P. T. Barnum Quotes

There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.

P. T. Barnum

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DownPersonDebtAnythingLike

The AAU doesn't care about the athletes; why should I care about them?

Steve Prefontaine

CareWhyShouldAthletesAboutThem

In Manipur, mostly the top player's family background is very poor. I also come from a poor family, so we have to do more hard work to get money and a better life.

Mary Kom

LifeWorkFamilyHard WorkMoney

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

CourageMomentYouKindMatters

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

Michel de Montaigne

LifeDeathHouseBuildYourLabour

I listen to all kinds of music. I love underground, new music that's popping.

Juicy J

LoveMusicNewListenKindsPopping

We have this very clean picture of science, you know, these well-established rules with which we make predictions. But when you're really doing science, when you're doing research, you're at the edge of what we know.

Lisa Randall

ScienceResearchPictureDoingYou

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.

Juan Goytisolo

TimePoetryOpinionCriticismDrama

We ended up with 19 hours of footage and had to narrow it down to an hour and a half. Our instructions were to film everything that came up, including the more mundane moments.

Joshua Leonard

MomentsDownMoreEverythingUp

Oh, I'm just too chicken to experiment with my face and have it go wrong. I'm not saying I never will. But it's like, what scares you more? Getting old or looking weird?

Diane Lane

LookingSayingFaceWeirdYouWrong

We're not that far from being able to plant images, memories, and emotional states directly into the brain.

Douglas Trumbull

MemoriesBrainPlantEmotionalBeing

I always liked photography in film - I studied photography growing up. I like the medium of film; I like physically holding 35-mm film. I like the way it looks, the quality when it's projected. I like the way it frames real life.

Doug Liman

LifeQualityGrowing UpPhotography

I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.

Christopher Atkins

SportsDoctorMedicineSailingSort

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