Cobi Jones Quotes

You want to teach the next generation so they can learn a little bit faster and a little bit more so everything becomes that much better.

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• Because there are so many shows on and because I've been so hands-on - I've had a piece on almost every single week - I don't know how to cut back on that. You really can't.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • You
  • Know
  • Single

• In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Country
  • Lost

• I've never paid too much attention to what other people have said or to what other people have tried to make me be. I've always just tried to be myself, which is such a weird thing to say.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • People
  • Attention
  • Myself

• When anyone recognizes you on the street, they are always very nice and genuine and excited to meet you.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Nice
  • Always
  • Street

• As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • World
  • Live
  • Words

• I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having no one to share them with.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Myself

• We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Monsters
  • Competing
  • id

• I got interested in decathlon because a coach that I had was a big fan of Bruce Jenner, and he just saw the ability in me - but when it came down to it, I knew my best chance at a college scholarship would be in track and field.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • College
  • Best
  • Chance

• Aside from rabid Islamists, no one who wishes to be taken seriously can publicly say anything bad about the old Jews of Europe without sounding like reactionary troglodytes.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Bad
  • Taken
  • Old

• I come from a mixed family, where my mother is art house cinema and my father is B-movie genre cinema. They're estranged, and I've been trying to bring them together for all of my career to one degree or another.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Trying
  • Family
  • Art

• The true work of God is all good, since it is existence.

  

  Maimonides
  • Good
  • Work
  • God

• Kerchak was dead. Withdrawing the knife that had so often rendered him master of far mightier muscles than his own, Tarzan of the Apes placed his foot upon the neck of his vanquished enemy, and once again, loud through the forest rang the fierce, wild cry of the conqueror.And thus came the young Lord Greystoke into the kingship of the Apes.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Enemy
  • Forest
  • Fierce

• Mullah Faizullah: It wasn't your fault,Mariam. Don't think this way. This will destroy you, my girl. It wasn't your fault.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • Girl

• Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • People

• If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.

  

  Aneurin Bevan
  • Freedom
  • Poverty

• What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love?

  

  John Adams

• Love passed, the Muse appeared, the weatherof mind got clarity new-found;now free, I once more weave togetheremotion, thought, and magic sound.

  

  Alexander Pushkin
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Magic

• Friendship is often outgrown; and his former child’s clothes will no more fit a man than some of his former friendships.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Friendship
  • Friendships

• Yet seldom do they fail of their seed, And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and places unlooked-for. The deeds of Men will outlast us.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Men
  • Fail
  • Deeds

• I think by definition you need to have lived a little bit to write anything that's humanly true.

  

  Richard K. Morgan
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Definitions

• Love makes fools of us all, big and little.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Love
  • Fool
  • Bigs

• One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Nice
  • Enough
  • Grace

• You want to teach the next generation so they can learn a little bit faster and a little bit more so everything becomes that much better.

  

  Cobi Jones