Track Quotes - Page 5

• I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Railroads, Green, Next

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirling around on it.

  Robert Benchley

  Trying, Skins, Never Quit

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• I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track.

  Buffalo Bill

  Horse, Buffalo, Made

  Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.172, U of Nebraska Press

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• I don't need politicians doing a 24-hour prayer with Oral Roberts to get our country back on track.

  Lewis Black

  Country, Prayer, Needs

  Interview with Chris Mincher, www.avclub.com. May 20, 2008.

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• Don't solicit feedback on your product, idea or your business just for validation purposes. You want to tell the people who can help move your idea forward, but if you're just looking to your friend, co-worker, husband or wife for validation, be careful. It can stop a lot of multimillion-dollar ideas in their tracks in the beginning.

  Sara Blakely

  Husband, Moving, Validation

  "How to launch a dream business while working full time, by the women who did it" by Sejal Kapadia Pocha, www.stylist.co.uk.

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• God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.

  Robert Browning

  God, Justice, Delinquency

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.544, Wordsworth Editions

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• My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd.

  Dave Brubeck

  Dad, School, Years

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• It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on.

  Barbara Bush

  Car, Pool, Knows

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• To drive an F1 car you have to be a little mad. On the morning of a race there's a mix of excitement and fear. If it's a wet track, then it's worse as you're not in control most of the time, which is the thing all drivers fear the most.

  Jenson Button

  Morning, Race, Car

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• Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

  Lord Byron

  Steps, Glory, Graves

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.513, Delphi Classics

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• I don't think that growing up in the entertainment industry is the healthiest place for kids. The track record kind of shows that.

  Kirk Cameron

  Growing Up, Kids, Thinking

  "Kirk Cameron: I'll only kiss my wife" by Mike Celizic, www.today.com. September 23, 2008.

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• As I look around, I get this sinking feeling that we're off track, that there's something sick in the soul of our country. I examine the fruit that's hanging on the tree of America, and I can see that it's rotting. And that concerns me deeply.

  Kirk Cameron

  Country, Sinking Feeling, America

  "Kirk Cameron speaks at CPAC" by Caitlin MvDevitt, www.politico.com. February 9, 2012.

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• Dave Sim said in his latest thing of his, 'when you're on the right track, you'll know it, but until you get there, you have to believe you're on the right track'. Interesting little conundrum. It's not easy.

  Eddie Campbell

  Believe, Interesting, Littles

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• I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried being a hermit in the wilderness in New Zealand. I stayed in a warden's hut two-and-a-half hours off the Routeburn Track through the fjords on the South Island. It was early winter, so there was no electricity or running water.

  Jane Campion

  Running, Winter, Cutting

  "Jane Campion: 'I make films so I can have fun with the characters'". Interview with Peter Conrad, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2009.

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• McDonald's is almost 50 years old. For 47 years we had a pretty consistent track record of being able to deliver admirable sales.

  Jim Cantalupo

  Mcdonalds, Years, Records

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• And there is the headlight, shining far down the track, glinting off the steel rails that, like all parallel lines, will meet in infinity, which is after all where this train is going.

  Bruce Catton

  Shining, Steel, Lines

  Bruce Catton, Oliver Jensen (1993). “Bruce Catton's America: Selections from His Greatest Works”, Promontory

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• Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.

  Claude Chabrol

  Giving, Laying Down, Obvious

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• President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.

  Randy Neugebauer

  Decision, President, Records

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• Stubbornness and ignorance and determination are a very fine line from each other. I'm a very stubborn person, but not so stubborn that I can't learn new things and meet new people, but I have a one-track mind.

  Joe Nichols

  Determination, Ignorance, People

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• I wanted to play football or be a boxer, but my dad didn't want that because of all the impact. But in 1992 I was watching short track, and it was obscure, but they looked like superheroes in their tight outfits, and I thought it was amazing. I wanted to do that. I made the national team at 14.

  Apolo Ohno

  Football, Dad, Team

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• There was a time when I kept track of it all; when my mind worked like a giant lint brush being swept over the fuzzy surface of popular culture. But these days, pop culture seems to have gotten fuzzier and fuzzier; notoriety comes and goes in the snap of a finger.

  Susan Orlean

  Mind, Giants, Culture

  "William, Kate, and Justin Bieber" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. April 28, 2011.

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• Rather than saying, 'My checking account is a wreck,' change it to 'I will learn how to track my spending and balance my checkbook.'

  Suze Orman

  Balance, Wrecks, Spending

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• I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.

  Jesse Owens

  Motivational, Air, Feet

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've been lucky to have made a number of travel programmes with the BBC, the object being to see places off the beaten track. As a result, I've often had a guide who's been able to show me things that you wouldn't see with a tour group.

  Michael Palin

  Numbers, Groups, Lucky

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• Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever.

  Les Paul

  Beautiful, Thinking, Wife

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