- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Walk Quotes
Every step says something.
These walk quotes range from literal strides through city streets under watchful cameras to the swagger of someone who owns a room the moment they enter it, alongside reflections on why some people can't walk away from work they love. Readers drawn to this theme often also browse our Life quotes for more on personal direction.
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a nice person is about courtesy: you're friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd think the house was the source of great sadness or pressure. I knew it wasn't. I knew it was just where I lived. But I'd walk up the stairs and the second floor was just desolate. My old bedroom: empty. My old rehearsal room: empty. First floor studio: messy and empty. Middle room: broken gear everywhere.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I walked in to read with Edie Falco, it was nice, because I auditioned in New York, and it was very quick. You walk in, there's Edie, the producers, the director, and a camera. I read three scenes, and it was done.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 15, I worked as a bag boy in a grocery store. I also needed to walk old ladies to their car and put their bags in the car, and they would give me two dollars. I felt like the richest man in the world.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to be a comedic actor - that's what I wanted from the job - to do comedy and to create my own comedy. But I still love doing stand-up and will probably be doing it forever. I'd love to be an old guy who can't really walk, can't really stand-up, and I have to sit on the stool and tell jokes.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, my number one guy would be Tanahashi from New Japan Pro-Wrestling. Like, watching him, like, this guy is a bonafide rockstar over in Japan. He can't even walk down the street without getting stopped, the way that he carries himself.
- Front Door
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we're getting to the point where everyone's getting fat and everyone's getting allergic, or claims to be allergic to something and people can't walk from their front door to their car without a bottle of water in their hand because they have to hydrate every three and half steps.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't cruise the Internet looking for your name and walk away with a good feeling. So, I never do it.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't walk into the lab in the morning thinking, 'I am a woman, and I will carry out an experiment that will conquer the world.' I am a scientist, not male or female. A scientist.
- Excellence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who have learned to walk on the threshold of the unknown worlds, by means of what are commonly termed par excellence the exact sciences, may then, with the fair white wings of imagination, hope to soar further into the unexplored amidst which we live.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's always good to walk in a room and know everybody kind of looks up to you because I guess I've earned it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I understand entertaining. You want people to walk out saying, 'I spent a night with interesting people.'
- Emanate
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- Nov 07, 2020