Taftsd90 Quotes & Sayings

There is no fate ... no predestination ... no luck. Don't use that as an excuse to not live the life you want. Work for it. You make your future - no one else. — Ingrid Weir

It is better for the intellectual not to talk all the time. To begin with, it would exhaust him, and, above all, it would keep him from thinking. He must create if he can, first and foremost, especially if his creation does not side-step the problems of his time. — Albert Camus

Your mind can destroy your life! Mind your mind; think well! Detoxify your thought and be free! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I wake up every morning happy for where I am in life. It's not all about the cooking, but the fact that I can contribute by using my influence to help people all over the country. In the last two years, my partners and I have fed more than 10 million hungry people by bringing meat to food banks. — Paula Deen

I write every day ... I never get ideas unless I'm actually writing. Ideas I get in the shower don't do me any good. — Janet Fitch

The man who goes through life with an uncertain doctrine not knowing what he believes, what a poor, powerless creature he is! He goes around through the world as a man goes down through the street with a poor, wounded arm, forever dodging people be meets on the street for fear they may touch him. — Phillips Brooks

In some ways, people forget about average working people, and how they live their lives. — Lee Scott

My journey has been very nice and gradual and steady. And I've found that my development as a human is very much synchronized to my journey as an artist. It's felt very organic since the beginning. And every step allows me to grow a little more. — Jade Hassoune

Dick Clark is an American icon. I am honored that he has entrusted me with such a role in this national tradition. — Ryan Seacrest

I always encourage authors (especially new authors) to be as generous as we are blessed. For one thing, it is a way to help people. For another, it is a seed one is planting for the life of the book. Someone gave it to someone who gave it to someone else. — Andy Andrews

I was quite eager to work, anytime somebody was offering me a job, if I liked the role. Because I was always very discriminating from the very beginning, in the sense that I had absolutely no problem saying no to jobs when they came along if somehow they didn't fit into my universe - whatever that was. — Karen Allen

I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre. — Kate Bush