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Maurice Flanagan Quotes

It's easy to walk away from risk, and you don't actually have to face it. Success is based upon overcoming the inherent risk you can't manage your way out of.

Maurice Flanagan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: british
Birth: November 17, 1928 - May 7, 2015

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Success Walk Overcoming Face You

When I started writing 'Batman,' I lobbied heavily to get rid of Robin - or at least not use him in the stories I wrote. Fighting crime with a teenager dressed in primary colors while you're sporting a gray-and-black outfit always struck me as child endangerment, if not abuse.

Jim Starlin

Child Me Colors Writing Fighting

We have problems, terrible problems, but our problems are human problems.

John Cassavetes

Problems Human Terrible Our

I think it's an important part of the visual effects supervisor's job to get really deeply embedded in production and keep us all focused on trying to generate the best result. I'm not proprietary about, 'I would rather do this effect than let physical effects do it.' No, let's do the smartest thing for the movie.

John Knoll

Best Job Think Trying Result Us

I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good.

John McGahern

Good Live Think Feel Changes Up

In the late '80s and early '90s, there was a slightly retro drum sound that was popular in hip-hop music called the 808 bass drum sound. It was the bass drum sound on the 808 drum machine, and it's very deep and very resonant, and was used as the backbone as a lot of classic hip-hop tracks.

Steve Albini

Music Deep Early Late Hip-Hop Sound

I still approach every film and role like it's my first.

Sridevi

First Film Role Still Like Approach

I have fought to protect those benefits that ensure better salaries for teachers across the Nation such as grants to pay off student loans and funding for Teach for America. Still, we must all do more to show our continued appreciation for our Nation's leading role models.

Solomon Ortiz

Appreciation Better America Student

I was pretty immature, and some of it came from just wanting to have fun.

Robby Gordon

Fun Have Fun Immature Pretty Just

The energy in Silicon Valley is because of the very talented engineers immigrating from around the world, especially Indians and Chinese. They are the best engineers, and Japan doesn't have enough of them.

Masayoshi Son

Best World Energy Enough Engineers

We're all in denial from time to time. We all see things that are too painful to really deal with. But this has consequences, and the consequences of not vaccinating your children are not only just that those children are exposed to illnesses; it's that everyone else they go to school with and they hang around with are, too.

Michael Specter

Children Time School Consequences Go

Every nation on this planet has its issues with race, and I am not sure if everyone has figured out how to deal with it. America has become more politically correct.

Montel Williams

I Am America Race Become More Out

Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?

Jay Leno

Think You Lottery Never See Here