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In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is all they know about, they are missing out on much else life has to offer. ↗

— Dennis Flanagan

#about #age #else #know #life

Gillette--The best a man can get." I stared at the screen. What happened to me? I was meant to be one of those guys, vigorous and athletic and successful and, most of all, American. I was going to walk on the moon, be a movie star or a rock got or a comedian. I was going to have an amazing life and kids with Helen and die like Chaplin a thousand years from now in my Beverly Hills mansion surrounded by my adoring family, with the grieving world media standing by. Instead, I was just another show-business mediocrity. A drunk who shat his pants and ran for help. My life had been careless and selfish. Pleasure in the moment was my only thought, my solitary motivation. I had disappointed whoever had been foolish enough to love me, and left them scarred. I was a very long way from being the best a man can get. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#contemplation #love #realization #rehab #business

The height of human achievement and glory, Muhammad. ↗

— Pringle Kennedy

#amazing #atheist #christian #culture #direction

We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#been #corners #days #disturbing #forum

The NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was called a Code Authority. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#association #authority #called #code #each

She stood by the tea-table in a light-coloured muslin gown, which had a good deal of pink about it. She looked as if she was not attending to the conversation, but solely busy with the tea-cups, among which her round ivory hands moved with pretty, noiseless, daintiness. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#gown #ivory-hands #miss-hale #muslin #pink

On Eye of the Zombie, I had so-called studio musicians. ↗

— John Fogerty

#had #i #musicians #so-called #studio

For me, college wasn't a breeze. I had 8 o'clock classes, I worked from 3 to 11 at the Settlement House. On weekends, if Northwestern Bell needed me, I'd troubleshoot for them, and I had a steady girl. God! ↗

— Henry Fonda

#breeze #classes #clock #college #girl

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route. ↗

— Malcolm Forbes

#colleagues #desk #doubt #dozen #initials

I was making a film called The White Tower at the foot of Mont Blanc - the one thing I learned from that experience was that it's more difficult to go down a mountain than to go up. A lot of people don't realize that. ↗

— Glenn Ford

#called #difficult #down #experience #film