Kathy Bates Quotes

I want to be defined by my own essence.

Kathy Bates

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• But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Want
  • Thought
  • Ambition

• After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Space
  • Go
  • Once

• I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • School
  • Know

• What I always say to people is dress from the feet up. If you don't normally wear colour, try some colour on your feet; it's the place, I think you can have fun and update your outfit.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • People
  • Up
  • Fun

• I think fine dining should be part of the community where it is, more than just for the people who are going to make a special occasion.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • People
  • Think
  • Community

• I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people understand paintings. But yet they're looking at one.

  

  Faith Ringgold
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

  

  Tacitus
  • Good
  • Men
  • Bad

• Music is how you feel.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Music
  • You
  • Feel

• I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Money
  • House
  • Kid

• The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • People
  • Fear
  • Me

• What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Love
  • Movie
  • Expect

• I think Jennifer Lawrence is a brilliant role model for young girls, not some of the models that I see on the runway.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Think
  • Model
  • Young

• Once I wrote 'Atmosphere,' I thought, 'This is my story; it's me and my life and what I've gone through to get to where I am.' I'm not the best singer, but still. All of my albums are personal, but putting myself out there and singing is one more thing that makes me vulnerable - one more thing that people can fire shots at.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Life
  • Myself

• I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria. I was very unpopular in the early grades. Because I hung out with my grandfather, I started to bring my lunchbox with sardine sandwiches and calamari that I would eat off my fingers like rings. I was also always reeking of garlic.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Always
  • Grandfather
  • Grades

• What was interesting was talking to older gay men about what it was like being gay in the Eighties.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Men
  • Interesting
  • Gay

• I like being surrounded by people who have very little fear and very little respect for the past - not in a negative way, but in a positive way. They appreciate everything that's been done, but they constantly look for how to do it better.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • People
  • Done
  • Past

• I've never liked the idea of working for other people.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • People
  • Idea
  • Working

• Calvin was very clever. We did the pictures and made the commercial, and that really worked.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Made
  • Clever
  • Pictures

• I drink protein shakes when I travel. That is how I maintain myself, and I exercise six days a week.

  

  Jinder Mahal
  • Travel
  • Exercise

• I watched the land for as long as I could, until it disappeared behind its shawl of mist, and until I had it fixed in my mind - unchanged, mysterious and beautiful.

  

  Aimee Friedman
  • Mind
  • Mysterious
  • Land

• If anyone can make anything, anywhere. It fundamentally changes the meaning of business.

  

  Neil Gershenfeld
  • Business

• We're supposed to be becoming more evolved as a society, and we're actually becoming less evolved.

  

  Kenya Barris
  • Society

• A very elementary exercise in psychology, not to be dignified by the name of psycho-analysis, showed me, on looking at my notebook, that the sketch of the angry professor had been made in anger. Anger had snatched my pencil while I dreamt. But what was anger doing there? Interest, confusion, amusement, boredom--all these emotions I could trace and name as they succeeded each other throughout the morning. Had anger, the black snake, been lurking among them? Yes, said the sketch, anger had.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Black
  • Exercise
  • Interest

• I want to be defined by my own essence.

  

  Kathy Bates