Day To Day Quotes - Page 16

For me, comedy is a day-to-day report on the human condition. It's what's happening right now. I get maybe 20 minutes of my act straight from the newspaper.

Elayne Boosler

Comedy, Newspapers, Minutes

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In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.

Les Brown

Communication, People, Bait

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I don't even know if I have kind of a personal, like a take or a mental manual of how I'm raising kids. It's really - I think with everybody, it's just day-to-day and you just try to deal with every situation as they come.

Steve Carell

Kids, Thinking, Trying

"Steve Carell Interview - EVAN ALMIGHTY". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. June 19, 2007.

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That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

Lewis Carroll

Lessons, Reason

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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Beautiful, Wisdom, Jobs

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We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security.

Stephen Harper

Government, States, Handle

"Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 29, 2009.

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How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!

Max Muller

Beautiful, Thinking, May

Max Muller (1912). “Memories”

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My job is to be a spokesman - the spokesman, I suppose - for the President, for the White House, to do the daily briefings, to manage the press corps in terms of travel, day-to-day needs, access, interviews, all those issues.

Dee Dee Myers

Travel, Jobs, White

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I'm always mystified by the day-to-day workings of entities like Twitter that provide framework but not content, but I suppose it could be compared to the U.S. Postal Service, which manages to keep a lot of people employed doing lots of stuff other than writing letters.

Susan Orlean

Writing, People, Letters

"Good Fortune" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. March 20, 2011.

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It has never made any sense to argue that, unique among the people of the world, Arabs are more concerned on a day-to-day basis about the treatment of people they don't know than they are about how they're going to put food on their own tables, or whether their sons will ever find a job.

John Podhoretz

Jobs, Son, Unique

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All I did from day-to-day is coach. That's what my job was, that's what my passion was, and the fact that now it's something I'm being considered for is just mind-blowing to me, that I would ever be in that kind of company.

Pat Riley

Jobs, Passion, Mind Blowing

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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

Tony Robbins

Appreciation, Time, Years

Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

J. K. Rowling

Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ch. 12 (1997)

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Think ahead. Don't let day-to-day operations drive out planning.

Donald Rumsfeld

Thinking, Planning Ahead, Time Management

Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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I do think there was a period there when my sanity was under intense pressure, and I didn't know what to say or do or how to act. I was literally living from day to day.

Salman Rushdie

Thinking, Pressure, Sanity

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One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.

George Sand

Reality, Years, Altered

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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'

Haile Selassie

Events, Becoming, Problem

Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

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With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

Marilyn Monroe

Ideas, Survival, Important

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There's so much we can't express in our day-to-day interaction with people because it's considered inappropriate. And acting is all about being inappropriate.

Wentworth Miller

People, Acting, Inappropriate

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Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life.

Ernie Harwell

Baseball, Opportunity, Existence

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My web site is so fresh. The paint is still wet, but stay tuned, because I have lots of personal things, specifically about what is happening day-to-day, that I will keep updating daily.

David Hasselhoff

Paint, Site, Stills

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Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.

Marilu Henner

Stress, Control Of Your Life, Keys

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Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, when it comes, will only be a small outward confirmation of what has been accomplished within me from day to day.

Etty Hillesum

Love, Real, Farewell

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I understand human needs. I grew up where far too many people lived day to day without elemental needs like food and shelter.

Naveen Jain

People, Needs, Shelter

"Tips for Entrepreneurial Philanthropy" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2011.

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I have a lot of money stashed away, but I do live my life from day to day.

Elton John

Living My Life, Lots Of Money

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