Would Be Quotes - Page 31

• My advice to other female directors would be to pay no heed to naysayers. Women can be united in the fact that there has always been someone in our lives who has told us "it can't be done" or "there is only so much you can do." We are constantly encouraged to think that being born a woman means we were born with limited choices and compromised dreams.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Dream, Mean, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It's funny: half my films were flops, half did well. It would be terrible if I'd had only success.

  Claude Lelouch

  Half, Film, Terrible

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• If things aren't as successful as you thought they would be, sometimes that's not the worst thing that can happen. Sometimes that can be the best thing to push you in another direction that you were supposed to go in. Or to have an experience that you were supposed to have to grow.

  Erin Davie

  Successful, Sometimes, Being The Best

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It would be horrible if there was no competition. It's what people want to see - they either like you or they don't. Not everybody likes Van Gogh. Or Bob Dylan! So you have Neil Young...or Ozzy Osbourne.

  Kate Hudson

  People, Competition, Bob

  "Full of joie de vivre". The Journal Interview, www.thejournal.co.uk. September 19, 2003.

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• There are many people who enjoy animal based foods and who have no interest in changing the way they eat. And as you correctly pointed out, animal products are an integral part of some ethnic groups and societies and it would be nearly impossible for them to change thousands of years of traditional eating habits.

  Gary Player

  Animal, Years, People

  Source: blog.vegansa.com

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• I think that if people would be willing to grow some of their own food or eat locally grown organic foods on a regular basis we could significantly decrease the amount of harmful chemicals we pump into our soil every day.

  Gary Player

  Thinking, People, Pumps

  Source: blog.vegansa.com

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• I initially thought I was going to be a teacher. Maybe like an elementary teacher or something like that, which would be fun. Maybe someday.

  Tyler Oakley

  Teacher, Fun, Someday

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• To say that you can't see echoes of the past in what I do would be absurd. Everything that has preceded me has affected me.

  James Frey

  Past, Echoes, Absurd

  Interview with Toby Litt, tobylitt.wordpress.com. August 1, 2008.

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• It's just a natural progression. You're a player, then you're a coach, then you're general manager for the team, and then the next logical step for me and you would be [to become] team owner.

  Zakk Wylde

  Team, Player, Next

  Source: www.guitarmessenger.com

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• As a comedian I don't think they look at me as a sexual person but I can see where with actors it would be a little difficult for them because its part of their mystique, it gives them an easier time to change characters and people aren't going oh we have a gay actor, their gay so I don't know if I'm gunna buy this guy with this girl, its weird, I don't think it's fair; it's only done with us, it seems, like they just accept everyone as straight and go along with it and then its oh their gay and make a big deal out of it.

  Wanda Sykes

  Girl, Character, Gay

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• I did not always know I would be a writer. Until I had a room of my own, I did not write much at all - no more than any other child who read a lot of books. I began to write fiction and poetry when I first had a room that was truly my own with a door that shut and some measure, however fragile, of privacy.

  Marge Piercy

  Children, Book, Writing

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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• I never used golf as a job. I used it as a game. I always thought if I played the game well, my financial rewards would be there, but it came from, because I played well. But I had to play well to get the financial rewards.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Jobs, Golf, Games

  Source: www.augusta.com

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• To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest of your life.  It would be to cheat yourself of the pleasures of life.

  David McCullough

  Theatre, Literature, Rest Of Your Life

  Source: belmontvision.com

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• Unfortunately hip-hop is so competitive that in order for fringe groups to get in, you gotta be better than whoever's the best. So before Eminem, the idea that there would be a white rapper that anybody would really check for was fantastic or amazing or impossible.

  Talib Kweli

  Rapper, Order, Ideas

  "Talib Kweli Stands His Ground". Interview with AJ Vicens, www.motherjones.com. August 26, 2013.

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• At fifty. I thought I would be done. I thought I'd be finished by now. So I have no idea. I just leave it.

  Pat Benatar

  Ideas, Done, Fifty

  Interview with Jancee Dunn, www.believermag.com. May, 2003.

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• If I didn't even stand a chance of winning races and competing for the title, I don't think I would be that interested in continuing my career.

  Michael Schumacher

  Winning, Thinking, Race

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Of course, you're not making records in a vacuum. I'm not making them for myself. It would be nice if I could get more people to hear them. But if I have to sell my soul to the devil to do it, I won't.

  Pat Benatar

  Nice, People, Soul

  Interview with Jancee Dunn, believermag.com. May 1, 2003.

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• My husband and I have always incorporated things into our life that reduce stress. We're very careful with our health. We go to bed early. In this job, fatigue would be very detrimental! We've always eaten very healthily; now it's really particularly easy because we have a chef.

  Laura Bush

  Jobs, Husband, Stress

  "Laura Bush Wants to Save Your Life". Interview, www.glamour.com. January 3, 2008.

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• I just enjoy collaborating. I think there is always something to be learned, and I think that one could never collaborate enough - that would be impossible. So I am always excited and honored when someone wants to work with me.

  Jim James

  Thinking, Want, Impossible

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane.

  Larry Ellison

  Insane, Good Enough, Source

  Transcript: FT interview with Larry Ellison, www.ft.com. April 18, 2006.

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• I don't mind making a fool of myself. I felt like people would be accepting of that because, to me, that seems like an interesting way to do a show. I've always thought that it's interesting to watch people work things out on stage.

  Fiona Apple

  Interesting, People, Mind

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. October 7, 2013.

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• Musically, I want to graduate and become one of the greatest. You can't do that just spitting punchlines. I respect those people who say they love that old style, but it would be greedy of them to want me to stay that same person.

  Chamillionaire

  People, Style, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've had to learn kind of sense when the questions would be coming and be ready to handle them. There's a lot of education and reiteration that happens on these online channels and sometimes it's tempting to just say, "Well, just go and read the documentation," but you know, people appreciate being led along and taught and mentored.

  Larry Wall

  People, Appreciate, Documentation

  "How to Code Like Larry Wall". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• When World War II came along, which was when I was a teenager, we all expected we would have anthrax bombs and this kind of stuff. We thought it would be a biological war. Fortunately it wasn't and, but it's because the danger is still there and by some miracle we escaped all that, so you never can tell what it going to happen, but biology certainly could be even worse than physics and chemistry.

  Freeman Dyson

  War, Teenager, Miracle

  "Could Science Make the 21st Century Worse Than the 20th?". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 5, 2010.

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• I made very sure that I did not get involved with any of the commercial Linux companies, exactly so that I would be neutral and not ever seen as "working for the competition".

  Linus Torvalds

  Competition, Linux, Made

  "A Conversation With Linus Torvalds, Who Built The World's Most Robust Operating System And Gave It Away For Free". Interview with Dylan Love, www.businessinsider.com. June 7, 2014.

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