William H. McRaven Quotes

SEAL training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered but your will to succeed. Not your color, not your ethnic background, not your education and not your social status.

William H. McRaven

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EducationGreatTrainingSucceed

I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.

Joan Crawford

LoveSexNeedClearComplexion

I was born into a Turkish family that had acquired Italian citizenship. Many members of the family subsequently became British, French, Brazilian, and German, so there was a bit of everything. It was not uncommon for people in the family to speak seven languages: English, French, Ladino, Italian, Turkish, Arabic, and even Greek.

Andre Aciman

FamilyPeopleSpeakCitizenshipBorn

People look to you to replace a part in their lives that they can't get back. You can't get the past back, you can't do it. We've all tried.

Anna Chlumsky

PastPeopleYouLookBackGet

I'm getting good exposure because of the movies I'm picking and the people I'm working with.

Amy Jackson

GoodPeopleMoviesBecauseWorking

We might be workers, but we are not happy go-lucky jungle bunnies.

Slick Rick

HappyJungleWorkersMight

Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.

Sidney Sheldon

SleepPeopleBookEndPageChapter

I don't want to just make horror movies; I don't want to just make any type of movie - I don't just like horror movies, I love movies.

Rob Zombie

LoveWantMoviesHorrorJustLike

I wrote a song a good long while ago, 'I Ain't Livin' Long Like This,' that has been around and been recorded by a lot of people, but it was basically childhood memory.

Rodney Crowell

GoodChildhoodMemoryPeopleSong

The police, at their best, do three things; they prevent crime, they respond to crime, and they solve crime. In all three of those buckets, they need the trust of the community to do it, so I believe that if we restore the trust that we will change the way police are experiencing communities and ways that will preserve life and make everyone safer.

DeRay Mckesson

LifeChangeCommunityTrustBest

I have one of those old-fashioned mothers who told me every single day, 'Son, you can do or be anything that you want to do or be.' And I believed it. I bought into it 100%.

Chris Gardner

SonDayMeYouWantAnything

I never thought I'd see the day when the U.S. government could listen in on phone conversations or read private mail without first obtaining a warrant from a court. That sounds more like something that happened in the Soviet Union.

Chellie Pingree

DayGovernmentThoughtPhoneNever

I was really happy with my race, though. I beat my personal best by 1.2 seconds.

Bonnie Blair

BestHappyPersonalRaceBeat

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