Judy Collins Quotes

I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way.

Judy Collins

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PoliticsMeWorldSpeakAmerican

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

John D. Rockefeller

GoodGreatGoAfraidUpGive

I always lamented that I wasn't a writer during the late '60s and the early '70s, with the New Journalism and Tom Wolfe and Hunter Thompson and all those people.

Meghan Daum

PeopleJournalismEarlyLateNew

If one tries to think about history, it seems to me - it's like looking at a range of mountains. And the first time you see them, they look one way. But then time changes, the pattern of light shifts. Maybe you've moved slightly, your perspective has changed. The mountains are the same, but they look very different.

Robert Harris

HistoryTimeLightPerspectiveMe

I grew up a little girl in the Soviet Union playing at a small sports club. Tennis gave me my life.

Anna Kournikova

LifeGirlSportsMeSmallMy Life

I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles.

Jeff Foxworthy

WordsBrainSongKnowIslandWhy

The first thing I heard when I got in the business - not from my mentor - was, 'Bulls make money, bears make money, and pigs get slaughtered.' I'm here to tell you I was a pig. And I strongly believe the only way to make long-term returns in our business that are superior is by being a pig.

Stanley Druckenmiller

BusinessMoneyBelieveYouPigWay

I knew from history that war comes with frightening regularity, often fought over the same ground and similar causes as previous conflicts.

Stanley A. McChrystal

HistoryWarSameOverGroundKnew

I have a long way to catch up. I have to start with the pros this year, about 20 seconds back.

Josh Brolin

StartYearLongBackWayUp

I feel so much better at 170, man.

Donald Cerrone

ManBetterFeelI FeelMuch

As an actor, acting is like playing a sport. You do this thing that's intangible, and while it's happening, it's great. But then when it's done, there's really no tangible product. Someone else is capturing it and turning it into something tangible.

Chris Evans

GreatSomeoneYouActingDoneActor

I'd love to play someone who's insane or something, just so I can go flake out. I like a superhero. I know that's ironic. That's where we are, but seriously, it'd be really cool to play a superhero.

Christian Serratos

LoveCoolSomeoneI CanPlayKnow

In writing my historical novels, I have to rely upon my imagination to a great extent. I think of it as 'filling in the blanks.' Medieval chroniclers could be callously indifferent to the needs of future novelists. But I think there is a great difference between filling in the blanks and distorting known facts.

Sharon Kay Penman

FutureGreatImaginationWriting

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