Path Quotes - Page 24

• Actually, the books were never a planned career path.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Book, Careers, Career Path

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• Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.

  Bernadette Devlin

  Mother, Equality, Church

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• An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.

  James Dyson

  Scratches, Fists, Inventor

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• I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.

  Idris Elba

  Order, Years, Law

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• Spiritually, we're all on a path. I haven't declared of defined myself because as soon as you declare yourself you're identifying with a certain dogma.

  Emilio Estevez

  Dogma, Certain, Havens

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• If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Environment, Genes, Determine

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• I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.

  Jodie Foster

  Opportunity, College, Leaving

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• What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Literature, Way, Crooked

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• One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

  Germaine Greer

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Night

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• I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and recognizing the humanity in others.

  Herbie Hancock

  Buddhism, Years, Humanity

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've had a life that has taken many interesting paths. I've learned a lot from mentors who were instrumental in shaping me, and I want to share what I've learned.

  Herbie Hancock

  Taken, Interesting, Mentor

  FaceBook post by Herbie Hancock from Jan 11, 2016

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• I admire when people take the harder path, not because they are masochistic and want to beat themselves up, but because you actually kind of learn more and I think you grow more.

  Josh Hartnett

  Thinking, People, Want

  "Josh Hartnett Interview - RESURRECTING THE CHAMP". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. August 21, 2007.

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• As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.

  Kin Hubbard

  Agony, Fire, Giving

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• However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Men, Evil, Middle Path

  Wilhelm von Humboldt (2008). “The Limits of State Action”, p.134, Cambridge University Press

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• I'm doing 'Les Miserables,' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like, 'Come on, let's do a movie/musical.'

  Hugh Jackman

  Movie, Two, People

  Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.

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• We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Chapman, told us just how the war would end.

  Chief Joseph

  Brother, War, White

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• I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Design, Different, Finals

  "Mikhail Kalashnikov: 'I sleep soundly'" by Nick Paton Walsh, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2003.

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  The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that.

  Eartha Kitt

  Mean, Wind, Rivers

  FaceBook post by Eartha Kitt from Feb 26, 2016

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• I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.

  Eartha Kitt

  Way, Herds, Made

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• Once he had selected the path he was going down he really had to stick with it in a 16 game match. He had to try and hit in the one direction but unfortunately for him - though fortunately for me! - he hit in the wrong direction.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Games, One Direction, Trying

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• When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Lonely, Honor, Free Will

  "Suu Kyi To Accept Nobel Peace Prize, Decades Late". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. June 16, 2012.

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• Every woman's path is difficult, and many mothers were as equipped to raise children as wire monkey mothers. I say that without judgment: It is, sadly, true. An unhealthy mother's love is withering.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Children, Love Is

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• I do not believe that Obama is smarter than anybody else. I do not believe he has cut a new path and is a politician unlike any we've ever seen regarding his intellect. I don't believe any of this hocus-pocus. I didn't believe it when they said it about Hillary, Smartest Woman in the World.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Cutting, World

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• I think right now the way society's going, I think role models are important, and kids need direction. If I didn't have that direction growing up, who knows what I could be doing, because I've been lost many times in my life, and I've had to have someone guide me back on the right path.

  Jeremy Lin

  Growing Up, Kids, Thinking

  Interview With Steve Serby, nypost.com. February 18, 2012.

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• We all put obstacles in our own path toward personal style, myself included. If we understood why we constructed these practical and emotional obstacles, we might move beyond it to healthier, happier perceptions of ourselves and, ideally, a better sense of self-esteem.

  Stacy London

  Self Esteem, Moving, Emotional

  Stacy London (2012). “The Truth About Style”, p.12, Penguin

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