And last, my mom. I don’t think you know what you did. You had my brother when you were 18 years old. Three years later, I came out. The odds were stacked against us. Single parent with two boys by the time you were 21 years old. Everybody told us we weren’t supposed to be here.
KEVIN DURANTI’m going to go do this crazy thing. I’m going to start this company selling books online.
More Jeff Bezos Quotes
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I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
AIMEE BENDER -
I was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no one really gave a damn if I was shy or not, and I got over my shyness.
LUCILLE BALL -
The invisible carnage of the unf-ed wives and the children not being read to is just wafting out.
BRADLEY WHITFORD -
To know ahead of time what you’re looking for means you’re then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.
DOROTHEA LANGE -
Sometimes joy hides in forgotten places.
MAKENZIE CAMPBELL -
People will go for anything they don’t understand if it’s got enough hype.
MILES DAVIS -
Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN -
Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won’t think you’re going gaga.
DAVID OGILVY -
Most of us are far too busy for our own spiritual good.
BILL HYBELS -
She doesn’t feel like crying anymore.
E. LOCKHART -
Usually when I’m writing, I try to write fairly quickly. If a song sits around too long, it starts to take on a stink.
BILLY JOEL -
If you start watching the oldies, you’re in trouble. I feel ancient if “Grand Hotel” or “The Bride Wore Red” comes on. I have a sneaking regard for “Mildred Pierce”, but the others do nothing for me.
JOAN CRAWFORD -
Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness.
SABRINA CARPENTER -
Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that ‘s why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I’m just roaming around, vagabonding.
CARLOS SANTANA -
I’m not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren’t perfect.
BETTE MIDLER -
We don’t live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.
JOHN ELDREDGE -
There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth’s burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.
O. HENRY -
I’m not particularly intellectual or clever or minority-focused in my creative instincts.
ROWAN ATKINSON -
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD -
I don’t want to set the world up for surprises.
BARRY DILLER -
Women’s Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer.
CALVIN KLEIN -
There’s nothing so freeing as going to rehearsal and having that experience.
ZACHARY QUINTO -
But there’s certainly only one thing I could never agree with George Galloway on. He’s a teetotaller and wants to close all the bars in the House of Commons. That is just not on.
NIGEL FARAGE -
A decision should be made because it aligns with your soul. Not culture.
MORGAN LOVE -
Speech is a powerful master and achieves the most divine feats with the smallest and least evident body. It can stop fear, relieve pain, create joy, and increase pity.
GORGIAS -
When people think of the word ‘drive,’ they often think you have it or you don’t, and that’s where we’re wrong.
ANGELA DUCKWORTH