Caroll Spinney Quotes

I think there's an awful lot of me in Big Bird, but Oscar is pretty much - I think I know how he thinks because he thinks exactly the opposite of what I think is a good way to be.

Caroll Spinney

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GoodBirdMeThinkKnowWay

When I was running training, we would fire a couple of leaders from every SEAL team because they couldn't lead. And 99.9% of the time, it wasn't a question of their ability - it was a question of their ability to listen.

Jocko Willink

TimeFireTrainingTeamListenLead

Every year I tell myself that I'm not going to read any reviews and then I do. We're all human and when I read something negative it hurts. I think when you write it's part of the game, you're going to get some good reviews and some bad reviews and that's how it goes. I don't write for the reviews.

Jodi Picoult

GoodMyselfGameNegativeThinkYou

Life's too short to be spending all your waking hours doing something you're not excited about. And when people are that excited, you can see it in the work.

John Knoll

LifeWorkPeopleShortDoingYou

When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.

Stephen Vizinczey

EyesGreatnessYouTragedyYour

The thing about football is when you've got guys that work hard and do things the right way, it'll come together... it's supposed to if you put the work in.

Stefon Diggs

WorkFootballTogetherWork HardYou

I was born in Budapest, Hungary, and moved to the United States in 1956. It was during the Hungarian Revolution when Russian tanks rolled into Budapest, and my family - me, my brother, and my parents - escaped over the border to Austria. We just took whatever we could carry. It was perilous, but we made it across.

Tommy Ramone

FamilyBrotherParentsMeBorder

I'd love to host a game show one day. I love giving things away.

Ross Mathews

LoveDayGameGivingOne DayThings

TV started for me just as a means of keeping my husband Desi off the road. He'd been on tour with his band since he got out of the Army, and we were in our 11th year of marriage and wanted to have children.

Lucille Ball

MarriageChildrenMeRoadHusband

I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

Dolly Parton

LifeMusicStoryMy LifeLife Story

You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College.

Dora Russell

MenManTeaCollegeYouYoung

I'm in politics to change things - if possible, for the better. I was a journalist for a long time, but I had a kind of midlife crisis, and I decided I needed to do something to get on the pitch and stop endlessly kicking over other peoples' sandcastles.

Boris Johnson

ChangeTimePoliticsBetterLong

I love writing. It's one of my favorite jobs. Of the things I get to do, I love sitting in a room and coming up with ideas, and I love going home and pounding them out.

Brian Posehn

LoveHomeIdeasWritingGoing Home

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