Maverick Quotes
42 quotes by 41 authors
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You know, many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big operations that I've done. I'm not…
— Benjamin Carson
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need…
— Isabel Allende
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The most successful people are mavericks who aren't afraid to ask why, especially when everyone thinks it's obvious.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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It used to be controversial whether smoking caused lung cancer, it used to be controversial whether HIV caused AIDS. Now, there are a few mavericks…
— Martin Rees
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Somebody asked me what do you regret. I said, well I was offered the role of Maverick in 'Top Gun' and I turned it down
— Scott Baio
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Mavericks and its talent deserve this innovation and respect. Now is the time to harness its power for the world to experience. These athletes amaze…
— Griffin Guess
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Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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It's a culmination of your life of surfing when you turn and paddle in at Mavericks.
— Jeff Clark
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Indeed, the construction of a global telegraph network was widely expected, by Briggs and Maverick among others, to result in world peace: 'It is impossible…
— Tom Standage
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Where ever the Mavericks are today, we owe it to Michael Finley. He was the one guy who stayed when we were a terrible team.…
— Don Nelson
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If there is one maverick molecule in all the universe, then God is not sovereign. And if God is not sovereign, He is not God.
— R C Sproul
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In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don’t care about my cinema. In Europe they don’t know my poetry; in Europe, I…
— Jonas Mekas
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I'm a maverick. I've always been a maverick.
— Sonny Bono
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Anyone who strays too far from the majority view or the conventional wisdom is bound to be labeled "arrogant," "a maverick," "a Wildman," "weird," or…
— John Eliot
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Managing an advertising agency isn't all beer and skittles. After fourteen years of it, I have come to the conclusion that the top man has…
— David Ogilvy
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Yes, there are directors I admire, the mavericks. Altman. There are many good directors.
— Mark Rydell
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Do not cringe and make yourself small if you are called the black sheep, the maverick, the lone wolf. Those with slow seeing say that…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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The [nonprofit] sector is the natural home of nonmajoritarian impulses, movements and values. It comfortably harbors innovators, maverick movements, groups which feel they must fight…
— John W. Gardner
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Even the most incorrigible maverick has to be born somewhere. He may leave the group that produced him-he may be forced to-but nothing will efface…
— James A. Baldwin
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It is impossible to be a maverick or a true original if you're too well behaved and don't want to break the rules. You have…
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
Who Wrote These Maverick Quotes
41 authors contributed a total of 42 Maverick Quotes, led by these top contributors: