Debbie Reynolds Quotes

My husbands all repeatedly said the same thing - that I was not a very passionate woman.

Debbie Reynolds

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• The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • People
  • World
  • Want

• I am one of the most successful economists, according to what markets tell us, though most of my professional colleagues, who are much keener to accept market outcomes than I am, would dismiss me as a crank or - the worst of all abuses among economists - a 'sociologist.'

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Professional
  • Successful
  • Economists

• Anyone should be able to read comics.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Should
  • Read
  • Anyone

• I feel like, sometimes, people, because of the amount of media, because of the amount of attention, people seem to think I have to do things. Like, I have to win right now! But I don't feel like that.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • People
  • Attention
  • Win

• I was lucky enough to have parents with a huge film library. My mum is a huge Bollywood film geek. When we were kids, we would watch Indian films with her as well as Chinese and Japanese films. My father was more into the classics, American films, and also Hitchcock films.

  

  Jacky Ido
  • Kids
  • American
  • Father

• When I was bald, I went through a period where I seemed to do nothing except TV programmes about being bald.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Period
  • Nothing
  • Where

• I come from a wonderful country with wonderful people.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Country
  • Wonderful

• No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Great
  • Art
  • Study

• I watched a lot of old television growing up - a lot of Nick at Nite. I watched 'Rhoda', 'Mary Tyler Moore', and 'I Love Lucy.' Growing up, I loved 'My So Called Life' and was devastated when that went off the air.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Life
  • Growing
  • Loved

• I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Success
  • Reason
  • Successful

• Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct 'British' accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Happy
  • British
  • Dialect

• The delights of self-discovery are always available.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Learning
  • Always
  • Available

• I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Art
  • Opinion
  • Perfection

• I've always loved film, and it started with Pixar movies.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Film
  • Movies
  • Loved

• When men change, maybe Bond will change. But let's wait. I'm not holding my breath.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Men
  • Change
  • Wait

• I've got a lot of miles on my legs.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Got
  • Legs
  • Miles

• When I decided to be an actor, years ago, I just said, 'Look, I'm not going to do this unless I can be the best,' but I don't know what 'the best' is.

  

  Eddie McClintock
  • Know
  • Best
  • Look

• Now I'm this far up the ladder and I've got so much farther to go with what I want to achieve with it.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Up
  • Want
  • Achieve

• I hate to say 'chain restaurant,' but we're sort of a corporation now. How do we defy that concept, where people assume each restaurant can't be good?

  

  David Chang
  • People
  • Good
  • Hate

• A man’s body and the needs of his body are now everywhere treated with a tender indulgence. Is the thinking mind then, to be the only thing that is never to obtain the slightest measure of consideration or protection, to say nothing of respect?

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Respect

• In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.

  

  Niklaus Wirth
  • Program
  • Computing
  • Unchanged

• The biggest threat, when it comes to climate change and pollution, isn't going to come from us because we only have 300 million people. It's going to come from China with over 1 billion people and India with over 1 billion people.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People

• We slow the progress of science today for all sorts of ethical reasons. Biomedicine could advance much faster if we abolished our rules on human experimentation in clinical trials, as Nazi researchers did.

  

  Paul Nitze
  • Human
  • Medicine
  • Experimentation

• My husbands all repeatedly said the same thing - that I was not a very passionate woman.

  

  Debbie Reynolds