Jim Valvano Quotes

I set out very calculatedly to become known. The only thing I maybe miscalculated was how easy it would be.

Jim Valvano

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• If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Never
  • Mistakes
  • Upset

• Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Up
  • America
  • Light

• I realized that I'm a soft person. I think I'm sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a certain kind of resilience and toughness to them, but I'm quite a sensitive young lady in some respects.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Movie
  • Stars
  • Tough

• Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Earth
  • Small
  • Ocean

• The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Book
  • Education
  • Friend

• I pray for discretion every single night, that I can see through people, see what their greater good is. Sometimes that individual 'wows' you by the eye, but when it come to heart to heart, that person's not there for you. That's not just females. That may be friends, people who come into your life just to use you for who you are.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I'm never really going to be the normal teenager.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Never
  • Teenager
  • Going

• There's nothing in Hollywood that's inherently detrimental to good art. I think that's a fallacy that we've created because we frame the work that way too overtly. 'This is Hollywood.' 'This isn't Hollywood.' It's like, 'No, this is actually all Hollywood.' People are just framing them differently.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• A good movie is made by an initial burst of energy, the way that, when you are in school, your class exercises are always better than your final projects.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Good
  • School
  • Movie

• I don't want to do only blockbusters.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Want
  • Only
  • Blockbusters

• As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Great
  • Children
  • Hope

• I am not a 'doom and gloom' guy.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Doom
  • Gloom

• It was inspiring to see local legends like E-40 and Keak da Sneak break out with 'Tell Me When to Go.'

  

  G-Eazy
  • See
  • Inspiring
  • Legends

• A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

  

  Sam Houston
  • People
  • Live
  • Leader

• I really have the American dream licked.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • American
  • Dream
  • American Dream

• I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Poetry

• The world is a better place with Saddam Hussein gone.

  

  Karl Rove
  • World
  • Better
  • Place

• I want to make films that cater to the world audiences.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • World
  • Want
  • Audiences

• The outcome of my days is always the same; an infinite desire for what one never gets; a void one cannot fill; an utter yearning to produce in all ways, to battle as much as possible against time that drags us along, and the distractions that throw a veil over our soul.

  

  Eugene Delacroix
  • Soul
  • Desire
  • Outcome

• Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents.

  

  Charles Goodyear
  • Life

• Just when you think you're coming out and you think, 'OK, I see the light at the end of the tunnel,' then I got this diagnosis.

  

  Dana Reeve
  • Thinking
  • Coming
  • Diagnosis

• Just the desire to play a mom, wanting to play someone actually closer to who I am and where I am in my life. People are used to seeing me play the single, hot girl, which has been fun, but at the same time, this role is more akin to my natural proclivities.

  

  Essence Atkins
  • People
  • Fun
  • Girl

• I believe the adventure game genre will never die any more than any type of storytelling would ever die.

  

  Roberta Williams
  • Believe
  • Would
  • Storytelling

• I set out very calculatedly to become known. The only thing I maybe miscalculated was how easy it would be.

  

  Jim Valvano