"The message I got from my father was that life is hard, but you just don't quit. I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness. You've got to kick fear to the side, because the payoff is huge."

-- Mariska Hargitay

#Father Quotes #Grateful Quotes #Greatness Quotes

“Mick Jagger's lips' so big, black people be going, "You got some big-ass lips!"”
“And on the war, I think my numbers would be a lot higher if I were out there beating the drum for this war. In fact, I don't think it, I know it. But I can't be for the war.”
“All great inventions emerge from a long sequence of small sparks; the first idea often isnâ€™t all that good, but thanks to collaboration it later sparks another idea, or itâ€™s reinterpreted in an unexpected way. Collaboration brings small sparks together to generate breakthrough innovation.”
“Mostly, I believe an artist doesn't create something, but is there to sort through, to show, to point out what already exists, to put it into form and sometimes reformulate it.... I didn't invent anything, I indicated.”
“If you find something precious you have to hold onto it with all your might and never let it go inspite of whatever else you may lose, after all many people die without ever finding that's really precious to them.”
“When Providence favors, you can make a safe voyage on a twig.”
“Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.”
“I think we agree, the past is over.”

Source : "Subdued McCain Endorses Bush". David Jackson and Wayne Slater, The Dallas Morning News (May 10, 2000), as quoted in "Make the Pie Higher!", www.snopes.com. July 22, 2008.

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