attitude

Quotations

Quotations on the topic of ‘attitude’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).

  • “I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.” -Kurt Cobain

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  • “We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it.” -William Griffith Wilson

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  • “If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.” -Vic Snyder

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  • “My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.” -Ellen Willis

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  • “I also had a mistaken attitude towards certain comrades.” -Bela Kun

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  • “I film quite a bit of footage, then edit. Changes before your eyes, things you can do and things you can’t. My attitude is always ‘let it keep rolling.’” -Terrence Malick

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  • “Global political conditions make a direct American intervention difficult, but President Reagan’s messianic and visceral attitude toward the Nicaraguan revolution could mean it will happen as an act of desperation.” -Tomas Borge

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  • “Muslims have a very bad attitude to homosexuality, they’re very intolerant.” -Pim Fortuyn

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  • “Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.” -Ferguson Jenkins

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  • “My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.” -Arthur Holly Compton

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  • “A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people.” -Bessie Head

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  • “The attitude of the actor is his interpretation of what he reads, and the written word is what creates the role in the actor’s mind, and I guess in reading the things that were given to me, I reacted as you guys saw me, you know.” -Gene Barry

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  • “I can’t believe the pro-choicers attitude toward unborn children-to me it’s the ultimate liberal cause, to defend those without a voice.” -Michael Aston

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  • “An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him.” -William Minto

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  • “Even when I’m playing someone named Fat Amy, I’m all about confidence and attitude.” -Rebel Wilson

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  • “Our spiritual attitude is determined by our conception of our relation to infinite spirit.” -Paul Twitchell

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  • “It’s really interesting with art-movies too, but art especially – to see how your attitude toward artists and works and your level of appreciation of them is always shifting and changing over the years.” -Richard Hell

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  • “My opponents attitude is, ‘If it moves, tax it, if it keeps moving, regulate it and when it stops, subsidize it.” -Rob Simmons

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  • “The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial… his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.” -Georg Baselitz

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  • “Somehow, the greater the public opposition to the health care bill, the more determined they seem to force it on us anyway. Their attitude shows Washington at its very worst – the presumption that they know best, and they’re going to get their way whether the American people like it or not.” -Scott Brown

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  • “You know, who cares about seeing the girls when everybody wants to see the band. That’s what’s important, KISS is important. I think we look great, and the attitude is there, and I’m real happy with it.” -Eric Carr

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  • “Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude.” -Bart Starr

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  • “I’m going to try to enjoy the All-Star break, hope my players reflect on what happened the first half of the season, come back with a different attitude, try to find our solution on how to win it.” -Don Baylor

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  • “I won’t say there aren’t any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.” -Derek Bok

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  • “Its attitude, which it has preached and practiced, is skepticism. Now, it finds, the public is applying that skepticism to the press.” -Thomas Griffith

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  • “Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.” -Henry S. Haskins

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  • “When I drank, I had a very different attitude towards my playing. It was sloppier but I kind of liked it that way. It was like the alcohol was telling my mind what to do.” -Mick Mars

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  • “I think we’re in good hands. There’s definitely much more momentum in bringing in good things to help support the show. Everyone’s got a good attitude about it and I think that makes all the difference.” -Crystal Chappell

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  • “That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia did not deal with applied physics.” -Gordon Gould

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  • “My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It’s about making the best kind of image I can make, it’s about talking as clearly as I can.” -Jim Dine

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  • “The attitude of the people proves that not only do we want to, but that we can succeed in pulling our country out of the difficult position it finds itself in. The banking system of our country will survive and grow.” -Nicos Anastasiades

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  • “Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn’t like that attitude.” -Bill Mauldin

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  • “Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades.” -Florence Kelley

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  • “Bader’s philosophy was my philosophy. His whole attitude to life was mine.” -Kenneth More

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  • “Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don’t, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.” -Vernon A. Walters

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  • “There has been a change in attitude, though.” -Daniel Petrie

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  • “I want to work with kids and help develop them, show them the right way, the right morals and attitude into how to become a better footballer. Australia has many different cultures but I’d like to bring in the indigenous style, bring their competitiveness, athleticism and raw ability into the frame.” -Timothy F. Cahill

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  • “There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it’s euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.” -Ed McMahon

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  • “My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward.” -Parker Posey

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  • “If I don’t make the team out of spring training, I’ll keep a good attitude. I’ll just go polish up the parts of my game that made me not stay in the big leagues.” -Cory Lidle

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  • “If a site is done with pleasure and a fun attitude, it’s a great way to communicate with your fans.” -Christopher Lambert

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  • “I know a lot of Eastern Europeans, and because of what they have been through and what they have seen, they have an attitude where they are not easily fooled.” -Francine Prose

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  • “I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes’ cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.” -Tony Hillerman

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  • “In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure – and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.” -Naveen Jain

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  • “I came on to the film with a very happy-go-lucky attitude which I think my character, Charlie, did when she went into the house. I expected it to be good, and then slowly things started to change for us all.” -Jennifer Sky

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  • “I have the same attitude with work – I like to go to work, I like to work really hard I, like to give everything my all, I like to try things that are new, you know.” -Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

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  • “There does not seem to be that collegiality I referred to, there seems to be much more of a them versus us attitude, rather than we all have a role to play in this process so let’s get on with it.” -Len G. Murray

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  • “I will not get very far with this attitude.” -Nancy Cartwright

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  • “Turkey wants a policy of engagement exactly like President Obama’s new approach. Policy of engagement, less confrontation, less tense attitude, especially in the region.” -Ahmet Davutoglu

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  • “I was entirely natural and in many ways I have the same attitude now. I don’t mourn the loss of my youth because I believe you should enjoy what you have while you have it.” -Koo Stark

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  • “Our new attitude is how can we put you in front of our customer.” -Terry Semel

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  • “Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear.” -Alvin Adams

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  • “After the first miscarriage, I tried to take the attitude that it was my body’s way of telling me that this pregnancy wasn’t meant to be.” -Christie Brinkley

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  • “Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.” -Simon Raven

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  • “America won the Cold War by protecting our strategic resources from the threat of foreign control. We must bring the same attitude to our trade relationship with China.” -Jo Ann Emerson

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  • “When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque.” -Rick Santelli

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  • “If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it – London, the people of the south.” -Martin C. Smith

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  • “If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial.” -Allan Carr

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  • “We can do better in higher education. And it is more than just technology. It’s also an attitude on the part of faculty. We need to think through how we can produce a better quality product at less cost.” -Roy Romer

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  • “In terms of work I’ve always had a Bad Attitude in that I won’t work anywhere which requires me to work strict hours or follow a dress code. I don’t know if that’s an Asperger’s thing or not, I think it’s just being reasonable.” -Bram Cohen

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  • “Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.” -Stuart Chase

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  • “Look, everything that you experience as a kid is the foundation of how you are today. I was brought up in a working class family in Leeds and when it comes to money both my parents worked hard and instilled the same attitude into me.” -Melanie Brown

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  • “With my talent, I can make people laugh and give them another attitude about life. What a blessing that is for me.” -Doris Roberts

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  • “Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.” -Alicia Witt

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  • “When I first left university, I thought about going into the private sector. But I discovered when I went to interview that I could only have a career in the back office, or doing HR. The attitude was, ‘My dear lady, you cannot possibly think about going on the board.’” -Pauline Neville-Jones

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  • “It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude.” -Norm MacDonald

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  • “In regard to music, I just think that it’s always best to have an attitude of being a perpetual student and always look to learn something new about music, because there’s always something new to learn.” -David Sanborn

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  • “Canadians tend to be a bit more religious than most Europeans – though not more than the Poles or Ukrainians. Most important, their attitude to immigration and ethnic minorities is more positive than that of most Europeans.” -Timothy Garton Ash

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  • “The townspeople outside the reservations had a very superior attitude toward Indians, which was kind of funny, because they weren’t very wealthy they were on the fringes of society themselves.” -James Welch

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  • “The money is in a different league these days, of course, but I have special memories of the 60s and 70s which players today don’t have. There wasn’t the same celebrity attitude and media exposure. We had a bit more freedom.” -Peter Shilton

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  • “My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn’t walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.” -James Woods

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  • “All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.” -Graham Chapman

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  • “There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they’re all American and blonde and blue-eyed and smiley. I’m totally the opposite of that. I want to show a bit more attitude and I have an opinion.” -Samantha Mumba

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  • “I try and have a relaxed attitude and stay quite switched off until about an hour before kick-off.” -Roy Keane

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  • “I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life… nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive.” -Leonard Baskin

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  • “In 1977, at least, he wished to have people believe that he shared and was proud of an attitude toward women that is not acceptable in a politician. In 2003, all he has said is that he doesn’t remember the interview.” -Michael Kinsley

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  • “You’d like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can do for my sport is to be the best at it. The best way people will come to recognise that track and field is a great sport is to see athletes excelling at…

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  • “So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position.” -Thom Mayne

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  • “Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox brethren recognize only the Holy Land, but not the state.” -Norman Lamm

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  • “I just try to try to keep an attitude that I don’t know what I’m doing. Not to the point where I’m beating myself up, but I just go in thinking that I have a lot to learn. And I hope I still have that attitude 30 years from now.” -Tobey Maguire

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  • “I’m not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict.” -Carroll Shelby

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  • “A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.” -Ted Lindsay

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  • “Before ‘Gangnam Style’ I was not a good attitude artist.” -PSY

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  • “Women didn’t want to be on the stage with other women because they didn’t want their bodies to be compared. They didn’t want another female act opening for them because of this weird competitive and tokenistic attitude.” -Kathleen Hanna

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  • “Listen, whatever makes the movie better. That’s the attitude you have to have.” -Joseph Kosinski

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  • “Reason is an action of the mind knowledge is a possession of the mind but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.” -Michael Ramsey

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  • “Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in ‘Black Mask’ magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world.” -Charles Frazier

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  • “I don’t think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.” -Tatyana Tolstaya

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  • “My agent says that I’m a ‘repeat business guy.’ If you hire me to come do a movie, I’ll be on time, know all my material, be ready to go, have a good attitude. I’m here to work, so I get hired over and over again by the same producers. If you just be a…

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  • “What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?” -Clifford D. Simak

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  • “I still have a young attitude.” -Pat Morita

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  • “The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn’t cross the road to see them. It’s people who have this indefinable attitude that are the good ones.” -Nick Lowe

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  • “After working for years in Hollywood where the actors have taken over, it was a real relief to get down there and not only have some children, but also have some actors that had no attitude.” -Phillip Noyce

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  • “Having a child makes you strong and gives you chutzpah. It relaxed my attitude to the job my center of focus shifted, which I think is very helpful, because even if you’re not a very indulgent actor you spend a lot of time thinking about yourself. I don’t think that is particularly healthy.” -Imelda Staunton

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  • “I always had the attitude that I wanted to throw a no-hitter every game.” -Dennis Eckersley

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  • “I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue.” -Guillermo del Toro

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  • “Sid Vicious began the age of participation in which everyone could be the artist. Sid proved that you don’t have to play well to be the star. You can play badly, or not even at all. I endorsed that attitude. If you can’t write songs, no problem – simply steal one and change it to…

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  • “Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.” -Edward Heath

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  • “Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.” -Bill Veeck

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  • “Football is my profession now. I’m getting married in August… It’s a new experience for me as someone just getting out of college. I still have the same attitude about football I always had. I play hard. I enjoy practice. I’d rather be throwing in passing drills than sitting around and watching TV.” -Doug Flutie

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  • “The attitude we have towards our personal pets as opposed to the animals that suffer under the factory farm is hypocritical and delusional.” -James Cromwell

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  • “Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction… Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language.” -Evan Parker

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  • “I saw ‘Taxi Driver,’ and ‘Taxi Driver’ kind of saved my life. The scene where Robert De Niro is looking at himself in the mirror saying, ‘You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? Who the hell else are you talkin’ to?’ That’s the scene that changed my life by changing my attitude about acting.”…

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  • “I’ve always been a guy who’s pretty supportive, its just my nature, so I came in to the situation with the attitude that I wanted to support Johnny and make it work.” -Rick Derringer

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  • “I thought I was going to be killed. The casualties were so heavy, it was just a given. I learned to take each day, each mission, as it came. That’s an attitude I’ve carried into my professional life. I take each case, each job, as it comes.” -Elliot Richardson

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  • “What has happened is that to some degree they have taken an attitude where they don’t listen to demos of diverse subject matters. They’re looking for demos like the record the guy on the left just did.” -Grandmaster Flash

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  • “Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East.” -Marvin Harris

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  • “The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large.” -Wilhelm Wundt

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  • “This generation… they have a different attitude. Instead of sitting and watching something, they want to be a part of it – they’re very hedonistic and sensual.” -Steve Wynn

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  • “We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past.” -Aleksander Kwasniewski

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  • “I think that generally music should be a positive thing, I like Bob Marley’s attitude: he said that his goal in life was to single handedly fight all the evil in the world with nothing but music, and when he went to a place he didn’t go to play, he went to conquer.” -Jon Fishman

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  • “It’s better for me to play with guys because Rock ‘n’ Roll has such an aggressive attitude.” -Lita Ford

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  • “I always give Lindsay so much credit for her tennis game, for her attitude, for her person, and because of how she deals with all the things. I don’t think people give her enough credit for how well she’s doing.” -Martina Hingis

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  • “I don’t know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom – she’s the coolest. She’s worked really hard her whole life and I just think she’s got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it’s so silly.” -Larisa Oleynik

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  • “It’s tricky. I’ve never been standing at the top of the tree with tons of money thrown at me. I’ve never really had a profile. So in a way I have this ‘nothing to lose’ attitude.” -Joel Edgerton

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  • “Lead singers not only do the majority of the work, but their personalities are singled out and taken as the general attitude of the unit.” -Martha Reeves

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  • “I think Nina Simone has had an amazing journey. She was spicy and she had attitude and she didn’t care, she wanted her money in a paper bag and don’t mess with me and I’ve been doing some research on that so.” -Nia Long

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  • “I kind of resent this attitude of men that we somehow must always look good.” -Sharon Gless

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  • “Bambi can’t act. Bambi had major attitude.” -Treat Williams

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  • “I’m a big fan of Courtney Love. I love Hole and I love her acting and I love her attitude. I just hope I never meet her in a dark alley.” -Jeff Ross

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  • “I do support a sex-positive attitude for young people. Use condoms, that’s important. I love the idea that promiscuity can be healthy but it’s got some dodgy crevasses. Ooh, that’s a bad reference! But it’s got some dangerous cavities there. You know what I’m saying.” -Rachael Taylor

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  • “The war changed everybody’s attitude. We became international almost overnight.” -W. Averell Harriman

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  • “As I wrote, I found that Aibileen had some things to say that really weren’t in her character. She was older, soft-spoken, and she started showing some attitude.” -Kathryn Stockett

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  • “I like England more than I did when I left. It’s become a bit of a better country in the last ten years, in the attitude of it. A bit more Americanized, which is both good and bad. At least when you order a cup of coffee they don’t give you a hard time.” -Teddy…

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  • “What a stupid attitude we have in this country to personal stories.” -Amanda Burton

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  • “I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it’s all going to be disastrous. That it hasn’t all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.” -Antony Sher

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  • “My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them.” -Frank Press

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  • “Tommie Aaron taught me how to have a good attitude, to be easy going and not get uptight.” -Dale Murphy

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  • “In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.” -Marya Mannes

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  • “In Scotland over many years we have cultivated through our justice system what I hope can be described as a ‘culture of compassion.’ On the other hand, there still exists in many parts of the U.S., if not nationally, an attitude towards the concept of justice which can only be described as a ‘culture of…

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  • “Any time I need to get a serious attitude adjustment, I put on one of their records, and there are examples there for all time to keep us honest and keep us reaching they’ll never be eclipsed.” -Benny Green

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  • “I’m not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I’ve never had that attitude to music.” -Harrison Birtwistle

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  • “My attitude on skis is different now. I have learned to put less pressure on myself and on the edges of my skis when I’m racing, to be keep myself more under control.” -Hermann Maier

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  • “Our attitude is that we want to cross over. You can’t go on making records just for your own hometown.” -Cheryl James

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  • “I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain’s place is in Europe.” -Peter Mandelson

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  • “I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it’s very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.” -E. P. Thompson

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  • “The Stones are a different kind of group. I realized that when I joined them. It’s not really so much their musical ability, it’s just they have a certain kind of style and attitude which is unique.” -Mick Taylor

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  • “Even with, or perhaps, because of, this background, I have over the past few years sensed a very dramatic change in attitude on the part of Prince Edward Islanders towards the on-going rush for so-called modernization.” -Alex Campbell

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  • “If you’re looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you’ve got to go to Wisconsin.” -Dar Williams

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  • “When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody.” -John McGahern

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  • “You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it.” -Miranda Richardson

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  • “People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm – there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.” -Salman Khan

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  • “I just want to go in with the right attitude and from Day 1 make a difference.” -Freddy Adu

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  • “I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.” -Diane Wakoski

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  • “When you Google me, you’ll find a lot of people don’t like Richard Dreyfuss. Because I’m cocky and I present a cocky attitude. But no one has ever disagreed with the notion I represent, that we need more civic education. So far there’s 100 percent support for that.” -Richard Dreyfuss

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  • “My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I’m very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I’d save it for like five months. And then I’d spend it on Christmas presents. I’d save up like eight pounds. It’s…

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  • “Too many people say to their brokers, I can’t deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. That’s the worst attitude you can have.” -Maria Bartiromo

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  • “If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.” -Karl Jaspers

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  • “I am shocked by the easy attitude of many in the media towards disclosing our Nation’s secrets.” -Todd Tiahrt

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  • “The pool is terrible, but that doesn’t have much to do with my record swims. That’s all mental attitude.” -Mark Spitz

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  • “Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me.” -Steve Buscemi

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  • “Fame can be just so annoying because people are so critical of you. You can’t just say, ‘hi’. You say hi and people whisper’ man did you see the way she said hi? What an attitude.” -Juliette Lewis

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  • “My dad instilled in me a great sense of humor. I wasn’t bullied at school because my outward attitude was confident, and that helps.” -Warwick Davis

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  • “The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture.” -Donald Judd

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  • “You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.” -Alan Perlis

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  • “Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.” -Donald Knuth

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  • “It goes without saying that the Jewish people can have no other goal than Palestine and that, whatever the fate of the proposition may be, our attitude toward the land of our fathers is and shall remain unchangeable.” -Theodor Herzl

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  • “That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn’t do so now.” -John Schlesinger

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  • “The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else’s attitude was time I could put to better use.” -Charley Pride

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  • “I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.” -Taylor Hackford

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  • “It is impossible to exaggerate the wide, and widening, gulf between the American attitude on the Iraq war and the view from our friends across the Atlantic.” -Nick Clooney

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  • “As a team, you need to come from behind every once in awhile just to do it. Good for the attitude. It makes it exciting. And when everybody knows you have to throw it… that makes it fun too.” -Dan Marino

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  • “I hope ‘The Voice’ has a fifteen-year run, don’t get me wrong. But I come from nothing, and maybe it’s the Irish in me, but my attitude is always like, ‘They’ll figure me out soon.’” -Carson Daly

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  • “Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.” -John Cale

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  • “‘UFO’s’ attitude toward the subject is very similar to mine. It’s not an advocacy its philosophy is more ‘I want to believe this, but I want it proved.’” -Dwight Schultz

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  • “The music is first and foremost everything – no egos, no attitude, nothing – it’s about the music.” -Big Boi

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  • “But having said that, there’s also a sea change in attitude towards media.” -Robert McChesney

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  • “In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.” -Youssou N’Dour

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  • “Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling… It’s the attitude that’s in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.” -August Wilson

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  • “My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death now I see it from my son’s perspective.” -Rufus Sewell

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  • “The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.” -Gary Locke

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  • “The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.” -Edward Sapir

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  • “I feel like I have as good a shot as anybody out there and I have gotten close in the past, so why not have the attitude that I can come out and play great tennis and maybe even win this tournament.” -Michael Chang

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  • “Art is the child of Nature yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother’s face, her aspect and her attitude.” -Beck

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  • “I just think that people take me a little more seriously as a brunette. I don’t know if that’s just because of a societal preconceived notion that all blondes are stupid, but it’s a different kind of attitude.” -Kate Bosworth

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  • “I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn’t expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.” -Neil Diamond

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  • “The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.” -Michael Korda

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  • “Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it’s a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.” -Emmylou Harris

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  • “Only one thing can conquer war – that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation.” -Ludwig von Mises

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  • “It’s not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.” -Alain Prost

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