Kevin Costner Quotes

I don't take much stock in other people's opinions if I think something's good.

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• It's just a blessing from above. I can't stress that enough, because I don't feel like it's anything that I've done. For me to say, 'Well, it's because of this, this and that is why I've been able to play,' it's just a lie. I couldn't tell you why.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Done
  • Why
  • Stress

• Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • City
  • Play
  • New York

• I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Children
  • Night
  • Affairs

• People fight today for the same fundamental reasons the Greek historian Thucydides identified nearly 2,500 years ago: fear, honor, and interest.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • People
  • Today
  • Fear

• If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.

  

  Calvin Peete
  • Golf
  • Jewelry
  • Sugar

• I do know that I've read somewhere that it's been statistically proven that in times of war, horror films are much more popular. I don't know why that is. You'd think it'd be the opposite. You'd think people would want to escape from it.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • People
  • Why
  • War

• My resume, my career, and my legacy in this sport means more to me then collecting some checks.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Career
  • Legacy
  • Sport

• I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Nations
  • Mother`s
  • Wars

• The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Play
  • Poverty
  • Lifting

• This is probably going to surprise people, but if you were to do a scan around the globe on public policy concerning our industry, you would probably have to conclude that the United States has the policy that has been, I believe, the most pro competition.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Competition

• I enjoy my work too much to force-feed myself with pressure.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Enjoy

• A free, analytical and questioning press must be helped survive.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Free
  • Survive
  • Questioning

• I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And it's not that I'm a slow learner and it took me this long; I also was enjoying writing, and I still enjoy writing - I get tremendous satisfaction out of the writing end of it.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Job

• Although there's a lot of focus on the Lib Dems, we need to keep our eyes on the far right of the Tories, who I suspect will become increasingly impatient in their appetite for tax cuts, deregulation and shrinking the state even further.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Eyes
  • Focus
  • Tax

• The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Great
  • War
  • Peace

• I didn't get any crazy sponsors. I don't have any extra sponsors since I got the belt.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Crazy
  • Got
  • Belt

• There has been a failure to grasp how competing narratives fight for the attention of angry young Muslims, and we have grossly underestimated the appeal of the jihadist brand.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Attention
  • Failure
  • Fight

• I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Career
  • Focus
  • Pleasure

• Anxiety grew, the fear that always comes when an established pattern falters.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Fear
  • Anxiety

• A close friend of mine, Annie Leibovitz, who I've known for forty years, photographs celebrities every single day of the week but they all seem to look the same even though she's one of the most creative photographers alive. They all just look the same. Brad Pitt is a great actor but all the pictures of Brad Pitt look the same.

  

  Lawrence Schiller
  • Great
  • She
  • Single

• I was an English major in college who concentrated in African-American literature and culture. So I read quite a few slave narratives and stories of escape, and I grew up in Ohio, which was a common stop on the Underground Railroad.

  

  John Roger Stephens
  • Up
  • American
  • Culture

• My main piece of advice would be don't worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also don't be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and don't be afraid.

  

  David Levithan
  • Good
  • Book
  • Bad

• When herding behaviour among investors ramps up, a stock's or index's growth rate can increase faster than exponentially, leading to more herding. This positive feedback brings the system to a tipping point. About two-thirds of the time, a crash results.

  

  Didier Sornette
  • Up
  • Time
  • Positive

• I don't take much stock in other people's opinions if I think something's good.

  

  Kevin Costner
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