Richard Marx Quotes

I think I do better when things are a little tougher.

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• You can never plan the future by the past.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Future
  • Past
  • Plan

• Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Work
  • Real
  • Done

• We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.

  

  J.P. Rangaswami
  • Information
  • Farmers
  • Were

• There is always safety in valor.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Always
  • Safety
  • Valor

• Pops played football for LSU. Ever since I can remember, I've been working with him running routes and stuff.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Remember
  • Running
  • Football

• I run away from super-bandage-style Herve Leger dresses. I think it's sexier for a woman to be in something sheer and loose.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Think
  • Style
  • Woman

• Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Business
  • Job
  • Government

• On a more practical level, anyone out there who wants to be a writer should clearly recognize that this is a brutal business, where even incredibly talented people sometimes never make a living. If you want to chase such a dream, please have a Plan B in place.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • People
  • Business
  • Dream

• I really do not care if it is a B-movie or not.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Movie
  • Care
  • Really

• There's nothing wrong with showing sexuality. If you have that inside, it's just an expression of who you are. If you want to share that with people, that's amazing. I love that.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• If a thing seems to you worth working for at all, if it appears to you of moment enough to challenge any effort, then put into what you do all the enthusiasm of which you are capable, regardless of criticism.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Challenge
  • Effort
  • Moment

• Just, you know, you can't put bread in a cold oven. You know, you've got to take your time. You've got to heat it up. So that's what, that's what I like to do with my music. I like to build it, and build it into a maddening, exciting crescendo.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • World
  • America
  • Jazz

• You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a women's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.

  

  O. Henry
  • Women
  • Money
  • Home

• Don't bail. The best of the gold’s at the bottom of barrels of crap.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Gold

• It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...

  

  Larry Wall
  • Book

• I was a little boy with a patch over one eye, who sang and danced along the street. I had what’s called a lazy eye, so I had to wear the patch. You tend to be a prodded kind of kid when you look like that, but it makes you much stronger in the end.

  

  Holly Johnson Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  • Boy
  • Lazy

• I think it is up to the judge to say what the Constitution provided, even if what it provided is not the best answer, even if you think it should be amended. If that's what it says, that's what it says.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • Up
  • Judge

• I'm a chronicler of Negroland, a participant-observer, an elegist, dissenter, and admirer; sometime expatriate, ongoing interlocutor.

  

  Margo Jefferson

• I ask you to join in a re-United States. We need to empower our people so they can take more responsibility for their own lives in a world that is ever smaller, where everyone counts.... We need a new spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together, or the American Dream will continue to wither. Our destiny is bound up with the destiny of every other American.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • People
  • Responsibility
  • American Dream

• These companies are in it for their dollars, and whatever is hot that is what they follow.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Follow
  • Hot
  • Whatever

• As I get older, I plan less, and I strategize less about my career and about things because you realize things happen as they're supposed to happen and the way they're supposed to happen.

  

  Jonathan Jackson
  • Career

• I think I do better when things are a little tougher.

  

  Richard Marx