Katie Finneran Quotes

I would love to go back to Broadway.

Katie Finneran

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• A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Up
  • Man
  • Self

• I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Acting

• Every second I have spare, I'm with my kids.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Kids
  • Second
  • Every Second

• I have to satisfy my audience.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Audience
  • Satisfy

• The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Time
  • World
  • Money

• There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.

  

  Eben Alexander
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Self

• I'll always be tough on myself.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Myself
  • Always
  • Tough

• I eat healthy and don't even get on a scale. I have my favorite jeans that I wear, and if they are getting too snug, I watch what I eat for a week.

  

  Talisa Soto
  • Healthy
  • Week
  • Jeans

• Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • American
  • Help
  • Heaven

• I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Technology
  • Missing

• A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who impose on it new modes of reading and interpretation. The work survives because of these interpretations, which are, in fact, resurrections: without them, there would be no work.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Work
  • Reading
  • Years

• My show in Egypt was called, 'The Show,' or, 'Al Bernameg' in Arabic. Basically, it was a political satire show. It started on Internet by three, four-minute episodes, and then it evolved into a live show in a theater, which was something that was unprecedented in the Arab world.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • World
  • Live
  • Political

• I like shopping, and I like to drive.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • Like
  • Shopping
  • Drive

• We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds...A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Time
  • Work
  • Men

• I was no longer scared. I could see what was inside me.

  

  Amy Tan

• When I am furious about something, I sometimes beat the ground or a tree with my walking stick. But I certainly do not believe that the ground is to blame or that my beating can help anything... And all rites are of this kind.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Believe
  • Help
  • Walking

• Instinct is the direct connection with truth.

  

  Laurette Taylor
  • Truth
  • Connection

• What fascinates me about Duchamp is the idea of tearing down the wall between the art object and reality.

  

  Anselm Kiefer
  • Art
  • Reality
  • Wall

• If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Art
  • Society
  • Free

• Racist people are few, in the minority. But you can do nothing to change them. You can talk, you can do what you want, but you can't do anything because they are just stupid people.

  

  Mario Balotelli
  • People
  • Stupid

• For me in my twenties, working in Hollywood was confusing in that the differences between what was fiction and what was nonfiction seemed to blur in my mind. Everything became a visual memory for me. I carried my Leica camera, giving opportunity to take pictures from my view.

  

  John Van Hamersveld
  • Mind
  • Giving
  • Opportunity

• In this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.

  

  George Graham Vest
  • World
  • Dog
  • Deserts

• I get called to do a lot of labors of love... independent films on very small budgets. If I have the time and if the project speaks to me, it's better than sitting around, right?

  

  George Wendt
  • Project
  • Speaks
  • Budgets

• I would love to go back to Broadway.

  

  Katie Finneran