Robert Downey, Jr. Quotes

It's interesting when you're old enough to take a new, objective approach looking at your parents, frame them in a way where you are actually taking yourself out of the equation and just look at the things that are true about their life.

Robert Downey, Jr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 4, 1965

Topics

LifeYourselfParentsLookingLook

You can't learn everything you need to know legally.

John Irving

LegalLearnYouKnowNeedLegally

To me, Jeff Zucker is synonymous with winning. He's an incredible news executive.

Soledad O'Brien

MeWinningNewsExecutiveIncredible

Pilots, to a large degree, are like salesmen. They have to be confident to be good at their jobs. They have to practice relentlessly and plan out all the scenarios of the things that could happen when they're out there. Nothing is more important than preparation. They are also mighty competitive, both as individuals and as squadrons.

Simon Sinek

GoodPracticePreparationConfident

I've always been a news junkie, and an avid reader of newspapers and magazines, and this interest only ramped up during the campaign of 2016 and in the aftermath of the election.

Michiko Kakutani

ElectionNewsAlwaysUpInterest

I'll take a certain concern of my own or a situation and try to frame it around a fictional story, but sometimes just straight-up autobiographical songs work well, and sometimes a story is better. I like stories. I like to hear them. I don't think there are enough of them in songs anymore.

Jason Isbell

WorkStoryThinkBetterEnoughTry

The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing.

Jon Meacham

WorkFutureChildrenGreatWork Hard

I think success is a relative term. If you're a caveman, success is capturing an elephant. Success is achieving better than the norm. Success is being exceptional. It's exceptional reputation, exceptional income, and exceptional respect.

Jon Taffer

SuccessRespectThinkBetterYou

Everyone should just be kind to one another.

JoJo Siwa

Be KindKindEveryoneJustJust Be

The horrible truth is we are linear beings; we can't multitask, and we shouldn't keep interrupting important connections to each other with the latest message coming in.

Douglas Rushkoff

TruthTruth IsConnectionsImportant

You live vicariously through your characters.

Christopher Buckley

LiveYouThroughYourCharacters

I think that in order to make revolution, you need to make reforms, but you should make these reforms with revolution in mind.

Boots Riley

MindRevolutionThinkYouNeedMake

The one thing the Victorians really believed in was philanthropy. I think we've forgotten the obligation to be philanthropic. I think we need smaller government, but I want to make it clear I'm not the Sarah Palin of the Cotswolds.

Susan Hill

GovernmentThinkWantNeedForgotten

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