Careful Quotes

• We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Life, Happiness, Wisdom

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.5, Dial Press

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  If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

  Malcolm X

  Hate, Lying, Media

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• We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.

  Melinda Gates

  Light, Use, Be Careful

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Beautiful, God

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• Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational, Success, Broken Heart

  "James Baldwin's much anticipated new novel - archive" by Hugh Hebert, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2016.

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• Be careful who you trust, the devil was once an angel.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Angel, Devil, Be Careful

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• Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

  W. Clement Stone

  Friendship, Choices, Insightful

  "How to Be the Employee Your Company Can't Live Without: 18 Ways to Become Indispensable". Book by Glenn Shepard, 2006.

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• I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

  Michael J. Fox

  Work, Inspirational Life, Self Esteem

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Money, Men

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• Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophical, Fighting, Hypocrisy

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• If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

  Samuel Beckett

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

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• Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.

  Carl Sandburg

  Life, Time, Attitude

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• I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Party, Law, Leader

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2005). “Speeches, Writings, and Statements of Iqbal”

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• To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

  John F. Kennedy

  Trust, Past, Giving

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.19, Best Books on

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• Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in womb?

  Trey Parker

  Mother, Heart, Coats

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• Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.

  Tobias Wolff

  Teaching, Writing, People

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• I am brave, but I take a view. It is an educated view. I am careful. I am not reckless.

  Philip Green

  Intelligent, Views, Bravery

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• As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.

  Stanley Tucci

  Design, Directors, Doe

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• Be careful. Journalism is more addictive than crack cocaine. Your life can get out of balance.

  Dan Rather

  Life, Inspire, Balance

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• I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Trying, Arrogant, Literature

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• I have to be very careful about how often I drag my family to places. They need some stability in their lives.

  Gregory Harrison

  Needs, My Family, Drag

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• What to do when inspiration doesn't come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around until the idea comes.

  John Huston

  Inspiration, Ideas, Wind

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• I am careful with my material and presentation.

  Shelley Berman

  Materials, Presentation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.

  John Thomas Sladek

  Found, Be Careful, Novel

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• Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Strong Women, Inspiration, People

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