Gloria Gaynor Quotes

I think I sound like Barry White.

Gloria Gaynor

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• I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Want
  • Play
  • Actor

• I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Hate
  • Like
  • Being

• I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Never
  • Explain

• The one thing I will never do is become pigeonholed.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Never
  • Will
  • Become

• Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.

  

  Wale
  • Beauty
  • Sound
  • Fake

• Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Why
  • Thoughts
  • Walk

• I'm not the pedigree kid. I'm not classically trained. I didn't come from the fancy home, no.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Home
  • Kid
  • Come

• The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • World
  • War
  • Greatest

• There are times when fixing things quickly is the only option: when you have to channel MacGyver, reach for the duct tape, and cobble together whatever solution works right now. If someone is choking on a morsel of food, you don't sit back, stroke your chin and take the Aristotelian long view. You quickly administer the Heimlich maneuvre.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Long
  • Together
  • Food

• The person who is bent on killing you will follow you wherever you are.

  

  Ed Koch
  • You
  • Person
  • Follow

• I love the scents of winter! For me, it's all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread and spruce.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Feeling
  • Winter
  • Spice

• There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne, the great master swordsman and brilliant stunt double.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • People
  • Brilliant
  • Helped

• If there are no consequences now for breaking the prohibition on chemical weapons, it will be harder to muster an international consensus to ensure that Hezbollah and other terrorist groups are prevented from acquiring or using these weapons themselves.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Now
  • Weapons
  • Consequences

• I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football – please.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Me
  • Football
  • Forget

• My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the Beatles, Alice In Chains... it was all over the place. I had a Third Eye Blind record, but I also had Korn, Courtney Love, and Shania Twain.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Music
  • Parents
  • Place

• I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Believe
  • Reality
  • I Believe

• The perks of working in Japan are that you might go for two weeks every three or four months, so you do work an abbreviated schedule. But you really make up for the abbreviated schedule by how hard you have to fight, how much you've got to be in shape.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Up
  • Work
  • Fight

• City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • City
  • Health
  • Measure

• I remember turning 'The Sopranos' on once and within two minutes nearly throwing a brick through the screen.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Remember
  • Once
  • Brick

• To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Gods
  • Novels
  • Meals

• This will be Valegro's retirement after Rio, so I want to go out there and want to enjoy every last minute.

  

  Charlotte Dujardin
  • Retirement

• I'm a wealth creator. I'm not interested in saving in the least. While I do spend a lot, I don't spend money like other billionaires. I'm probably quite unusual, albeit I do have some of the significant trappings. But I always try to make my assets work for a living.

  

  John Caudwell
  • Work
  • Money

• In 1952, when I was 15 and living on Governors Island, which was then First Army Headquarters, I encountered the newly-published 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Of course, that book became the iconic anti-establishment novel for my generation.

  

  Lois Lowry
  • Book
  • Army

• I think I sound like Barry White.

  

  Gloria Gaynor