"Life is about losing everything, gracefully."

-- Mia Farrow

#Losing Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“I do not despise genius-indeed, I wish I had a basketful of it. But yet, after a great deal of experience and observation, I have become convinced that industry is a better horse to ride than genius. It may never carry any man as far as genius has carried individuals, but industry-patient, steady, intelligent industry-will carry thousands into comfort, and even celebrity; and this it does with absolute certainty.”

Source : Wess Stafford (2013). “Just a Minute: In the Heart of a Child, One Moment ... Can Last Forever.”, p.17, Moody Publishers
“I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities.”

Source : "Countdown" with Keith Oldermann, www.nbcnews.com. January 7, 2005.
“I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.”
“But she had to know words. She had to know everything.”

Source : Eva Ibbotson (2008). “The Morning Gift”, p.5, Pan Macmillan
“Part of my agenda has been to support art that engages life with people.”

Source : "Jeffrey Deitch’s Party House" by Edward Lewine, www.nytimes.com. April 20, 2012.
“Nothing beats the original Krispy Kreme”
“It took me a full year of black eyes and a bruised and battered tailbone to learn how to do a crippler in the half-pipe. It was a trick that no one else was really doing, and it was scary! But I stuck with it, and one day, it finally clicked. The crippler has been my signature trick ever since, and it's what helped me be so successful in competition.”
“Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it.”

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