C. H. Douglas Quotes

I think I would go for a Michael Phelps kind of guy.

I googled 'Gabby Douglas,' and all these things popped up like 'Gabby Douglas makes history!' And 'She's the champion!'

It's definitely important to have your mom and family there to back you up and cheering from the stands.

It's very tough for me to focus. I'm like: 'Look, something shiny! No, focus. Oh, there goes a butterfly!'

I've been on a tweeting mission.

Nothing is going to change. I’m going to wear my hair like this during beam and bar finals. You might as well stop talking about it.

Remember me when I am dead and simplify me when I'm dead.

You can't prove you're an American by waving Old Glory.

Character isn't inherited.

I know the force women can exert in directing the course of events.

The word that best sums up this team is sacrifice.

I really had to create my own style, because it's kind of hard being a 6-1 defensive end. I'm really like 6-4 - really.

I have some flamboyant outfits. It wouldn't be me if I didn't. But I'm married now. I'm not allowed to wear those outfits.

I know in this day and age, when you meet men, they often want to be boys. They dress like boys. And it's very confusing. I can't offer any solution except to make a movie about it.

I like doing movies that relate to people's experience.

When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

It's nice to see a movie where people are actually succeeding.

In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.

The best situation is where they cast you and then they trust you.

Women don't want to be listened to. They only want to be agreed with

I like the idea of capturing people who aren't there to save the world.

God only knows what else is on the web about me.

There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering.

I don't believe it is in the state's interest to industrialize our ridge lines.

By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional family of America.

TV depends very much on the pictures that you see on your television, and all the other things that come up on the screen, whether it be GFX, the studio or the pictures of the game.

I really enjoy doing what I do. I enjoy seeing live sport performed at the highest level. What's wonderful about sport is that it involves everybody, everybody has an opinion.

The lowlights... Sometimes you're away from home quite a lot, which can be difficult. It's not first class all the way, you don't stay in exotic hotels and have people running after you.

It's a lot of luck and being in the right place at the right time, that's what I think. Obviously you need to be noticed by people to be given the opportunities, and I think you do have to work hard.

I worked very hard as a young journalist learning the trade and asking questions, understanding what a story is and being able to present that in a way that people would find interesting.

Whether you work in news, sport, politics, whatever, it's exactly the same; a story is a story, is a story. I consider myself first and foremost a journalist.

Get involved and learn how to recognise a story happening in front of you. Learn how to ask questions and be curious. That's probably my biggest piece of advice.

They're [sportsmen] willing to give up a lot of other things that perhaps we all enjoy doing: eating and drinking and playing or whatever. They give up an awful lot to perform at the highest level.

I've learned that the effort sportsmen and women put in is incredible. Their commitment to their sport is phenomenal. Sometimes as a viewer, as a sports fan, you only see the end result.

I think because I came from a very strong news background and people were aware of me from that side of things, they appreciated me as a journalist. Maybe it was less difficult for me.

you can never prove God; you can only find Him!

It is very funny, but you do not always have to see people to love them. Just think about it, and see if it isn't so.

When, all at once, you find you have something precious you only dimly suspected was to be yours, you almost wish it hadn't come so soon.

Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues.

You may have noted the fact that it is a person's virtues as often as his vices that make him difficult to live with.

There are certain narrow, umimaginative, and autocratic old people who seem to call out the most mischievous and sometimes the worst traits in children.

To let blessed babies go dangling and dawdling without names, for months and months, was enough to ruin them for life.

You'll never see Spartacus in a (expletive) chair!

Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.

The first time I had got an offer to come to Hollywood, I turned it down. I said, "No, I'm an actor of the stage.

I have been trying to create a campaign to have our country make an apology for slavery, for the way that blacks were treated before the Civil War and after the Civil War.

I've played some good guys as well, in Spartacus, Paths of Glory and my favorite picture, Lonely Are the Brave, so I had a mixture of parts in my life.

With John Wayne, we argued all the time and we made four pictures.

I think the election of [Barack] Obama was a great step to prove to the world that we believe that all men were created equal. I think it will show that we have humility.

I think that [Barack] Obama was elected because young people are starting to get interested in their country and I think that's a very healthy thing.