I love arranging my music, not in alphabetical order but by mood, creating playlists for when I have energy and want to work out or go-out party mixes and music to chill out to.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Work
  • Music
  • Energy

• I was obsessed with clowns. My dad had to get rid of them. I thought there were clowns under my bed for years.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Dad
  • Thought
  • Years

• A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• I help people as a way to work on myself, and I work on myself to help people… To me, that’s what the emerging game is all about.

  

  Ram Dass
  • People
  • Work
  • Help

• You can't live with letting your feelings guide you, you'll get smooshed.

  

  Miriam Shor
  • Feelings
  • Guide

• Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Age

• When you make a movie, you're spending a month of your life with someone and, down the line, you have to spend more months with them. It is this mini-marriage that you have.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Marriage

• If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.

  

  Jim Valvano