One Thing Quotes - Page 26

• It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

  Richard Linklater

  Work Out, Luck, Happenstance

  Interview with Michael Koresky and Jeff Reichert, reverseshot.org. July 2, 2004.

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• I say the one thing about luck is you can't really count on it.

  Ron Livingston

  Luck

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The biggest problem is always getting hits. That's the one thing that has never changed. The way of delivering music has changed, the way of listening to it has changed, the way of distributing it has changed, but it's always the music.

  Doug Morris

  Listening, Way, Problem

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• One thing that I noticed is having met some former Taliban is even they, as children, grew up being indoctrinated. They grew up in violence. They grew up in war. They were taught to hate. They were, they grew up in very ignorant cultures where they didn't learn about the outside world.

  Greg Mortenson

  Children, War, Hate

  "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. January 15, 2010.

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• Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.

  Cameron Mackintosh

  Thinking, Wonderful, Forgotten

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• I know one thing: There are a billion Islamic people in the world today, and there will be about 2 billion by the time we're dead. They're not going to give up their religion.

  Chris Matthews

  Giving Up, Islamic, People

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• If love doesn’t triumph, it ought to. For love is the one thing we have that feels more powerful than even death; the only respite from life’s wretched absurdity. The magic of love is not that it contains all the answers, it’s that it eliminates the need for so many pressing questions. For love makes us feel like gods--and that’s what we’re really after, isn’t it?

  Jonathan Hull

  Powerful, Love Is, Magic

  Jonathan Hull (2001). “Losing Julia”, Island Books

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• I tell you one thing - if you want peace of mind, don not fault with others.

  Sarada Devi

  Mind, Faults, Want

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• My sense of style is an old Polo shirt, jeans and, unfortunately for the longest time, white running shoes, which was not attractive. The one thing I've learned about clothes is to ask a girl.

  Matthew Perry

  Girl, Running, Jeans

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• My worlds collide. When one things happens, it just starts a domino effect - everything else goes on.

  Wanda Sykes

  Goes On, World, Collide

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• We do have trouble dealing with death, but it's the one thing that is guaranteed we are all going to have to do, and we are going to have to face it many times before we die ourselves.

  Katherine Paterson

  Faces, Trouble, Dealing With Death

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• Knowing where you come from is one thing, but it's suicide to stay there.

  Dennis Covington

  Suicide, Knowing, Where You Come

  Dennis Covington (2009). “Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia”, p.236, Da Capo Press

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• How many young people among you are like this? You know how to give and yet you have ever learned how to receive. You still lack one thing. Become a beggar. This is what you still lack. Learn how to beg. This isn’t easy to understand. To learn how to beg. To learn how to receive with humility.

  Pope Francis

  Humility, People, Giving

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• We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Children, Army, Land

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• I had spent years thinking about one thing while I was doing another. I had, in fact, prided myself on being able to do two things at once.

  Jane Smiley

  Thinking, Years, Two

  "Jane Smiley: Everything I need to know I learned from a horse" by Jane Smiley, www.cnn.com. September 5, 2011.

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• And if there is one thing we can be sure of, it’s that extreme weather events like Superstorm Sandy, Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, and the British floods—disasters that, combined, pummeled coastlines beyond recognition, ravaged millions of homes, and killed many thousands—are going to keep coming.

  Naomi Klein

  Home, Weather, Events

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• I can't go to sleep at night if I didn't accomplish at least something. That's the one thing that keeps me up.

  Marilyn Manson

  Sleep, Night, Accomplish

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• If one concentrates on one thing and does not get away from it ... he will possess strong, moving power.

  Cheng Yi

  Perseverance, Strong, Moving

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• One thing I always tell people. If you want to be gold medalist, you partner one.

  Howard Bach

  People, Gold, Want

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• Having worked at four separate Wall Street firms, having seen a variety of talent at those places, and having competed against Goldman as a banker, one thing you have to be struck by is the power of their recruiting.

  William D. Cohan

  Wall, Bankers, Four

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• I've always tried to come up with funny dancing since I was young, to attract girls' attention for one thing. It's got to be funny. I can't pull it off with serious dances. That's not me.

  PSY

  Girl, Dancing, Attention

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• I think the mistake a lot of people make with new media is they just focus on one thing. But any one thing - just doing podcasts or just having a website or just doing television - isn't enough anymore.

  Chris Hardwick

  Mistake, Thinking, Media

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• EMILY's List has worked a lot with swing women voters over the years, and one thing we've learned is that they are very cynical about politics and politicians. They very much want help with the challenges facing them and their families, and they feel like most politicians don't understand or want to lift a finger to help them out.

  Ellen Malcolm

  Swings, Years, Cynical

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• Well, one thing's very clear, that terrorism isn't just a threat which is external to Western countries. It's not simply a foreign menace that comes from overseas to strike our cities. It can and it does, as we now know, come from within our own countries and from inside our own populations.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  Country, Cities, Population

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• Human character is just endlessly fascinating, and there is no character who is one thing any more than any one person is just one thing. As you work on a character, he/she is revealed more and more. That's what I continue to love about the work.

  Sada Thompson

  Character, Humans, Persons

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