Ahmad Jamal Quotes
You've got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you're gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn't work that way.Ahmad Jamal
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
Valentina Zelyaeva -
There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
Kate McKinnon -
Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
Naval Ravikant -
Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
Abraham Verghese -
We continue to blame the poor for their own condition. They are lazy. We do not want to know that the poorest of the poor are toddlers under three years of age.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
V. S. Naipaul -
The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
Victor Hugo -
When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
Jack Finney -
I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
Mads Mikkelsen -
There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
Ted Williams -
My dad is always there for me, and no matter how busy, he always makes it a point to answer my calls. I think he knows what is best for me better than me and is very involved in planning my career. Feel blessed to have a dad like him.
Ram Charan
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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
Fidel Castro -
People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
Aaron Paul -
We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
Flora Lewis -
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
Dalai Lama -
I think every business, really, has a unique reason for being, unique assets, unique attributes, a unique history. And that can be turned into a very attractive design story, essentially, that consumers can relate to.
Yves Behar -
Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.
Jack Canfield
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The old man made himself look hard at the Raven and saw that it was not a great bird from the sky but the work of men like himself. This first encounter turned out to be peaceful. The men of the La PĂ©rouse expedition were under strict orders to treat with respect any people they might discover, an exceptional policy for its time and after.
Carl Sagan -
I made a dollar a day sweeping a laundry out. Then we made a record that was number two in Los Angeles. We got so excited hearing it on the radio that Carl threw up.
Dennis Wilson -
As artists, when you have people that care about what you do, I think you should care about those people who care about what you do, and give them really cool interactive experiences to make them feel appreciated.
Zachary Levi -
No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake.
Walter Lang -
That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
Christopher Marlowe -
You've got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you're gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn't work that way.
Ahmad Jamal