O Quotes
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“One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.”
“One thing about bureaucrats is that they never swallow their young. Leave them alone and you'll find them increasing every year.”
“One thing about championship teams is that they're resilient. No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.”
Source: How Good Do You Want to Be?: A Champion's Tips on How to Lead and Succeed at Work and in Life
“One thing about children is that you can choose to make or break them. I choose to allow them to be the very best versions of themselves.”
“One thing about cold weather: it brings out the statistician in everyone.”
Source: The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
“One thing about dead people, they're all the same.”
“One thing about everything that I've done is it's so diverse and all over the place, from doing crazy stunts that I can't believe that I've done to launching professional skateboard leagues to all types of different business stuff and television shows. To me, I'm real proud of the body of work, that I've done as opposed to one thing specifically.”
“One thing about excellence, it&Mac226;s an exclusive club. And it&Mac226;s only for those who really want to pay dues to the s--. My daddy told me when I was a boy: The only way you can be different from other people is to do some s-- they don't want to do.”
“One thing about failing repeatedly: If you're still doing it after you've failed that much, you really mean it.”
“One thing about flying that he never got used to was that no matter how awful the weather was on the ground, if you flew high enough you could always find the sun.”
Source: The Hunt for Red October
“One thing about Germany - they'll be organised, they'll be big and they'll be strong.”
“One thing about God's will, you can never see God's will before it happens. You can only see at the end of it.”
“One thing about golf is you don't know why you play bad and why you play good.”
“One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions.”
Source: Juliet, Naked
“One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed to, if you thought about it.”
“One thing about ground balls: they don't go out of the ballpark.”
“One thing about Guantánamo, beyond anything else, is the commitment against all odds to allow Americans to view themselves as the good guy, no matter what the situation is.”
“One thing about hanging out with a baby is that you can remember a little bit better what it was like to be a kid, and all the mystery that came along with it.”
“One thing about hanging out with a bunch of clean drug addicts, everyone is just super similar to you. So that has been awesome. I've made a lot of friends who are coming from an extremely similar place, even if they seem externally very different. I know I am an outsider in a number of ways, but I don't feel weird.”
“one thing about having a baby is that each step of the way you simply cannot imagine loving him any more than you already do, because you are bursting with love, loving as much as you are humanly capable of- and then you do, you love him even more.”
Source: Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
“One thing about having mostly absent parents that I think was perhaps "good" for the development of my intellect/writing is that I was given almost total freedom to read/write/look at whatever I wanted. I wonder a lot about how my past experiences, particularly my negative childhood (home life and being severely bullied/ostracized throughout school) as formed my/my thoughts/my writing, though I should also note those things were far from the only thing that had an impact on me/my writing.”
“One thing about humans is that we all have them - lifestories. We live by and through them. But writers of memoir are particularly good at bringing literary strategies and form to experience (at least the good ones are).”
“One thing about Kane - he never did anything by halves.”
Source: Ruthless Game
“One thing about Kurt [Cobain] is before he was a musician, and before he was a rock star, he was an artist, and an artist with a capital A. What that means is that he had to create. It wasn't something that he chose to do - it chose him.”
“One thing about London is that when you step out into the night, it swallows you.”
“One thing about me I'm nothing like them”
“One thing about me is I try to be honest.”
“One thing about me is that I have a really good sense of direction. Mom and Dad always say they don’t need a map when I’m around. I almost always know when I’m heading the wrong way.”
Source: The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
“One thing about me, when I make a decision about something, I realize when you make choices in life, that dictates your life.”
“One thing about mildly dyslexic people - they're good at setting everything else aside to pursue one goal.”
“One thing about my mother is that she has her taste: She knows what she likes and what looks good. It's not studied. There is no insecurity in what she is going to wear, and I think that translates into effortlessness. Her career has been a steady rise, and it hasn't been about the fashion of the moment. It's been because she has kept to her style. She didn't go grunge when it was grunge, or 70's when it was 70's. It's about being secure with what you like and not worrying about what's in fashion that particular day. That's what I admire about her.”
“One thing about New York is you can understand how you're perceived really easily if you just get on the train, by the way people look at you. But there's still an anonymity in it.”
“One thing about open source is that even the failures contribute to the next thing that comes up. Unlike a company that could spend a million dollars in two years and fail and there's nothing really to show for it, if you spend a million dollars on open source, you probably have something amazing that other people can build on.”
“One thing about other people, when they come to the gym, they might waste time wrapping hands, doing stretching and things. I don't like that. If I come to the gym, if one hour - all work. If two hours - all. I don't want to do this stuff so I can stay like two hours in the gym training only one hour. I want to do my own - quick, quick.”
“One thing about our mind... we can’t escape it. Therefore, whatever uncontrollable thoughts that God places there, we have to live with them. I don’t try to think a certain way, I just submitted to it.
You can try to go against your gift of thought, but when it starts to take your peace or happiness, you’ll submit.”
Source: True Blue
“One thing about our show that wasn't even in my awareness, but was brought to my attention by other people, is that our show is about these love-based relationships. Even though the characters are obviously going through different conflicts, you can really feel that the characters love each other. And they really try their best.”
“One thing about pain: It proves you're alive.”
“One thing about pioneers that you don't hear mentioned is that they are invariably, by their nature, mess-makers. They go forging ahead, seeing only their noble, distant goal, and never notice any of the crud and debris they leave behind them.”
“One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.”
“One thing about prejudices -- once you break one of them, you're screwed, because then they all have got to go.”
“One thing about religious truths is that we have to take them on faith, and faith needs reassurance. What’s more reassuring than noticing that some other people, whom you admire, are so certain that it’s all true that they’re willing to go the ultimate mile?”
“One thing about school - I always had this attitude that I was in school to learn, and attempted to do whatever was involved in that process, while school had this attitude that I was there to earn grades, which I couldn't care less about. Unsurprisingly, my grades weren't very good.”
“One thing about skating that I don't think people focus on enough is the music factor. The music is a huge component of figure skating. It can dictate not only the choreography but the emotion. If it's not the right music it can ruin a performance.”
“One thing about Texas people, they're very passionate about their Rock N' Roll, and I love it.”
“One thing about the business and investing world that I connect to very intimately is that there is little room to deny the harsh realities of your mistakes. A bad call can lose you many millions.”
“One thing about the om meditation is certain: It is a universal sound that is representative of the unity that’s needed to empathize with those around us.”
Source: A Little Bit of Meditation: An Introduction to Focus
“One thing about the past. It's likely to last.”
“One thing about these storms, we know how disruptive things can be when we depend on the system to keep working. What would happen if the terrorists do it? Knock down the power, destroy bridges, cut the water supply?”
“One thing about this face was very strange and startling. You could not look upon it in its most cheerful mood without feeling that it had some extraordinary capacity of expressing terror. It was not on the surface. It was in no one feature that it lingered. You could not take the eyes or mouth, or lines upon the cheek, and say, if this or that were otherwise, it would not be so. Yet there it always lurked-something for ever dimly seen, but ever there, and never absent for a moment.”
Source: Barnaby Rudge, And, Hard Times: With Ten Illustrations
“One thing about this game: It's really frustrating. In hockey, if you team's losing, you can start a fight. You can get your frustrations out.”