Combination Quotes - page 18

What was most important to me at the Olympics was going out there and performing my best. When I messed up the first jump combination, which was my big move, it hit me that I messed up the program of my life. (Debi Thomas)
Campaigns often make standing on principle the highest of virtues - and listening to your opponents a sure sign of weakness. It's the virtual opposite of what it takes to succeed in office. Squaring the circle takes a powerful combination of skills. But presidents who can campaign and compromise are generally the most successful. View quote
Dee Dee Myers
My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position. View quote
Denise Mina
I'm really not that weird. I'm a combination of a lot of different things. Maybe it's just easier to make me look weird than another model who is specifically Caucasian. View quote
Devon Aoki
So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear. View quote
Diana Krall
Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are the uniquest. And that uniqueness of being human, language, art, culture, our dependency on culture for survival, comes from the combination of traditional biological evolution. View quote
Donald Johanson
We didn't win a Super Bowl together, and that's something I'll always regret not knowing what that feels like. But you and I have won more games together than any quarterback and coach combination in the history of the NFL. View quote
Dan Marino
The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time. View quote
Drew Gilpin Faust
I live between Barcelona and Berlin. Staying in Spain over the winter and Berlin for spring and summer is an ideal combination. View quote
Daniel Bruhl
Believing in who you are is a major part of a powerful combination for success. View quote
Darren Johnson
Being in L.A. has definitely given me the opportunity to experience how my music sounds in real life because I can drive around and listen to the mixes, which I couldnt do in New York. I get to feel how a song works in combination with a sunset and a drive through the mountains. (Dave Sitek)
I saw Alien when I was 8 years old. To me, it was like a combination of Jaws and Star Wars and that's the movie that made me want to be a director. View quote
Eli Roth
I need to push myself. I'm not saying that I just want to do anything that's shocking, but when you have that combination of a script that's really beautiful and extremely shocking, it's exciting for me. View quote
Emily Browning
To operate a company of the size of Sears Holdings or Wal-Mart or Target or Home Depot or Lowe's, you need a combination of skills, and each of those skills needs to be sufficiently strong. View quote
Edward Lampert
I like Taiwanese food, of course. I like baguettes, especially the ones that my dad buys. Vancouver has a lot of variety, with pizza, hot dogs, Italian, Indian, seafood - a great combination of culture. View quote
Godfrey Gao
Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end. View quote
Graeme Le Saux
The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted. View quote
Galen Rowell
Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure. View quote
Graydon Carter
Women's golf definitely hit a bump in the road. We lost some tournaments due to a combination of things led by the downturn in the economy. View quote
Hollis Stacy
I've been lucky. I've made films that I really like. It's been a combination of what comes to me and what I choose. I've gone after lots of things that I didn't get, pet projects that everybody ends up chasing after. Really, you're lucky if you get anything. View quote
Hope Davis
In the case of Five-O, I believe it was a combination of many ingredients - timing, chemistry, Hawaii. (James MacArthur)
On the other track I got to talk with Jon Poll, my editor, and we go into more detail about the decisions we made in both the production and the post-production. So I hope the combination becomes something worth collecting. View quote
Jay Roach
Early, when I first started wrestling, I wanted to be a combination of Sting and the Ultimate Warrior: The Ultimate Warrior's craziness and weird personality and Sting's coolness and the way he carried himself to the ring. But then later on, when it came to physicality and athleticism, Shawn Michaels topped the cake. View quote
Jeff Hardy
It's such a strange combination that I'd be unhappy to make anything like that without Landis directing. View quote
Jenny Agutter
The Hussein regime's support for terrorism, within and outside of its borders, its appetite for the world's most dangerous weapons, and its openly declared hostility to the United States were a combination that was a gathering and growing danger to our country. View quote
Jim Gerlach