Randy Newman Quotes

I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.

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• If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Road
  • Internet
  • Name

• Life in California is beautiful.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • California

• To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.

  

  Tacitus
  • May
  • Show
  • Resentment

• It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Up
  • Private Life

• Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • History
  • Culture
  • Debate

• I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • People
  • Love
  • Son

• I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Girl
  • Sexy
  • Train

• Your man Daddy Yankee, some black and white people who know what's going on in the 'hood and the clubs are supporting him and loving him. But he's speaking Spanish, and he's speaking directly to the Latino people, and the people who know the language really dig it.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Man
  • Black

• I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • End
  • Dogs
  • Cats

• I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Kid
  • Shot
  • Wrist

• My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Experience
  • Society
  • Fear

• Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Hope
  • Joy
  • Failure

• Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Heart
  • Beauty
  • Beholder

• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• When the EPA says that property owners, farmers, and livestock producers must stomach higher costs, longer delays, and bigger headaches, it's up to Congress to put up a roadblock.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Up
  • Congress
  • Property

• I'm confident and really optimistic.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Really
  • Optimistic
  • Confident

• I was young and irresponsible, a silly woman laden with sin, not caring for anything except fame and fortune and self. But I have lived seeking truth in Jesus Christ and found it has made me free.

  

  Vanity
  • Truth
  • Free
  • Jesus

• Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Real
  • Done
  • Why

• Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Like
  • Never
  • Early

• Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.

  

  Donald Rumsfeld
  • Work
  • Job
  • Goals

• I do not remember in my whole life I ever willfully misrepresented anything to anybody at any time. I have never knowingly had connection with a fraudulent scheme.

  

  J. P. Morgan
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Misrepresented

• I started creative writing classes at Aberdeen Central Library, and the writer-in-residence there, Todd McEwen, encouraged me a great deal. He showed my stories to his editor, and I thought that was just what happened to everyone who took his classes!

  

  Leila Aboulela
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Library

• I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Remember
  • Something
  • Writer