Debbie Reynolds Quotes

I don't know fancy big words, because I didn't have a rich mother who sent her to fancy schools.

Debbie Reynolds

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• I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Up
  • Baby
  • Old

• Don't avoid extremes, and don't choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Art
  • Choose
  • Balancing

• I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Wish

• Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Money
  • Justice
  • Progress

• What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Change
  • Person
  • Awareness

• Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Powerful
  • Imagination
  • Exercise

• It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.

  

  Sally Mann
  • History
  • Church
  • Road

• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Different
  • You
  • Things

• Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Baseball
  • Repeat
  • Axiom

• In everyday life, I like APC, Isabel Marant, but I also like Zara. It depends how I'm feeling on the day. I like clothes that have a certain strength to them - simple but graphic.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Simple

• It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Easy
  • Started
  • Getting

• I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Best
  • Cultures
  • West

• One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Life
  • My Life
  • November

• If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?

  

  Oscar Hammerstein
  • True
  • Dream
  • You

• Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

  

  Vicki Baum
  • Success
  • Cold
  • Lonely

• Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Work
  • Different
  • Distance

• My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • Good
  • Work
  • Why

• My dad used to say that life's a journey, but somebody screwed up and lost the map.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Life
  • Up
  • Lost

• I think it's good to explore it. I don't feel bad about that... I mean, I think everyone has a sense of - has a dark side, has a - carries some sort of pain with them. And I find it fun to crack it open and go there.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Fun

• What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.

  

  Albrecht Durer

• I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Feel

• All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Life
  • Work
  • Words

• I don't know fancy big words, because I didn't have a rich mother who sent her to fancy schools.

  

  Debbie Reynolds
  • Mother
  • Words