Chuck Knox Quotes

I knew I could make a good living working in the mills, ... I decided I didn't want to fuss with the rest of it, so I hitch-hiked back home.

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• I grew up on films.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Up
  • Films
  • Grew

• I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Work
  • Everything
  • Just

• What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Know
  • Stand

• In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I'm not writing I start thinking I can't do it.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Long

• Clearly, humans will always have a role to play in emergency response for law enforcement. But if there's an emergency, if there's a 911 call, the question is, do you want a human dashing off to respond to it right away?

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Law
  • Question
  • Play

• I don't like a lot of rehearsing.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Like
  • Lot
  • Rehearsing

• You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Believe
  • Truth

• For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Comedy
  • Richer
  • Larger

• What you see is what you get.

  

  Van Morrison
  • You
  • See
  • Get

• Death is the beginning of something.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Death
  • Beginning
  • Something

• As an entrepreneur and mother, I support the need to put women at the center, recognizing their crucial impact on social development and their important role of balancing family and professional responsibilities.

  

  Yelena Baturina
  • Important
  • Women
  • Family

• Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Beautiful
  • Freedom
  • Speak

• I always feel I have to take a stand,And there's always someone on handTo hate me for standing there.I always feel I have to open my mouth,And every time I do, I offend someone, somewhere.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Time
  • Hate

• Vice cannot be removed completely, nor is it right that it should be removed.

  

  Chrysippus

• I haven't got a very sweet tooth, but I love salted things like nuts. I would have to be dragged in by a lorry if I ate as many salted peanuts as I would like to.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Sweet

• I think the reason why a lot of the Spanish films do so well, and are so well done, is because the public really respects it and wants it.

  

  Paula Garces
  • Done
  • Why
  • Spanish

• Empowering women in the workforce is a key to growing the economy and having a thriving middle class.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
  • Women
  • Growing
  • Empowering

• I thought, 'What if I were 17, and it was my small town of Springhill, Louisiana? How would I feel if people started flooding in to see some bird?'

  

  John Corey Whaley
  • People
  • Small
  • Bird

• Every fictional thing I wrote gave me strength to write another and another. By the end I wasn't remaining true to anything but the story I wanted to tell.

  

  Lily King
  • True
  • Story
  • Fictional

• I love to design and remodel houses, from working with the contractors to picking the colours, materials, kitchen and bathroom accessories to finally what furniture goes where.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Design
  • Working
  • Houses

• There isn't a lot of work in Australia. I think that's why everyone comes over to America to find jobs and pilots and things, because there's not enough work to justify staying there, unfortunately. Like, I wish there was. I would love to stay home and be working with my family around the corner, but the work just isn't there.

  

  Phoebe Tonkin
  • Work
  • Family
  • Why

• But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you've got going on at home that's no excuse ... Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No one's written your destiny for you. Here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Up
  • Money

• I knew I could make a good living working in the mills, ... I decided I didn't want to fuss with the rest of it, so I hitch-hiked back home.

  

  Chuck Knox
  • Home
  • Working
  • Mills