One Thing Quotes - Page 38

• I look around and see the things I have, and I remember not having them. That is one thing that keeps me grounded. I'm definitely the same person I was. . . . I never lose me, I never lose the real person.

  Mariah Carey

  Real, Looks, Remember

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• The one thing I don't understand is when people make comments who are clearly not fans of mine. I think, why are you here? Why are you wasting your time? It's fascinating.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Thinking, People, Fans

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I am quite happy that the Beatles came and went. There is even a sort of glory in not having it go on forever. There is a complete body of work that went from A to Z and it is all pretty damn good stuff. The one thing I am particularly proud of is that nearly every single bit of it has some good message. I feel fortunate when I look back. Life is not easy, but I've been very lucky - and I'm touching wood as I say that.

  Paul McCartney

  Forever, Touching, Goes On

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• After the Cold War, to rally the American people to understand that we had to be a part of solutions. It's one thing to say that we have to run everything, it's another to say we don't want anything to do with it.

  Madeleine Albright

  Running, War, People

  "Global Public Square" with Fareed Zakaria, globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com. November 02, 2008.

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• If you say to yourself, okay, I will not self-destruct. I don't have to be the most talented person. I don't have to be everybody's best friend, I don't have to be liked, I don't have to be successful, well, one thing I will not do is self-destruct. If you take that out, your chances for success just went up like 800 percent.

  Ethan Hawke

  Successful, Self, Chance

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• There's one thing you can't download and that's a live performance. And I know how to put on a show, and enjoy performing, and I'll always have that.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Enjoy, Performing, Downloads

  "Madonnarama!". Interview with Rich Cohen, www.vanityfair.com. May 2008.

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• One thing Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't is self-effacing. Everything has to be the biggest. His money, his muscles, his movies and his machines.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Self, Machines, Schwarzenegger

  "Arnold Schwarzenegger: Success and secrets". "60 Minutes" with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. September 30, 2012.

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• We live in a world with serious class complexes. It is one thing to be a college student with loan debts and another thing to be just dirt poor for your entire life. The challenge is to come up with more complex understandings of where we are, more global awareness of what connects Americans with what is happening with suffering and oppressed people all around the world.

  Bell Hooks

  College, Class, People

  Source: bknation.org

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• What I've learned about my self over the years is that I'm pretty restless. If I multitask it's probably because I have difficulty just focusing on one thing.

  Demetri Martin

  Self, Years, I've Learned

  Source: www.maximumfun.org

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• I'm proud of my works. But there's not one thing that I can put my finger on and say, "That is my greatest achievement. That's my proudest moment." That's so tricky to me.

  Jamie Bell

  Achievement, Proud, Moments

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• If someone picks up one thing you've written, you want them to go, 'Wow, this is pretty good.'

  Jim Gaffigan

  Want, Wow, Written

  "Interview: Jim Gaffigan Talks Family, Food And Dad Is Fat". Interview with Samantha Abernethy, chicagoist.com. May 10, 2013.

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• The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.

  Earl Monroe

  Basketball, Games

  "'The Pearl' Still Shining: An Interview with New York Knicks Legend Earl Monroe". Interview with Keith Schlosser, bleacherreport.com. November 24, 2009.

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• The one thing that fills me with enthusiasm is to try, despite everything, to get nearer to those visions that seem so hard to express.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Vision, Trying, Enthusiasm

  Paul Cézanne, Alberto Giacometti, Felix Andreas Baumann, Poul Erik Tøjner, Tobia Bezzola (2008). “Cézanne & Giacometti: paths of doubt”, Hatje Cantz Pub

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• I'm trying to cause people to be interested in the particulars of their lives because I think that's one thing literature can do for us. It can say to us: pay attention. Pay closer attention. Pay stricter attention to what you say to your son.

  Richard Ford

  Son, Thinking, People

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• One thing the humanitarian world doesn't do well is marketing. As a journalist, I get pitched every day by companies that have new products. Meanwhile, you have issues like clean water, literacy for girls, female empowerment. People flinch at the idea of marketing these because marketing sounds like something only companies do.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Girl, Ideas, Issues

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• It is better to be fully present and rested and engaged for one thing than rushed, distracted, and scattered for ten.

  Rob Bell

  Distracted, Engaged, Ten

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• Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone's individual pride.

  Scott Weiland

  Pride, Goal, Musician

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• One thing that was very clear to me is that the young people in a place like Annawadi aren't tripping on caste the way their parents are. They know their parents have these old views.

  Katherine Boo

  Views, People, Parent

  "Finding 'Life, Death And Hope' In A Mumbai Slum". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 8, 2012.

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• I live a fairly simple life, and that didnt change much after I sold TechCrunch in 2010. I didnt buy a new house or even a new car. The one thing I did splurge on was a boat. Nothing too fancy or large.

  Michael Arrington

  Simple, Car, House

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• One thing will lead to another and somebody will come up with a riff or a line or something we build from.

  Johnny Ramistella

  Lines, Come Up

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• Okay, if there's one thing you don't ever say to a woman on the edge it's that she's hormonal.

  Gemma Halliday

  Okay, Ifs, Edges

  Gemma Halliday (2010). “Spying in High Heels: High Heels Mysteries book #1”, p.98, Gemma Halliday Publishing

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• I think all in all, one thing a lot of plays seem to be saying is that we need to, as black Americans, to make a connection with our past in order to determine the kind of future we're going to have. In other words, we simply need to know who we are in relation to our historical presence in America.

  August Wilson

  Past, Thinking, Order

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• Our show is obviously at a disadvantage with any of the other news shows we're competing against. For one thing, we are fake. They are not. So in terms of credibility, we are ... well, oddly enough we're about even.

  Jon Stewart

  Fake, News, Enough

  "Why Jon Stewart Is All the Rage". City Magazine, www.city-journal.org. Spring, 2005.

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• When you're in the world looking for only one thing, you find it or it finds you. The obsession can be mutual

  Julianna Baggott

  World, Obsession, Mutual

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• Every guy has different strengths in the NFL. Receivers are different, running backs are different, but they all have that one thing that they do thats special: that thing that keeps them on the roster every year.

  Larry Fitzgerald

  Running, Years, Nfl

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