#straight

Setting goals can blind you to opportunities. You might be trying to get to point C. When opportunity B comes, you don't even look at it because you're going straight to C. ↗

— Greg Kinnear

#blind #comes #even #get #goals

What NPR did, I'm very proud of, and what NPR stood for is non-racist, non-bigoted, straightforward telling of the news. ↗

— Ron Schiller

#i #news #npr #proud #stood

All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#could #happy #i #parents #straight

All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#could #happy #i #knew #never

If I'm going for advice for anything in my life, I go straight to my father because he has the answers. ↗

— Jessica Simpson

#answers #anything #because #father #go

I was convinced I was worth less than my straight peers. I was at best inauthentic, and the longer I went without amending that dishonesty, the more ashamed I felt. ↗

— James McGreevey

#ashamed #best #convinced #dishonesty #felt

We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#fortune #greater #look #may #otherwise

What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line. ↗

— Earle Brown

#good #hands #head #lies #line

I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the container. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#always #anything #container #could #eat

I have the most eclectic audience - I've got gay, I've got straight, black, white, rich, poor, young, old, in 45 countries. And they don't all come because I'm the Sinatra kid, though that's a big part of it. My biggest successes have come from pop songs that I write myself. ↗

— Michael Buble

#because #big #biggest #black #come