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Irving Stone Quotes

My goal always is to tell a universal story, meaning it's about a person who has an idea, a vision, a dream, an ambition to make the world somewhat less chaotic.

Irving Stone

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: July 14, 1903 - August 26, 1989

Topics

Vision Ambition World Story Goal

I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't.

Jo Brand

People Laugh Jokes Purity Because

Instead of trying crazy diets now, I just live by a few easy rules: I try to stay away from white flour as much as I can - I go for grains and brown rice instead, and I pick lean meats, like chicken or turkey, over red meat most of the time.

Jenna Ushkowitz

Live Time Red Crazy Trying Rules

The key to life, in my opinion, is to hang with good people, to have good people around you all the time because you're always going to have some people who will try and lead you in a certain place, and when the pressure comes on, you want real tough, solid people sitting next to you.

Robert Kraft

Life Good Time People Opinion Key

Americans don't pay much attention to environmental issues, because they aren't sexy. I mean, cleaning up coal plants and reining in outlaw frackers is hugely important work, but it doesn't get anybody's pulse racing.

Jeff Goodell

Work Environmental Plants Sexy Mean

I'm an international baby. I'm happy my parents decided I should be worldwide.

Stefflon Don

Happy Parents Baby Should Decided

A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy.

Stephan Jenkins

Music Day People You Look Down

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Sid Caesar

Life Goals Lived Enjoyed Between

If we weren't running deficits, if we weren't spending more than we were taking in, there would be no reason whatsoever to increase the debt ceiling.

Ron Johnson

Debt More Reason Ceiling No Reason

I'm born into the cycle of giving that we're all born into, and I recognize it. So just because something is a good business, I'm not a business guy. I'm a creative guy.

Russell Simmons

Good Business Creative Giving Born

You put this face on television, week in, week out, they'd stop me and they'd say, 'Hey, Roy, how are you doing?' They'd know who I was, what I was, what I looked like, and what I did - all from seeing and hearing it at the same time on television.

Roy Clark

Time Me Face Doing Week You

I was working at the 'New York Times,' ruing every second of my life, thinking how was I ever going to get out of here, and thinking that one could only do it the way newspaper people have always done it. I needed a scoop, and I would go out and I would dream upon coming upon fires or the sky falling in front of me or anything.

Michael Wolf

Life Sky New York People Me My Life

White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant.

Joni Mitchell

White Africa Rhythm Vocabulary Used