Beth Riesgraf Quotes

I was really active as a kid. I was outdoors constantly.

Beth Riesgraf

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• As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Important
  • American
  • Positive

• You don't try to do more than you should.

  

  Karl Malone
  • You
  • Try
  • More

• My parents were both entrepreneurs.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Parents
  • Both
  • Were

• My dad is afraid of my laugh.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Dad
  • Laugh
  • Afraid

• Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Up
  • Cool
  • Better

• What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • She
  • Nature
  • Blessed

• I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned everything perfectly, it's then that everything goes in the opposite way.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Think
  • Famous
  • Paris

• Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Worth It
  • Not Worth It

• I try to do things I love or care about for some reason.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Reason
  • Care
  • Things

• Verily there is nothing in all Europe so beautiful as Valldemosa.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Beautiful
  • Nothing
  • Europe

• I picked all the tunes before I went to Memphis, and the band was all set. Willie Mitchell is an arranger like I am, and he let me do what I had to do.

  

  Otis Rush
  • Band
  • Tunes
  • Memphis

• Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Music
  • Remember
  • Romantic

• The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Reason
  • Lie
  • Weapons

• I'm in good shape.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Good
  • Shape

• It's very difficult to be objective about yourself and your own circumstances, but one thing I do know about is that I grew up surrounded by storytellers.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Up
  • Know
  • Yourself

• I say things other people wish they could say. I don't pick on people - I empower them.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • People
  • Wish
  • Empower

• All I want to do is a rom-com, but you know, people see me as an action person because the first movie that was seen by a lot of the public would be 'Hitman.'

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Movie
  • Action

• An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Art
  • Wonder
  • Canvas

• I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.

  

  Ariel Gore
  • Time
  • Different
  • Happy

• I want peace; yes, I'd sell the whole world for a farthing, straight off, so long as I was left in peace. Is the world to go to pot, or am I to go without my tea? I say that the world may go to pot for me so long as I always get my tea. Did you know that, or not? Well, anyway, I know that I am a blackguard, a scoundrel, an egoist, a sluggard.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Long
  • Peace
  • Tea

• The obsessive focus on a college degree has served neither taxpayers nor students well. Only 35 percent of students starting a four-year degree program will graduate within four years, and less than 60 percent will graduate within six years. Students who haven't graduated within six years probably never will.

  

  Alex Tabarrok
  • College
  • Focus

• Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Live
  • Society
  • Freedom

• I think it is so great right now that we are in an age where there's an African American president in office. I think it is important for our generation to really witness that.

  

  Sufe Bradshaw
  • President
  • Generation
  • African

• I was really active as a kid. I was outdoors constantly.

  

  Beth Riesgraf