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Dick Butkus Quotes

My thing is trying to convince them they can win.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: December 9, 1942

Topics

Win Trying Convince Them Thing

I worked on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange back when they used to write tickets. And I was just a runner. So a guy would write a ticket and I would run it, and it was endless. That was a hard job. And I dug tungsten... for a coal company in Wyoming one summer, and that was pretty miserable.

John C. McGinley

Job New York Back Summer New Run

People want to see comedies where characters aren't sacrificed for the jokes.

People Want See Jokes Where

I actually grew up break-dancing. When you break-dance you listen to hip-hop and rap, so I've been listening to that music since I was a kid.

Matthew Morrison

Music Listening You Hip-Hop Listen

It'd be nice to learn enough from each mistake that we'd be guaranteed to never repeat that same mistake twice. But, how many times have you said, 'I'll never do that again,' only to find yourself right back at it a few days later. Learning from our mistakes requires humility and a willingness to look for new strategies to become better.

Learning Mistakes Yourself Humility

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.

Perseverance Courage Cat Conviction

There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true.

Life My Life True Write Simply Much

Frank Sinatra discovered me at a nightclub called P.J.'s in Hollywood. It was 1962. He used to come in there a lot with all his big star friends. I was so nervous to see him. I've only had one idol in my life, and that was Frank Sinatra.

Life Me My Life Friends Nervous See

I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Father Song Old First Years Out

I can't do anything in a minute.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

Anything Minute

You don't want to look the same every day of your life. It's boring as hell.

Life Day Hell You Every Day Look

Losing control of your pick on stage sucks, so I scratch some deep X's into both sides of my pick with something sharp, like a dart.

Dimebag Darrell

Losing Control Deep Sides Stage

I've been a mogul and executive since the beginning of my career. People are just born with that skill.

Beginning People Career Born Skill

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