Martina McBride Quotes
I definitely feel a difference about my place in the industry. I feel like I have some longevity now.
Quotes to Explore
-
If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
-
We must strive to become good ancestors.
-
The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.
-
I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.
-
The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.
-
Schmoozers are brownnosers, sycophants more suited to middle management than to the Wild West of the entrepreneurial world.
-
When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'
-
I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.
-
It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
-
I think it's a problem when something's a dream because it'll never live up to your expectations. It's better to go somewhere thinking it'll be horrible, and then be pleasantly surprised.
-
When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.
-
If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.
-
I'm street smart. You can't con me. But that's just from living in New York. Now if a guy came from Mississippi somewhere, Ohio somewhere, to New York City for the first time, he don't have the street smarts. You can take him.
-
Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
-
In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and then close his mouth all the way. I tried it but could get only two in there.
-
I think I'm attracted to writers who tell us something about ourselves.
-
You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
-
There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.
-
So the way to express the goal is this? Increase throughput while simultaneously reducing both inventory and operating expense.
-
To me, a purely good individual or purely bad individual, that's a comic book – that's a fantasy – and I don't do fantasy.
-
We're very good at telling what happens and showing people while it happens... But sometimes television fails to take the time to say 'Why did it happen? What does it mean?' - To step back a little bit.
-
Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage; there's no betrayal of trust.
-
I definitely feel a difference about my place in the industry. I feel like I have some longevity now.
