High Quotes
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All good qualities must be sown and cultivated. We can’t expect to change overnight from an ordinary person into one with high realizations.
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I'll take what I can get when I go high with a hook, but the side of the head makes a big target, especially if his hands are down.
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If I had to do a lot of promotion as a kid, it would have been very intense. I'm really glad I got to go through high school, have a college experience, and have the last five years since then, just... being a person.
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On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.
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My mother has a very chic sense of style, but she also has high expectations for her clothes to be functional and practical.
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Cutting taxes for very high income people an average of more than $100,000 a year for people that make more than a million dollars a year is not an effective way to get the economy going.
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There was no theater program or anything where I'm from. So junior year in high school I started the theater program.
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It's a little cheeky; growing up in Santa Fe was kind of a weird experience, because it's such a touristy town. So sometimes it feels a little like you're in a town that's just on display. You walk around downtown and all the shops are galleries or high end boutiques, so it can feel like you don't belong there even though you are from there.
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Big success requires big sacrifices. Don't find out later that the cost was too high. Denial is said to be even more potent than cocaine; neither drug enhances your marketability.
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A pre-nup is an insurance policy or, in brokerage terms, a short hedge - meant to mitigate a high-risk investment. It safeguards the love-struck from their own poor judgment of character.
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Not everyone has to be a high-powered neurosurgeon to add significantly to the equation that brings about success here.
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I have high expectations of my audience, and in general, I would say they've met that.
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I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things.
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I had really bad grades in high school and didn't want to go to college, and my dad said, 'Why don't you move to L.A. or New York and pursue music? You've always been good at it.' It was the first thing that made sense to me and... It was the right move.
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I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions to this day, but it wasn't until high school when I started acting in plays that it became a thought of something I might want to do. And when I applied to colleges, at NYU, I was able to study both writing and acting.
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If I wasn't serving in Congress, I've always wanted to be a high school teacher. Specifically, I want to teach a course on modern American history and use Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury as a primary text.
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My goals are so high that I don't have time to relax in any way, shape or form.
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I have a very high expectation for everything I do. And when I go out and compete, I expect myself to make every play.
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My mother would say, before I left the house, 'Remember Art, hugs are better than drugs.' And I believed my mother, I believed everything she said - until the first time I got high at a party. I leaned back, and I went, 'God, this is way better than when my Uncle Perry hugs me. What else has my mother been lying to me about?
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Football is a more beautiful game in high definition.
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For me, depression is very much tied to my feeling that so much is being asked of me. I have to 'perform' rather than necessarily be myself. I have to perform a perfect Margo Jefferson, at an impossibly high level.
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My mom and dad used to tell me, 'You've got to see this film,' and they were influential to a high degree of the films I saw as a kid.
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I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle.
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I feel like I'd be a really good teacher. I would go for middle school... those high schoolers would be difficult to deal with.
