Bill Macy Quotes
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My focus on the budget, though, has played second fiddle to what I believe is even more important - creating jobs.
Jack Markell -
2009 was crazy enough! I can't believe I worked with Jeremy Irons, Joan Allen, Marsha Mason, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, Jack O'Brien and Trevor Nunn in the same 12 months.
Aaron Lazar -
I have only a few really enviable skills, but packing - condensing just the right amount of stuff into a single bag, whether the trip is for a weekend or, as in this case, seven weeks - is one of them.
Hanya Yanagihara -
I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
Oprah Winfrey -
Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.
Zadie Smith
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It is true that women in Paris never put on make-up. It shocked me when I first got there – then I realised how much I liked it.
Olga Kurylenko -
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
I can honestly say that I am happier now than I have ever been. For the first time in my life I feel free.
LaToya Jackson -
Dentistry was an ego trip, and acting is a personal need. Usually it's the reverse, and I honestly don't think I had the talent in my hands to be a good dentist.
Larry Wilcox -
Natural gas is great for America in so many ways.
Ed Rendell -
Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.
Fernando Pessoa
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They are smoking crack.
Linus Torvalds -
Stuart: Will you explain to me what these lesbian and gay groups are doing in bed with conservative Republicans?Lois: Getting reamed. But they seem to like it.
Alison Bechdel -
'They’re absolutely necrotic, aren’t they?' Colin whispered behind his order of service.'It’s late twentieth century atonal,' Dunworthy whispered back. 'It’s supposed to sound dreadful.'
Connie Willis -
We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.
Claude Bernard -
Not to put too fine a point upon it.
Charles Dickens -
Successful films are very dangerous things.
Kristin Scott Thomas
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The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.
Bobby Fischer -
I'm always reading a novel. If it's good, I remember why I love my job.
Alvaro Enrigue -
I didn't leave the Beatles. The Beatles have left the Beatles, but no one wants to be the one to say the party's over.
John Lennon The Beatles -
I don't surround myself with anybody, really. I have friends, but I'm kind of an isolationist now. I kind of work on my own.
Exene Cervenka -
You have to be just as meticulous on television as on the stage.
Bill Macy