Charlotte Rae Quotes

I always learned to be philanthropic... to give back.

Charlotte Rae

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• Every girl on TV, in real life, sure you want to meet that soul mate and fall in love and have the big thing, but until that happens, you gotta kiss a lot of frogs.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Girl

• My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Home
  • Mom
  • Walk

• If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I love hillwalking and have been doing a lot of climbing.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Doing
  • Climbing
  • Hillwalking

• There have been moments where I'm like, 'I don't know how I'm going to survive and pay next month's rent.' And the next month I'm filming a movie in New York City.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Movie
  • City
  • Moments

• My work ethic is from sports.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Work
  • Sports
  • Work Ethic

• No entrepreneur ever publicly admits to bribing, but few dare to openly claim they don't, either.

  

  Wang Shi
  • Entrepreneur
  • Dare
  • Ever

• I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Good
  • Song
  • Problem

• I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Government
  • Late
  • November

• The systematic murder of Christians in the Middle East is a horrible atrocity, and all of us should be united against it. Likewise, we should speak with one voice against the persecution of Jews, usually being carried out by the very same jihadist radicals.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Speak
  • Voice
  • Same

• Boxing should probably be banned. But until then, I'm a big fan.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Boxing
  • Big
  • Then

• Have you recently been through a challenge, disappointment, break up or disloyalty with somebody in your life? If so, it's important after you've been hurt, to take some time to think like a lion tamer about your pain, so you can tame the possibility of more negativity coming back to bite you again!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• What having a Down's syndrome child isn't - and I feel very strongly about this - is a tragedy. All those pregnancy books you read when you are expecting refer to Down's syndrome as if it were the worst possible outcome, and it's not.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Child
  • Down
  • Tragedy

• Must say though, I'm rather chuffed to have been called a 'luvvie'.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Say
  • Rather
  • Though

• Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Happy
  • Always
  • Movies

• I take very seriously the notion that you have to get out in your community; you have to talk to people, but, more importantly, you have to listen to people.

  

  Gary Peters
  • People
  • Community
  • Seriously

• 'Orientalism' has successfully built my critical awareness to question and see the big picture of knowledge, perspective or idea from a Western point of view and always see things from different perspective.

  

  Okky Madasari
  • Different
  • Knowledge
  • Question

• I have to say I find it totally astounding that my albums do as well as they do. It's quite extraordinary, and it's actually very touching for me for the albums to be received with such warmth.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Me
  • Find
  • Warmth

• “Prayer frees the mind of all thought of the sensory and raises it to God Himself, Who is above all, to converse with Him and daringly ask Him for anything. Thus a man spends his life in purity, as one who, having already experienced communion with God, is thereupon again preparing for this communion.”

  

  Nilus of Sinai
  • Life
  • God
  • Prayer

• The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.

  

  Lincoln Child
  • People
  • Writing
  • Funny

• I went to sleep last night and I arose with the dawn, I know that there are others who're still sleeping on, They've gone away, You've let me stay, I want to thank You.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Night
  • Sleep
  • Others

• Woodstock was not about sex, drugs, and rock and roll. It was about spirituality, about love, about sharing, about helping each other, living in peace and harmony.

  

  Richie Havens
  • Harmony
  • Drugs
  • Woodstock

• When we started Skype, if you look at analyst reports, no one forecasted it as a big business. Also when Google started, it was not fashionable to be in search. It's not trying to do the obvious - that's the hard part.

  

  Niklas Zennstrom
  • Business
  • Search
  • Part

• I always learned to be philanthropic... to give back.

  

  Charlotte Rae