James Dee Richardson quote: ""I am NOT a loser. And I have never been a quitter---said the fat smoker." (Note that the ending part of my original quote has been deleted from many internet sites. It makes little sense without it--JDR]"

If hard work were really a virtue, then mules would be saints.
JAMES DEE RICHARDSON

I am NOT a loser, and I have never been a quitter.
JAMES DEE RICHARDSON

Every attempt is a success. Failure is letting any chance to try go by.
JAMES DEE RICHARDSON

The weaker the intellect, the stronger the belief
JAMES DEE RICHARDSON

It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is...
JAMES RICHARDSON

On Writing: Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays

1. A beginning ends what an end begins.
JAMES RICHARDSON

If you do more than your share you'd better want to: otherwise, you're paying yourself in a currency...
JAMES RICHARDSON

To me the great divide is between the talkative and the quiet. Do they just say everything that's on...
JAMES RICHARDSON

It's a great privilege for us to have this group come and assist us,
JAMES RICHARDSON

It kind of opened up people's minds to different things. People are learning what different material...
JAMES RICHARDSON

We had some hot buttons we couldn't agree on. We gave the mayor too much power. The mayor would have...
JAMES RICHARDSON

We are suggesting the factory itself will support 1,527 direct and indirect jobs with an annual impa...
JAMES RICHARDSON

I learned a lot from it, but I would not do anything different because I believe in the process.
JAMES RICHARDSON

The high price of fuel and fertilizer has played a significant factor in net returns to farmers. Thi...
JAMES RICHARDSON

We're all squished in trying to figure out how to make it work.
JAMES RICHARDSON

I would never accuse Willie Brown of slowing down, because he never does,
JAMES RICHARDSON

And I'm just a firm believer, if God can forgive me all the stuff I've done, then why can't I forgiv...
JAMES RICHARDSON

When I looked at that young man, I saw someone who could have a second chance to rehabilitate himsel...
JAMES RICHARDSON

You have two kinds of secrets. The ones only you know. The ones only you don't.
JAMES RICHARDSON

My job is to be a spokesman - the spokesman, I suppose - for the President, for the White House, to ...
DEE DEE MYERS

I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a ...
DEE DEE RAMONE

I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but ...
DEE DEE MYERS

I worked for a lot of candidates, in tough campaigns that lost. Most of my candidates lost until Bil...
DEE DEE MYERS

Democrats single out glaring examples of tax preferences or spending priorities that favor the wealt...
DEE DEE MYERS

As women slowly gain power, their values and priorities are reshaping the agenda. A multitude of stu...
DEE DEE MYERS

I was supposed to be authoritative, but at the same time had to be likeable, a quality that is a bon...
DEE DEE MYERS

When I became White House press secretary, there were other limitations that were thrust upon me. Bi...
DEE DEE MYERS

Obama seemed poised to realign American politics after his stunning 2008 victory. But the economy re...
DEE DEE MYERS

Metallica - they're so demonic, they're crazy, I don't know how they do it.
DEE DEE RAMONE

Even tax breaks that are supposed to help the middle class too often skew toward the wealthy. Consid...
DEE DEE MYERS

When I got into rap I didn't exactly win any popularity contests. I called myself Dee Dee King, ...
DEE DEE RAMONE

It was what became something of a pattern in the first couple of years of the Clinton White House an...
DEE DEE MYERS

But research confirms that both Republican and Democratic women are more likely than their male coun...
DEE DEE MYERS

Exponential growth in access to the Internet, satellite television and radio, cell phones, and P.D.A...
DEE DEE MYERS

The press never accepts at face value that the President is taking a certain action because he wants...
DEE DEE MYERS

President Clinton intentionally created a structure that was a little loose. And one that kept him a...
DEE DEE MYERS

This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumptio...
DEE DEE MYERS

Research confirms that both Republican and Democratic women are more likely than their male counterp...
DEE DEE MYERS

On the day I started college in 1979, no woman had ever been on the United States Supreme Court or s...
DEE DEE MYERS

No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inaugurat...
DEE DEE MYERS

Don't interpret anything too much. This is time waster number 1.
DEE DEE ARTNER

When it's about your life, it's time to be selfish.
DEE DEE ARTNER

I used to be a hairdresser.
DEE DEE RAMONE

I look forward to a time, in the not so distant future, when we no longer look forward to 'first...
DEE DEE MYERS

If you have time to whine then you have time to find solution.
DEE DEE ARTNER

It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics...
DEE DEE MYERS

Almost all first ladies have had tremendous power on personnel issues, whether the public realized i...
DEE DEE MYERS

There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in busines...
DEE DEE MYERS

Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to ackn...
DEE DEE MYERS

I was a big troublemaker in the group. I put them through a lot of pain, but as much as I gave to th...
DEE DEE RAMONE

When I joined Bill Clinton's start-up presidential campaign in 1991, I was confident that women ...
DEE DEE MYERS

Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hour...
DEE DEE MYERS

Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled th...
DEE DEE MYERS

During my years as a press secretary, I developed a powerful internal filter, which worked to strip ...
DEE DEE MYERS

In a way I think Bill Clinton is more likely to forgive and move on or at least try to woo people wh...
DEE DEE MYERS

The reason why we are all different is to allow us to; to keep learning about each other so we can k...
DEE DEE ARTNER

Simplicity is the key to happiness.
DEE DEE ARTNER

We haven't seen any red flags to indicate an increase in incidents of inmate-on-inmate or inmate-on-...
DEE DEE SHORT

We encourage the union to express their concerns at monthly labor-management meetings. They can alwa...
DEE DEE SHORT

We have to work within a budget. We feel we are doing that safely and securely and we evaluate this ...
DEE DEE SHORT

I just don't get it.
DEE DEE HORTON

Some teams don't practice hard and do great in games. We're the opposite.
DEE DEE HORTON

I think we're getting it, then we get into a game.
DEE DEE HORTON

Maybe it's stage fright. I ask myself, 'How do we play like this?' We do great in practice. Then in ...
DEE DEE HORTON

The first time I saw him perform was at the Montreal Jazz Festival in 1994 and I cried, and everyone...
DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER

'This Is New' was a beginning for me, a gentle announcement that this was where I was moving. For me...
DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER

There wasn't a whole lot going on in the States for black actresses at the time. I didn't have a rec...
DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER

This album was really my way to say thank you to France for having opened its arms and adopted me, c...
DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER

I got tired of the Ramones around the time I quit and I really got into rap. I thought it was the ne...
DEE DEE RAMONE

You can't leave out half the world's experience and expect to address all the problems. Wome...
DEE DEE MYERS

Women communicate differently and process information differently, which leads them to resolve confl...
DEE DEE MYERS

Around New York, our group had become known as 'Dee Dee and her girls' because we were used ...
DEE DEE WARWICK

I didn't have the confidence to leave the band because of a solo career, or anything like that. ...
DEE DEE RAMONE

Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents ...
DEE DEE MYERS

While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrific...
DEE DEE MYERS

'Not again!' I thought to myself this morning, as news trickled out that John McCain was set...
DEE DEE MYERS

There are many reasons to be simple. It’s simply to learn effectively, to work positively, to comm...
DEE DEE ARTNER

what you don't know will cost you.
DEE DEE ARTNER

I love to teach. Teaching is so important.
DEE DEE DOUGHERTY LOTTIE

People are so welcoming. When you travel to a square dance, you arrive and feel like you are coming ...
DEE DEE DOUGHERTY LOTTIE

I'm just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. I would never think anyone else w...
JACK DEE

Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.
JACK DEE

The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, a...
JACK DEE

I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have rea...
JACK DEE

I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.
JACK DEE

The book is called 'Thanks for Nothing' and it's really the story of how I got into come...
JACK DEE

I don't think anyone's particularly conscious of thinking suits are the thing, but when you ...
JACK DEE

In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet...
JACK DEE

In many ways, not fitting in has been a comedic asset and a comedic resource.
JACK DEE

Possibly I am difficult to live with, but I don't bring my work home much. I'm either busy o...
JACK DEE

I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get e...
JACK DEE

One of my friends went on a murder weekend... now he is doing life for it.
JACK DEE

I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing...
JACK DEE

I don't like men who blow-dry their hair. If you are a man and you blow-dry your hair, then I do...
JACK DEE

One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only sto...
JACK DEE

If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really ...
JACK DEE

I tried to be as thorough as I can, but there is a responsibility that we all have, especially with ...
JACK DEE

The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this ca...
JACK DEE

I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.
JACK DEE

I hate people who think it's clever to take drugs... like custom officers.
JACK DEE

I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendenc...
JACK DEE

Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisp...
JACK DEE

And people are intrigued if I really am as grumpy in real life. People feel a bit let down if I'...
JACK DEE

I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented...
JACK DEE

I'm not really part of any group or clique or gang because that's always been my nature.
JACK DEE

To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and th...
DEE BROWN

Mirrors are perpetually deceitful. They lie and steal your true self. They reveal only what your min...
DEE REMY

When you know my love, my love will warm you.
RUBY DEE

He had only heard of dragons, and although he had never seen one, he was sure they existed.
DEE MARIE

Akan ada satu saat kamu bertanya: pergi ke mana inspirasiku? Tiba-tiba kamu merasa ditinggal pergi. ...
DEE LESTARI

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out...
DEE HOCK

The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while sub...
DEE HOCK

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of t...
DEE HOCK

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.
DEE HOCK

Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now a...
DEE HOCK

Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. No...
DEE HOCK

Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.
DEE HOCK

If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it clearly possessed the capacity to receive, ...
DEE HOCK

If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its e...
DEE HOCK

It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most ex...
DEE HOCK

Make another list of things done for you that you loved. Do them for others, always.
DEE HOCK

The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how th...
DEE HOCK

Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do them to others, ever.
DEE HOCK

What will become compellingly important is absolute clarity of shared purpose and set of principles ...
DEE HOCK

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral.
DEE HOCK

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates', then you know ...
DEE HOCK

Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
DEE HOCK

Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence ...
DEE HOCK

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out...
DEE HOCK

If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, pr...
DEE HOCK

Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else i...
DEE HOCK

Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.
DEE HOCK

It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radi...
DEE HOCK

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may litera...
DEE HOCK

An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.
DEE HOCK

Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.
DEE HOCK

I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one.
DEE BROWN

Well then, take this thought with you for the dark hours to come: It is a ludicrous fiction that lov...
CHRIS DEE

John Dos Passos, Raymond Carver, Flaubert and William Maxwell were all very influential when I first...
JONATHAN DEE

I'm a childless woman, yet I felt no maternal urges whatsoever. The prospect of years of broken ...
KIKI DEE

Chase your dreams until you catch them...and then dream, catch, and dream again!
DEE MARIE

To me, it's part of the success of the program, placing as many kids in school as we possibly can. I...
BILL DEE

We've got some kids in new positions, and that will get better. That's why you scrimmage good people...
BILL DEE

Everybody's worrying about our tailback, but I think we got a good one. He's just got to hold on to ...
BILL DEE

We played one game, and let's be honest, it wasn't against a very good football team.
BILL DEE

When you're an aggressive football team, you're gonna get some penalties, but you just don't want st...
BILL DEE

It's a tough situation for those kids. He said he can't wait to get home. He's already homesick.
BILL DEE

I was real proud of him. I told him his overall win percentage is better than mine now.
BILL DEE

The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.
RUBY DEE

Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.
DEE HOCK

There's no path to being a writer that's applicable to everyone. Some young writers have the...
JONATHAN DEE

I was born Pauline Matthews and grew up in Bradford as one of three children - I had an older brothe...
KIKI DEE

I love you, in my mind where my thoughts reside, in my heart where my emotions live, and in my soul ...
DEE HENDERSON

Nothing lives long
Only the earth and mountains
DEE BROWN

If I'm pushed, I'd also have to admit I don't like people with allergies. They just anno...
JACK DEE

Don't get me wrong: I can and do waste time on the Internet with the best of them, but in some r...
JONATHAN DEE

Dia, yang tidak pernah kamu mengerti. Dia, racun yang membunuhmu perlahan. Dia, yang kamu reka dan k...
DEE LESTARI

Because he was my jockey,
DEE ANDERSON

Gary is one lucky guy to have Amy.
DEE ANDERSON

Currently there are no agreed-upon definitions. It won't end up apples to apples.
DEE ANDERSON

I've legged you up on winners - do you want me to leg you up now?
DEE ANDERSON

It's up to Gary. He's not some spectacle.
DEE ANDERSON

The essence of my work, and of me, is the softer side of a strong woman, and that goes into a number...
DEE WALLACE

There were many things he had to tell her, but what he really needed to say was simple. “I’ve mi...
BONNIE DEE

When he finally broke off the kiss and moved his lips to her neck, then her breast again, sucking he...
BONNIE DEE

Jim had spent most of his life alone. The solitary nature of his disability and the constant moving ...
BONNIE DEE

Hurling the box released some of his anger. It felt good so he swept his arm across the top of his d...
BONNIE DEE

She gazed back at him, her mouth open, gasping for air. Her white blouse rose and fell with each pan...
BONNIE DEE

But, after one quick trace of his tongue between her lips, he abruptly pulled away and stepped back ...
BONNIE DEE

Catherine glimpsed him again, leaning against the wall, arms folded. People passed back and forth be...
BONNIE DEE

She turned to go back inside the livery stable. The excitement with which she’d
entered it le...
BONNIE DEE

I’m sorry. No.” Her mouth continued to move, too fast, pouring out a stream of
explanation ...
BONNIE DEE

All of a sudden, she was there, breaking away from the little group of women and running toward him....
BONNIE DEE

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, d...
RUBY DEE

Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the spirits of things
DEE SNIDER

The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise...
DEE BROWN

I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I fel...
JACK DEE

I seem to have a talent for writing endings that seem just right to me but that frustrate other peop...
JONATHAN DEE

I wrote my first novel in the same conditions as most first novelists - I had a full-time job, I sha...
JONATHAN DEE

This is where I break one last taboo: I'm incredibly glad I'm not a granny.
KIKI DEE

When me and James [Augustine] were sophomores, we had to win out. It's not a big deal. You just have...
DEE BROWN

I have no desire to write historical anything or futuristic anything - I want to find a way to get a...
JONATHAN DEE

Even in the smallest of packages comes the power of strength
DEE WALDECK

Express your feelings on paper when stress is getting on top of you. Learn to exorcise the negative ...
DEE WALDECK

You could say that's the equivalent to a council inspection but it's quite a different beast altoget...
CHRIS DEE

When I was deciding whether to come back, I asked Deron [Williams] and Luther [Head] what I should d...
DEE BROWN

I play basketball. This is what I do. There's a lot of pressure put on me, but I'm a complete player...
DEE BROWN

You just don't give up. There have been times when everything seemed to conspire against getting a b...
DEE BROWN

It's not really an original idea, but there's something that goes along with power and celeb...
JONATHAN DEE

I'm certainly not at all convinced that the Galapagos penguin is going to go extinct because of this...
DEE BOERSMA

Di tengah gurun yang tertebak, jadilah salju abadi. Embun pagi tak akan kalahkan dinginmu, angin mal...
DEE LESTARI

We had idyllic summer holidays, building sandcastles with my father on the beach at Bridlington. It ...
KIKI DEE

It's one tiny baby step forward.
DEE MILLER

Miss Selina, you have over the past minutes—as in the past months, and indeed, in all the years of...
CHRIS DEE

The sky's the limit only if you think it is.
JAY DEE

You can't change where you're from, but you can change where you're going.
JAY DEE

There are some great shots of the ECHO offices, with seagulls circling above the tower.
JOHN DEE

The animal-person connection plays a big role.
JOHN DEE

The mid-section of the nation might start to cool to at least average levels by the weekend and into...
JOHN DEE

The big Northeast coastal snowstorm is over and temperatures actually look to warm to above average ...
JOHN DEE

"I am NOT a loser. And I have never been a quitter---said the fat smoker." (Note that the ending part of my original quote has been deleted from many internet sites. It makes little sense without it--JDR]

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