My Way Quotes - Page 23

• I wouldn't totally rule out doing Letterman or the Tonight Show if I had a set that I just happened to write that I thought was funny but was still appropriate for network censors. But I'm
  not going to go out of my way.

  Joe Rogan

  Writing, Tonight, Way

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• Freed from the boundaries of time and space, I co-ordinate any and all points of the universe, wherever I want them to be. My way leads towards the creation of a fresh perception of the world. Thus I explain in a new way the world unknown to you.

  Dziga Vertov

  Space, Perception, World

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• I think I'm right-brained, incapable of managing my way out of a brown paper bag.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Thinking, Bags, Paper

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• My mother always told me if I really didn't wan to do something, if I was really tired, but if I had helped someone and I really went out of my way for them but I asked nothing for it, that I should donate my energy to the souls in purgatory-meaning that to give my goodness to those who are trapped. This is purgatory/limbo. This is a very Catholic thing that very few people really understand.

  Peter Steele

  Mother, Tired, People

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• I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.

  Erma Bombeck

  Fighting, Way, Vegetarian

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• I can’t explain how it is I keep having new ideas. But one book inevitably follows another. It is my way of exploring the known, the remembered, and the imagined, the literary triad of which all stories are made.

  Virginia Hamilton

  Book, Ideas, Stories

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• I'm going to do anything and everything, remove every boulder, every hurdle and every problem out of my way to make my dreams come true.

  Grant Cardone

  Dream, Boulders, Anything And Everything

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• I can't point to a single person or incident that changed my life, but the recognition that there is a certain world order, has been consequential. It has empowered me to do things my way. I found an inner truth by which I abide.

  Shari Arison

  Order, World, Way

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• I don't want to be typecast as the 'ambient guy' or someone who only does electronic scores. I think most of the work that comes my way is because people feel they know me musically.

  Cliff Martinez

  Thinking, People, Guy

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• So yes I know how angry, or naive, or self-destructive, or messed up, or even deluded I sound weaving my way through these life stories at times. But beautiful things. Graceful things. Hopeful things can sometimes appear in dark places.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Life, Beautiful, Dark

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• It's often women who are writing leading roles for women. Most of the stuff that comes my way is not actually about women. I'm just asked to be a supporting player in a story about a man, and I, frankly, was not interested in doing that.

  Carrie Coon

  Writing, Player, Men

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• Whatever be the depth of woe Along the path that I must go, I'll sing my song— My song of joy for all the love That's lavished on us from above, And count no loss of treasure-trove When things go wrong. I'll sing the sunlight, and the bright Soft smiling stars that gem the night; For gifts of good That God hath spread along my way, The lilt of birds in tuneful play, The harvests full and flowers gay, The whole day long I'll sing my song Of gratitude!

  John Kendrick Bangs

  Song, Gratitude, Stars

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• People think that I'm tough and strong and that I kicked my way through everything. But they are wrong. The truth is that when I was young I was adorable and a trembling wreck.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Strong, Thinking, Adorable

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• To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children.

  Erma Bombeck

  Family, Children, Thinking

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.71, Open Road Media

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• The best thing I have is the knife from Fatal Attraction. I hung it in my kitchen. It's my way of saying, Don't mess with me.

  Glenn Close

  Knives, Kitchen, Way

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• I felt that one of the things God impressed on me was that I needed to start a nonprofit corporation, so that any money that came my way, whether it was an honorarium, a book sale or a gift, would go into a nonprofit ministry.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Book, Ministry, Nonprofits

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• I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.

  A. S. Byatt

  Feelings, Mind, Different

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• Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.

  Karl Kraus

  Country, Ties, Patriotism

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• The bitter pinecone may be eaten, The mist on high give nourishment. The whole world takes to go-and-getting; My way alone is difficult.

  Du Fu

  Giving, Solitude, World

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• Walnuts have a shell, and they have a kernel. Religions are the same. They have an essence, but then they have a protective coating. This is not the only way to put it. But it's my way. So the kernels are the same. However, the shells are different.

  Huston Smith

  Essence, Different, Shells

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• I am looking at opening a school of social engineering. The McAfee School of Social Engineering has a nice ring to it. Beyond that, it is hard to say what life will bring my way.

  John McAfee

  Nice, School, Engineering

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• No man beholds his mother's womb Yet who denies it's there? Coiled To the navel of the world is that Endless cord that links us all To the great Origin. If I lose my way. The trailing cord will bring me to the roots.

  Wole Soyinka

  Mother, Men, Roots

  Wole Soyinka (1984). “Six Plays”, Methuen Drama

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• But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay;
  
  Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdame Study's blows;
  
  And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way.
  
  Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes,
  
  Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite:
  
  "Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.

  Philip Sidney

  Children, Writing, Heart

  'Astrophel and Stella' (1591) sonnet 1

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• I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.

  Jack Dee

  Reading, Light, Torches

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• I just hope I can spread some of the happiness that's been coming my way.

  Kenny Rogers

  Way, Spread, I Can

  Twitter post from Aug 08, 2015

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