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“If you, like me, lived through 1973-74 or even the early 1990s... There was a waiting list to get OUT of the country club - that's when you know things are tough. If you live long enough, you'll see it.”

Ifs Knows Long Country Enough Waiting Tough Clubs Lists Like Me Country Clubs If You Like Me

Author:Charlie Munger

“Figure out what past efforts amounted to nothing and label them your "not to do" list. Post the list where you'll see it.”

Past Effort Figures Lists Labels Posts

Author:Barbara Corcoran

“Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a sombre graveyard of dead books.”

Years Book Past Forever Achieve Disappear Lists Fifty Exception Popularity Lively Graveyard

Author:Carlos Fuentes

“Curiosity and listening [are the principles to an excellent interview]. I never go into an interview with a dedicated list of questions in which I will not deviate. You must be curious about the subject and listen to his answer and ask the next question off that rather than the next question on your list.”

Next Asks Answers Principles Subjects Listening Curiosity Lists Curious Excellent Interviews Dedicated Deviate

Author:Michael Kay

“Because adoption meets the needs of children so successfully, and because there have long been waiting lists of couples hoping to adopt babies and children, it would seem that the solution for abused or neglected kids was obvious. But not to the do-gooders. To remove a child from an abusive parent, sever the parent's parental rights, and permit the child to be adopted by a couple who would give the child a loving home began to seem too 'judgmental.'”

Source: Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us

“What makes our marriage holy, what makes it "set apart" and sacramental, isn't the marriage certificate filed away in the basement or the degree to which we follow a list of rules and roles, it's the way God shows up in those everyday moments - loading the dishwasher, sharing a joke, hosting a meal, enduring an illness, working through a disagreement - and gives us the chance to notice, to pay attention to the divine. It's the way the God of resurrection makes all things new.”

“The third major characteristic of God - "infinitude" - is the catchall, the universal modifier of Christian theology. God is not merely a being; he is infinite being. God is not merely good; he is infinite goodness. God is not merely wise; he is infinite wisdom. And so on down the list. God is exaggeration run amuck.”

Running Christian Wise Goodness Majors Thirds Universal Infinite Lists Theology Characteristics Exaggeration Christian Theology

Book:Atheism: The Case Against God

Source: Atheism: The Case Against God

“We want to put a stop to tax havens. We want results on this, with a list of tax havens and a series of consequences.”

Want Results Havens Taxes Consequence Series Lists

Author:Nicolas Sarkozy

“At the top of the list of what makes a successful marriage, is a sense of humor.”

Successful Lists Sense Of Humor Successful Marriage

Author:Deborah Kerr

“Earlier in life, I put family in front of faith. I've fixed that. But I always tried to keep work fourth on the list. I was proud when [my wife] Nellie told an interviewer, 'I never could tell whether John had a good practice or a bad practice, because he never brought it home'”

Home Practice Wife Fronts Proud My Wife Lists Fixed Fourth Interviewers

Author:John Wooden

“Whenever I think of how religion started, I picture some frustrated old man making out a list of all the ways he could gain power, until he finally came up with the great solution of constant fear and guilt, then he leaped up and started planning a new wardrobe.”

Thinking Men Way Solutions Gains Constant Guilt Lists Planning Old Man Frustrated Wardrobe

Author:Steve Blake

“It is impossible for an abortion clinic to have a waiting list of more than nine months.”

Waiting Impossible Months Lists Nine Abortion Clinic Nine Months

Book:Brain Droppings

Source: Brain Droppings

“The only things government can do are regulate and redistribute, prohibit and penalize, confiscate and command. Are these the things that liberty is made of? Somebody else's money and an endless list of Thou Shalt Nots?”

Made Government Can Do Liberty Lists Endless Command

Book:Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen

Source: Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen

“I'm sure I have a lot to atone for, if there is a judgment day. It's gonna be a long list for me. It goes right up until I was about 18 and then I sort of straightened out.”

Ifs Long Judgment Lists Judgment Day

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“Every morning I walk by a funeral home, and that's my productivity hack for how to make sure your to-do list is properly prioritized.”

Home Walks Morning Productivity Lists Funeral Every Morning Hacks Morning Routines

Author:Anil Dash

“The big-name stars . . . are always going to be playing what they've played before if they want to remain so-called A-list stars. That's why someone like Johnny Depp is doing more interesting roles not caring about the size of the movie.”

Ifs Want Bigs Names Stars Interesting Roles Size Caring Lists Not Caring

Author:Ben Stiller

“There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.”

Persons Purpose Numbers Objects Ambition Lists Academy

Book:Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes

Source: Reflections on the Decline of Science in England, and on Some of Its Causes

“It might be different for people that are A-list actors, but a lot of us really look at what's offered to us and look for something that has some traction with other people. But, it's not like I read 100 scripts a week, and then pick and choose. Maybe some actors do. I certainly don't do that.”

People Looks Different Might Actors Week Picks Scripts Lists Traction

Author:John Noble

“I didn't want the film to be didactic, and this is tough because if you look at the list of issues, you have immigration, the education system, you have the grieving, you have suicide. I think what saved me were two things. I tried to do everything with some level of restraint and let the spectator make up his own mind.”

Ifs Thinking Want Mind Looks Two Film Levels Issues Tough Suicide Lists Saved Immigration Grieving Two Things Restraint Spectators Education System Didactic

Author:Philippe Falardeau

“I keep joking that I'm in Jason Reitman Film School, because I keep asking him questions every single day about directing and I have a list of things that he's told me to do and not do and I definitely couldn't learn from a better person.”

Persons School Film Asking Lists Better Person Jason Film School

Author:Diablo Cody

“I firmly believe that contemporary spiritual use of entheogenic drugs is one of humankind's brightest hopes for overcoming the ecological crisis from which we threaten the biosphere and jeopardize our own survival, for Homo sapiens is close to the head of the list of endangered species.”

Believe Use Spiritual Drug Survival Overcoming Crisis Species Lists Contemporary Humankind Homo Sapiens Ecological Biosphere Endangered Species Jeopardize Ecological Crisis

Author:Jonathan Ott

“If I were gay, you know. I think Woody Allen is one of a long list of men I might go gay for.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Long Might Gay Lists Woody

Author:David Duchovny

“My life is not about the set list, it is to be set apart.”

Life Is Lists

Author:Louie Giglio

“Nutty people are always writing me. I always think I must be on some nutty mailing list.”

People Thinking Writing Lists Nutty Mailing

Book:The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again

Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again

“Do you ever go off with a long grocery list and come home from the store with a bunch of different stuff? And somebody in the family unsacks the groceries and wants to know why you got this and didn't get that and just where is the whatever? And you want to say, 'Well, just be glad I came back, okay?' And the unpacker says, 'Well, next time bring what's on the list.'”

Knows Want Wells Long Different Home Next Stuff Okay Stores Lists Glad Bunch Coming Home Next Time Groceries Grocery Lists

Book:It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It

Source: It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It

“I try not to read best-dressed lists or anything like that.”

Trying Lists Best Dressed

Author:Nina Dobrev

“Do what you do because Jesus is watching, not so you'll end up on some top 100 church list or be the envy of the next pastors gathering. That stuff doesn't matter. Be innovative because you believe people matter and you want to please Jesus.”

People Want Believe Ends Matter Next Jesus Stuff Church Please Envy Lists Pastor Gathering Innovative Top 100

Author:Tim Stevens

“Lean is a way of thinking- not a list of things to do”

Thinking Way Lists Things To Do Way Of Thinking

Author:Shigeo Shingo

“I'm not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I've flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs.”

I Can Use Bigs Walks Focus Particular Projects Lists Checks Online Mail Desks Blogs Calendars Monitoring Desktop Folders

Author:Bill Gates

“I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.”

People Ideas Wish Share Lists Christmas Wishes

Author:Bill Gates

“How I hate the attitude of ordinary people to life. How I loathe ordinariness! How from my soul I abhor nice simple people, with their eternal price list. It makes my blood boil.”

People Soul Hate Simple Attitude Nice Blood Eternal Ordinary I Hate Lists My Soul Ordinary People Loathe Ordinariness

Book:The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence

“I don't understand the problem with paroling Charles Manson? I say set him free and let him get on with his work. I have a long list of celebrities I'd be glad to share with him.”

Long Problem Share Lists Glad Manson

Author:George Carlin

“A new biography of Madonna came out last week, and apparently the biography lists all the men she's slept with. The book is apparently called the Manhattan Telephone Directory.”

Men Book Lasts Week He Man Lists Biographies Telephones Manhattan

Author:Bill Maher

“You know what's the greatest part of anything ever in the history of everything? Exaggeration. No, wait; it's correcting yourself. No, better yet, it's making lists.”

Knows Waiting Lists Exaggeration Correcting

Author:Demetri Martin

“Most people in the country would think the diamond jubilee is a wonderful occasion for us to celebrate together as a community and as a nation. But I suspect that most people in the country would think, given that there is very little money around, that this probably would not be the top of their list of priorities for the use of scarce public resources.”

People Thinking Littles Country Use Together Given Nations Community Wonderful Resources Lists Priorities Celebrate Occasions Suspects Diamond Scarce Little Money Jubilee Diamond Jubilee

Author:Nick Clegg

“I'm a lover of lists and five-year plans and Excel spreadsheets. Any way that I can have any control over the direction my life is going, I gravitate towards that.”

Way Years I Can Life Is Five Plans Lovers Lists Five Years Five Year Plans

Author:Jenna Fischer

“Music licensing is a strange business to navigate, and all kinds of little things can drive a price up or down. It's completely fluid, it constantly changes, and there's no list of prices on a menu. Everything is negotiable in every way.”

Way Kind Littles Strange Lists All Kinds Little Things Fluid Navigate Menus Licensing

Author:Liza Richardson

“I always cringe when a male friend of mine, who's very fixated on women, puts "compatibility" at the top of his list of attributes that he would be looking for in a woman. I would replace compatibility with dialectic.”

Would Be Mines Males Lists Attributes Cringe Dialectics Compatibility

Author:James Ellroy

“I think my mother taught me what not to do. She put us first, always, sometimes to the detriment of herself. She encouraged me not to do that. She'd say being a good mother isn't all about sacrificing; it's really investing and putting yourself higher on your priority list.”

Thinking Firsts Sometimes Mother Sacrifice Taught Higher Investing Lists Priorities Good Mother Being A Good Mother

Author:Michelle Obama

“My list would be Russia, Morocco, Turkey, and South Africa I'm doing which is somewhere I've wanted to go, Australia, Japan maybe, and China, if I have the energy to go and play at all those places.”

Ifs Play Would Be Wanted Energy South China Lists Russia Japan Australia South Africa Turkeys Morocco

Author:A. R. Rahman

“I got like a list of things at the beginning. There were ten things that Bryan made for each one of us, and he drew us our own personal picture of our character that was in color. And uh, I just have a copy of it, I think that they're going to do something special with the originals at the end, like presenting them to us.”

Thinking Made Ends Character Special Color Ten Originals Lists Copies Presenting Something Special Bryan

Author:Johnny Simmons

“As far back as I can remember, I had an interest in fashion. I used to go to sleepaway camp, and they'd provide a list of things that you had to bring, and I always wanted to be a bit more creative than the list allowed. Like, if they required chinos, I wanted to hand-paint them.”

Ifs I Can Hands Wanted Remember Used Bits Interest Creative Fashion Paint Lists Camps

Author:Marc Jacobs

“Models: I'm not voting for you for any stupid magazine list! If you were really that Hot you wouldn't have to beg the world to stuff the ballot.”

Ifs World Stuff Stupid Models Hot Lists Magazines Voting Ballots Not Voting

Author:Daniel Tosh

“It's important to run not on the fast track, but on your track. Pretend that you have only six months to live, and make three lists: the things you have to do, want to do, and neither have to do nor want to do. Then, for the rest of your life, forget everything on the third list.”

Want Important Running Three Forget Months Six Thirds Track Lists Six Months Rest Of Your Life Forget Everything

Author:Mike Davies

“I was scared to death because for the comics of my generation, HBO specials are like the pinnacle. I'm thinking of all these unbelievable comedians I've seen on HBO: Chris Rock, George Carlin, Damon Wayans, Richard Pryor and Billy Crystal. I started having a panic attack seeing my name in that list of people. It was pretty overwhelming.”

People Thinking Names Seeing Generations Rocks Scared Lists Comedian Overwhelming Panic Unbelievable Crystals My Generation Pinnacle Hbo Panic Attacks Damon

Author:Bill Burr

“I don't make a list of questions. Ever. I think a lot of my interviews are driven by my need to feel connection.”

Thinking Needs Feels Connections Driven Lists Interviews

Author:Marc Maron

“Did you ever notice all the items on a honey do list are dangerous. Clean gutters, put light in shower, patch roof. It's a honey die list.”

Light Dies Dangerous Danger Clean Lists Honey Roof Showers Cleaning Items Patches Housework Gutters Wordplay

Author:Bill Engvall

“Went to the grocery store, got everything on my list and went up to the checkout. I put a bag of pet food for our rabbit on the conveyor. The girl looked at me and said, Do you have a rabbit? I looked at here and said deadpan, Nope. Just like 'em 'cause they're crunchy. Here's your sign.”

Said Girl Causes Stores Lists Pet Ems Bags Rabbits Groceries Grocery Stores Checkouts Crunchy Pet Food

Author:Bill Engvall

“When it comes to staying myself - my career isn't my life, it doesn't come home with me. So it's a piece of piss staying grounded and not being changed by it. The same things I've always liked still satisfy me. My team's the same and my group of friends are the same. Of course I'm bowled over by people's response to 21, and when I meet artists I love, it blows my mind. But it baffles me as well. I go home and my best friend laughs at me, rather than going to a celebrity-studded party to rub shoulders with people who know me but who I don't know. I'm Z-list when it comes to that sh**.”

People Knows Mind Wells Stills Home Artist Courses Party Careers Laughing Pieces Groups Team Changed Response Blow Lists Shoulders Staying Coming Home Know Me Grounded My Best Friend Group Of Friends

Author:Adele

“If anything, I believe that when I die, I will have to stand in front of all the children who went to bed hungry while I was on earth and read aloud a list of my eBay purchases. I shudder to think of it. Explaining to a poor child with a swollen belly why I didn't give his village fifty cents a week but spent twenty-seven dollars in a bidding war for a Mars Attacks coffee cup.”

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