"I grew up under demanding people, that demanded things from you, expected you to toe the mark."

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Bill Parcells

#People Quotes #Toes Quotes #Mark Quotes

“Well-bred English people never have imagination ...”
“Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. It can't be done except by liars.”

Source : Bernard Mannes Baruch (1970). “Baruch: My own story”
“The very funny thing about "Like A Rolling Stone" is it was a six minute song, there was no music to read from. And there I was playing this unfamiliar instrument. So I would come in on the upbeat of one. I would wait until the band played the chord, and then as quickly as I could come in play the chord.”
“It is clear to me that unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it.”

Source : Helen Caldicott (2009). “If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth (Revised and Updated)”, p.235, W. W. Norton & Company
“If I stay healthy and I'm playing good tennis I have as good a chance as anybody.”
“When the Second World War broke out, I felt that everyone must do his share, and I began composing songs and marches for the front. But soon events assumed such gigantic and far-reaching scope as to demand larger canvasses.”
“But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action.”
“I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw.”

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