Sydney Madwed Quotes

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

Sydney Madwed

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LifeManBlameSomeoneSometimes

My position is that it isn't government's job to mandate patriotism. To me, mandating a pledge of allegiance to a government is something Saddam Hussein would do.

Jesse Ventura

PatriotismJobGovernmentMePledge

I went from living in a house with five guys in Palo Alto, and living off their leftovers, to all of a sudden having all kinds of resources. And I wanted to figure out how I could take the blessing of these resources and share it with the world.

Jeffrey Skoll

BlessingWorldHouseLivingOutOff

I really feel like we have drifted too far away from real America.

Stephen Fincher

FeelAmericaFar AwayRealAwayFar

I'm not good at cutting off from work.

Trinny Woodall

WorkGoodOffCutting

Flattery was one of Kissinger's principal tools in winning over Nixon, and a tool he employed shamelessly.

Robert Dallek

WinningToolsFlatteryPrincipalHe

I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

DancePhotographyLooksNeverStudio

Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.

Michael Porter

InnovationProsperityEconomicIssue

I try to make statements that aren't broad because that doesn't make for good writing. I don't get commentary as my job, because I'm not very good at that. The way I do it is by writing songs, and I have to be small; I have to make the stories a bit personal.

Jason Isbell

GoodJobWritingSmallPersonalWay

I've led a career of having to take work to see my family, over picking and choosing, instead of 'I need food on the table and I don't know how I'm going to pay the mortgage.'

Jason Momoa

WorkFamilyFoodCareerTableKnow

Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations.

Jarvis Cocker

MoneyDietTryingLongYouLiving

You take on what's right in front of you. You want to do the best you can with the opportunities that you have.

Don Shula

BestOpportunitiesYouWantRight

My biggest fear was public speaking, and then having everyone know who I was, it was definitely weird at first. When I first won, it was definitely a culture shock, it was something I wasn't quite ready for.

Chris Moneymaker

FearCultureWeirdReadyKnowFirst

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