Famous Quotes By Rita Rudner

 

1. A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.
2. Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.
3. I get a lot of return business. I think it's all those years I put in traveling around the country people saw me before and had a good time so they want to see me again.
4. I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
5. I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.
6. I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
7. I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.
8. I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.
9. I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.
10. I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
11. In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
12. Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie.
13. Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?
14. Men who consistently leave the toilet seat up secretly want women to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and fall in.
15. Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
16. My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.
17. My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.
18. My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.
19. My Vegas act is how I make my money.
20. Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.
21. Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?
22. Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.
23. There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better.
24. To attract men, I wear a perfume called 'New Car Interior.'
25. We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet - so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, and you get more feet.
26. When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.

Famous Quotes By Norah Jones

 

1. A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music.
2. A lot of pop people out there are cool, but they overdo it.
3. For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.
4. I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.
5. I could do without 'cool' publications calling me 'mom jazz.' But I laughed all the way to the bank, baby.
6. I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music.
7. I don't actually have a lot of discipline. I've worked hard at music. But I feel like you know, I felt like kind of natural at it. I always had a knack for it.
8. I don't think I'm a great songwriter, but I think I've learned a lot about it, and I don't think there's any one way to do it. I don't think I can control it at all. I can just kind of hope that it happens.
9. I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music, and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned.
10. I hope there are some audiophiles still out there.
11. I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.
12. I just want to make my music, and I want it to stand on its own.
13. I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now.
14. I love slow music.
15. I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.
16. I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters.
17. I wasn't very aware of pop music because I attended an arts school. For me, it was all about jazz.
18. I'm always going to do that - record and make music.
19. It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.
20. I've been told the weirdest things: 'Yeah, I love taking a bath to your music!' or 'I gave birth to my daughter while listening to your music.'
21. Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!
22. My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.
23. My mom and I have always been very close. She is my best friend. She had to make a lot of sacrifices early on in my life to make sure I got to do what I wanted to do.
24. Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.
25. Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.
26. There are absolutely no problems between me, my dad and my sister. Obviously I grew up with just my mum, but my relationship with my dad is just fine.
27. When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.

Famous Quotes By Kin Hubbard

 

1. A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
2. A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.
3. After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school.
4. Bargain... anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.
5. Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
6. Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
7. Don't knock the weather nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
8. I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.
9. If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.
10. It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.
11. It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you.
12. It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.
13. Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home.
14. Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.
15. Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
16. Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
17. No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.
18. No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.
19. Nobody works as hard for his money as the man who marries it.
20. Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.
21. Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
22. The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.
23. The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
24. There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.
25. There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?
26. Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.
27. We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.
28. When a fellow says, 'It ain't the money but the principle of the thing,' it's the money.

Famous Quotes By George McGovern

 

1. Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.
2. From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.
3. I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.
4. I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.
5. I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.
6. I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.
7. I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.
8. I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.
9. I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.
10. I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.
11. I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.
12. I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.
13. I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.
14. I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
15. It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.
16. It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.
17. I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.
18. My dad was a Methodist minister.
19. People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.
20. Politics is an act of faith you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.
21. The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
22. The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.
23. The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.
24. There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.
25. Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.
26. When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.
27. When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.

Famous Quotes By Diane Kruger

 

1. A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.
2. Berlin is still going through a transition since the Cold War - both in what used to be East and West Berlin. I can still sense the confusion and the struggle for identity there in the streets. There's a pulse to it.
3. Critics can be harsh and I think it's going to take me a long time to make people see what I have inside of me and that I really put my guts into movies and that I'm not superficial and that I'm not just a pretty face.
4. Family is becoming more and more important to me.
5. Her beauty didn't do her any good and she couldn't use it in any positive way or manipulative way. I just hope that people will look and see and believe in that hope of love, that hope of freedom, even if it was just for a limited time.
6. I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress... ? No. It's not something for me.
7. I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'
8. I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and allows me to express emotion through my body. I played clarinet as a child, so I guess I have a bit of a musical ear.
9. I get offered a World War II movie at least once a week just because I speak German and was born there. I have always stayed away from it because I didn't want to be put into that box.
10. I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me.
11. I have a kind of boring personal life, to the paparazzi anyway, and I don't hang with the cool crowd.
12. I have three goddaughters - I'm not sure why they trust me, because I have no experience with children - but I try.
13. I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like beauty and products should be accessible to all women over the world.
14. I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.
15. I would do anything for a part, nearly anything. Being in movies doesn't mean being pretty.
16. I'm not a very good impersonator, my friends maybe, but not famous people.
17. I'm not one of those women who thinks beauty is a curse.
18. In between films I like to travel and hope to visit every continent before I become a mother.
19. What counts in Hollywood is box office. It doesn't really matter what people think of you as an actor because, as long as you have been in a movie that has made money, you will always get another job.
20. What I really tried to do with Helen was make her show this sad side of her. She was married off at 16, was so young and living in this castle that can't leave because of how she looks, and married to a man she hates and three times her age.
21. When I was younger - it might be a romantic idea - I always thought I might go crazy.
22. Yeah, to me, acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration.

Famous Quotes By will.i.am

 

1. As we develop and get quicker with technology in America, it's like we're downgrading if you look at the investment in education... that's the thing that worries me.
2. Disco is the first technology music. And what I mean is that 'disco' music is named after discs, because when technology grew to where they didn't need a band in the clubs, the DJ played it on a disc.
3. Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society.
4. I don't like politics.
5. I don't want to hope anymore. I don't think we should hope anymore. We hoped enough. Now we have to do. We all have to do now.
6. I like all the families in the U.K. But what I like about the idea of the royal family is... they seem like they're well educated and there's something admirable about them. And the Queen... she reminds me of my grandma.
7. I remember when I was 11, I told my mom, 'One day I'm going to buy you a house.' And she said, 'Boy, don't you be making promises you can't keep.' I was like: 'No, Ma, it's not a promise. I'm going to buy you a house one day.'
8. I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.
9. If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?
10. If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you're not going to want to keep it to yourself. You're going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it.
11. If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family's life but change your ghetto's life, make your ghetto a good neighbourhood, learn science try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
12. If you really want change, you really want it to be inclusive, where everyone's included, otherwise you're just going to have more of the same in the future.
13. If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.
14. It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.
15. Most of these people who are celebrities now don't do anything to deserve it, so by that fact alone, I don't want to be one.
16. My mom's discipline worked out perfectly. I wouldn't change a thing.
17. My mom's never been married. I've never even seen my mom kiss a dude.
18. Not many people give you a vision of what the future will bring.
19. Philanthropy is the thing that I am really excited about, and having success means I can do more.
20. Politics are about preserving relationships at the end of the day, and it has nothing to do with the greater good for humanity. It's just all about business.
21. Romantic love is painful.
22. There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.
23. There's an entry point to any relationship.
24. We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.
25. We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don't control that. If politicians want a war we don't control that. Acts of terrorism, we can't control them.
26. When I got into junior high school, that's when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to that point I wore suits to school all the time.
27. You can get your money and you put it in the bank, or you can put it in the youth. You can put it in our future.
28. You can rule ignorance you can manipulate the illiterate you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.
29. You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.

Famous Quotes By Salma Hayek

 

1. And I highly recommend for all the women in the world, even if they're 71, you can never take for granted that he loves you. It's always good to flirt with him. It's a great sport.
2. At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me.
3. Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.
4. For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.
5. I aim for a lifetime full of movies.
6. I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.
7. I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.
8. I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
9. I have one friend that I've had since I was born, and she's from Coatzacoalcos. She's not really impressed or interested in the actor's life. My family isn't really either.
10. I love being a wife and homemaker - because it's my choice. My husband doesn't expect me to do it. I don't mind doing things for him because he does so much for me we both feel that way so there is no power struggle.
11. I noticed in the past, a lot of guys who like strong women, they really freak out if you're not strong 24/7. Or they complain about you being strong, then the moment you're not strong, they're like, 'Oh, no, no, no.'
12. I really do love Diana Ross I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.
13. I think it's important that kids have responsibilities and understand the value of things, but I think it's great I get to travel the world with my daughter.
14. If a man lets all of my dogs sleep in the bed with us, then that is the most romantic thing. You must love my dogs in order to love me. A man who is nice to my animals and doesn't shoo them away - well, that's the height of romance.
15. If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
16. I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.
17. Love food and I love to eat.
18. My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.
19. No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.
20. Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.
21. There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.
22. There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.
23. What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.
24. What works in a relationship of very public people is not making the relationship public - keeping it as personal as it can be. It's the only way it is real.
25. You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, 'This is my kingdom.'
26. You can have a spiritual awakening and discover a new side of you at any age. And best of all, love can happen at any age. Life can just start to get exciting when you're in your 40s and 50s. You have to believe that.

Famous Quotes By Joseph Conrad

 

1. A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
2. A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.
3. All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
4. Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
5. As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.
6. Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
7. Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
8. Going home must be like going to render an account.
9. He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
10. History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
11. How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?
12. I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
13. It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.
14. Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
15. Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
16. Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
17. The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
18. The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
19. The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
20. To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
21. Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
22. Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
23. Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

Famous Quotes By John Stuart Mill

 

1. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
2. Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
3. As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
4. Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
5. Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
6. I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
7. If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
8. It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
9. Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
10. Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
11. Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
12. Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
13. The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
14. The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.
15. The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
16. The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
17. The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
18. The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
19. The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
20. The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.
21. The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
22. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
23. There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
24. Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
25. War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
26. Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

Famous Quotes By Kristen Stewart

 

1. And I like to keep whatever is mine remaining that way. It's a funny little game to play and it's a slippery slope. I always say to myself I'm never going to give anything away because there's never any point or benefit for me.
2. I don't want to discredit people's individuality, but I think people are pretty much the same. People are very similar. If you have a good enough imagination then you can feel things that you personally have never done before. That's acting.
3. I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.
4. I have a great family by the way, but you need to find people who can pull something out from you that might be otherwise unseen.
5. I like being in movies that have a great story. I'm not so interested in being a Hollywood star. It's a job, you know. When you wake up at six in the morning every day for a week, it feels like hard work.
6. I like making pies. I have a bunch of fruit trees in my backyard. My loquat tree sprouted, and I like making loquat pie. They're really hard to peel and everything, and it took me forever, but they make the best pies. They're amazing.
7. I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure.
8. I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that. I have a lot of ambitions in life, but for the next few years, I just want to be an actor.
9. I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming.
10. I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.
11. I wouldn't tell you anything about anybody I cared about because it becomes entertainment for other people, and it sort of just cheapens everything in your life. I would never tell you if I was dating anybody.
12. I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.
13. I'm not ready to get married, but I have a pretty great family and I'd like that too, someday.
14. It's a funny thing: You want so badly for people to see what you do - you're proud of it - and I like the effect that movies have on people. But the attention can also make me uncomfortable.
15. It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves.
16. My best friend just had a baby, and she's my age. So I'm a godmom now, which is crazy.
17. People say, 'Just say who you're dating. Then people will stop being so ravenous about it.' It's like, No they won't! They'll ask for specifics.
18. Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody. I'm not doing that now, so I feel really good about myself.
19. Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody.
20. Sure, 'Twilight' is really huge right now and everybody's freaking out over it, but it will go away soon and I will be back to doing what I'm used to doing: weird little movies that nobody sees.
21. The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

Famous Quotes By Lewis Thomas

 

1. A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next swarm. Bees do a lot of close observing of other bees maybe they know what follows stinging and do it anyway.
2. Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labour, exchange information ceaselessl
3. At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future.
4. If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.
5. It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.
6. Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts.
7. Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.
8. Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.
9. Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.
10. The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean, as it is sometimes claimed to mean, a search for mastery over nature.
11. The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
12. The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves most things, in fact, are better in the morning.
13. The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.
14. Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to glimpse things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works.
15. We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.

Famous Quotes By Paul Wellstone

 

1. A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.
2. Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.
3. I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.
4. I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.
5. I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.
6. I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines.
7. If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?
8. It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.
9. Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.
10. Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.
11. Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.
12. Politics is not about money.
13. Politics is not about power.
14. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.
15. Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.
16. Politics isn't about big money or power games it's about the improvement of people's lives.
17. Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.
18. The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.
19. The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.
20. The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better.
21. The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.
22. The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.
23. There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.
24. We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.
25. What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.
26. When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.

 

Famous Quotes By John Podhoretz

 

1. All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth.
2. Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.
3. Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.
4. Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that's a victory he savors and desir
5. If you want to know why Republicans and conservatives are in a political crisis, you need only consider the fact that the Right's deeply held view now boils down to this: Taxes should not go up on the wealthy, and your health benefits should be cut.It has never made any sense to argue that, unique among the people of the world, Arabs are more concerned on a day-to-day basis about the treatment of people they don't know than they are about how they're going to put food on their own tables, or whe
6. Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.
7. Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.
8. Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.
9. Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.
10. Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications.
11. Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.
12. Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.
13. Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business and wealth creation at the expense of everything else.
14. The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.
15. The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state.The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't.
16. The thing is, Obama is right that it would be a calamity for the government to default on its debt by not meeting its obligations. Such a thing has never happened and can't be allowed to happen.
17. This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud he sits upon the throne.
18. What people adore about superhero movies is the signal quality of the Christopher Nolan films - their complete lack of irony when it comes to the portrayal of heroism and the need for heroes to confront evil.
19. While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future.
20. You want a culture where citizens are free to express themselves and so live in the openness necessary to the functioning of a successful economy? Israel has a free press, much of it openly hostile to the parties in power.
21. You'd think experienced political professionals would know better than to place their trust in exit polls, notoriously inaccurate surveys that had John Kerry winning the 2004 election by five points when he actually lost by three.
22. Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will.

 

Famous Quotes By Rashida Jones

 

1. Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls.
2. Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.
3. I don't think that there's been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it's done them any good.
4. I don't want to be an artist, go on tour and make a video and wear sexy clothes. I would just love to make music.
5. I have a lot of skepticism about marriage and monogamy.
6. I have to say, you know, I've seen so many people go through the cycle and become famous and not famous anymore and, you know, want - have their priorities change and want different things.
7. I know my mom said as early as she can remember letting me watch TV, my one treat a week when I was like 6 was to stay up and watch 'Saturday Night Live.'
8. I love romantic comedies. I have a deep respect for them. I think they're really difficult to write and write well.
9. I pretty much borrow my entire beauty regime from my mom.
10. I think anybody who has had a long relationship and has had a really hard time letting go, wants to feel like it's not all for naught, and it's meaningful, because it makes you who you are.
11. I want a baby and I want a family, for sure.
12. I'm friends with a lot of my exes, but it took time. We didn't just get into it. I don't think you can be friends until you're cool with them dating someone else. That's when you know.
13. In early high school years, I was pretty chubby, and I spent a lot of time on my computer, before it was cool to have a computer - because there was a time that was true. So that's where I developed my personality.
14. In high school, I was on the youth advisory council for the Mayor's Office of Los Angeles, and that was kind of my first experience in the bureaucratic system. We tried to get things done, and nobody was really interested in getting anything done.
15. Just because a situation is grim doesn't mean you don't have every right to smile.
16. Marriage feels like an industry with catering and really expensive bands.
17. Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight-or-flight thing.
18. Music breaks my heart constantly.
19. Music is hugely important to me.
20. My dad always tell me to make decisions from love and not from fear.
21. My parents are the coolest of the cool on every single level, and it's because they have a deep appreciation for every moment of their lives.
22. My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for 'integrity' in the dictionary. 'Truthful' doesn't really cover it, or 'genuine.' It should be like 'integritus.'
23. Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.
24. There's a definite responsibility that comes with being famous. You shouldn't be able to just dress up and look pretty.
25. Well, dating has become a sport and not about finding the person you love.
26. Well, I'm not a method actress by any stretch of the imagination so the best thing that I can do is be as real as possible and find whatever commonality in that character that I can see myself.
27. You can never stop discovering music.
28. You know, I grew up on romantic comedies, and it's hard to find a new way to tell that story.

 

Famous Quotes By Stephen King

 

1. A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.
2. Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.
3. And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.
4. And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.
5. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
6. Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
7. Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
8. French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
9. God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
10. I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.
11. I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.
12. I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.
13. I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.
14. I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.
15. It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.
16. Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.
17. Only enemies speak the truth friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
18. Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
19. The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
20. We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
21. Well, I'm like a drug addict, I'm always saying I'm going to stop, and then I don't, what I've said consistently is that I hope I know when to stop: when it starts to get repetitive.
22. We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.
23. What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.'
24. Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.
25. You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.