Bernard Baruch Quotes

I'm not smart. I try to observe. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.

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• My boy and I move. We have this game where if we dress in a particular item of clothing, we have to do a different movement. A hat means 20 jumps - that sort of thing. When I put a scarf on, my son has to drop down and do push-ups, immediately. He thinks it's really funny.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Different
  • Game
  • Funny

• I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.

  

  Kate Moss
  • You
  • Never
  • Look

• I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Parents
  • Wish
  • Guilt

• I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Hate
  • Husband

• A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.

  

  Sacha Guitry
  • Pretty
  • Man
  • Woman

• The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.

  

  Earl Monroe
  • Game
  • Basketball
  • Image

• The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Impossible

• I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Think
  • Photography
  • General

• I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Small

• It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • True
  • Struggle
  • Famous

• There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Dreams
  • Comeback
  • Second Chance

• Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.

  

  Becky G
  • Music
  • Speak
  • Listen

• I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Friends
  • Help
  • Christian

• Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Success
  • Relationship
  • Professional

• Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Never
  • Vision
  • Look

• Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Progress
  • Healthy
  • Prelude

• I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Job
  • Cancer
  • Mission

• I never played the 'decoration,' I always played the one who suffered. And then I got very lucky in my middle career, when I started playing the hero, which at that point was quite rare for women.

  

  Tyne Daly
  • Women
  • Career
  • Hero

• I grew up born and raised in Las Vegas and actually grew up skiing. You know, we've got some ski resorts close to Las Vegas, up in Mount Charleston or Brian Head, so I grew up skiing and snowboarding.

  

  Amy Purdy
  • Up
  • Vegas
  • Skiing

• If I can create an atmosphere to make my job easier and your confidence less, why not?

  

  Bernard Hopkins
  • Why
  • Job
  • Confidence

• A lot of the reasons why something is a favorite thing are all things you don't necessarily see, the place, the people, the time, where you are, what it meant to you at the time.

  

  Jeffrey Jones
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • People
  • Fall
  • Easy

• I'm not smart. I try to observe. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.

  

  Bernard Baruch
  • Why
  • Fall
  • Smart