Jim Croce Quotes

If you dig it, do it. If you dig it a lot, do it twice.

Jim Croce

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• One of the things I like best about Netflix is that they make projects like 'Beasts of No Nation.' It's a film about a reality in an African country where kids were being used to be soldiers in a war. And it made so much sense to me as a citizen of the world.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • World
  • Country
  • Kids

• Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Long
  • Career

• I'm hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Text
  • Phone
  • Hopeless

• If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Power
  • City
  • Responsibility

• Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Money
  • Best
  • Wealth

• I love writing two narratives! I think concurrent storylines are my favorite way to write a book.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Book

• In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Political
  • Leadership
  • Presidential

• I want to be remembered like Pete Rose. 'Charlie Hustle.' I want people to say, 'Wherever he was, he was always giving it his all.'

  

  Walter Payton
  • People
  • Giving
  • Rose

• 'Love Letter' is a concept album, and whenever I do a concept album - and I love doing concept albums more than any other kind of album - it allows me to get dressed, in a way, musically.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Way
  • Kind
  • Letter

• As soon as science has solved one problem, new ones arise. This is the essence of science, and it applies, of course, also to the field of essential oils.

  

  Otto Wallach
  • Science
  • Problem
  • New

• I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Great
  • Destiny
  • Geography

• Sex is emotion in motion.

  

  Mae West
  • Sex
  • Emotion
  • Motion

• We often operate effectively on the physical battleground but not on the psychological battleground. We fail to communicate our resolve.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Communicate
  • Physical
  • Often

• I've never associated myself with other singers, certainly not female singers.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Singers

• Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the '30s, East Germany in the '50s, Czechoslovakia in the '60s, the Latin American dictatorships in the '70s, China in the '80s and '90s - all dictatorships and would-be dictators target newspapers and journalists.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • American
  • Latin
  • China

• The laws of logic do not prescribe the way our minds think; they prescribe the way our minds ought to think.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Logic

• 'How strange,' continued the king, with some asperity; 'the police think that they have disposed of the whole matter when they say, 'A murder has been committed,' and especially so when they can add, 'And we are on the track of the guilty persons.''

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • King
  • Police
  • Guilty

• The Germans always had difficulties with their identity. Either it was too much and too loud, or it was hidden and too subservient. The French always had a healthy self-confidence. When they spoke of a 'grande nation' it was not dangerous. De Gaulle could say on Martinique: 'Behind me is the ocean. In front of me is France'.

  

  Anselm Kiefer
  • Confidence
  • Identity
  • Ocean

• I believe that there is much less difference between the author and his works than is currently supposed; it is usually in the physical appearance of the writer,--his manners, his mien, his exterior,--that he falls short of the ideal a reasonable man forms of him--rarely in his mind.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Mind
  • Author
  • I Believe

• I'd worked with directors who wouldn't collaborate. Then I've also worked with directors who didn't really know what they wanted. I knew I didn't want to be either one of those guys - or girls.

  

  Stuart Townsend
  • Wanted
  • Directors
  • Collaborate

• I always thought it was a goat that kicked me over the fence. My mama told me the other day it was a cow. Now I'm sort of scared of both.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • Fence

• If I look at my make-up, Canada is a huge part of what I am.

  

  Claire Messud
  • Up

• Let your dreams be bigger than your fears and your actions louder than your words.

  

  Christine Caine
  • Dream
  • Action
  • Bigger

• If you dig it, do it. If you dig it a lot, do it twice.

  

  Jim Croce