Debra Winger Quotes

I never thought I would start working again, and I did, but it was really hard, and I don't know that I would advise anyone to step back the way I did.

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• If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Time
  • Best
  • Worry

• I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Want
  • Science
  • Learning

• France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Country
  • Latin
  • France

• Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Home
  • Growing

• I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Me
  • Never
  • Everybody Else

• My favorite ski slope is the kind that winds up at the cafeteria. My children, though, usually insist that I get out and take on a few expert runs, in a game called 'Let's See if We Can Get Our Inheritance Early.'

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Up
  • Children
  • Game

• My great-grandfather, like many, came to this country in search of the American dream.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Great
  • Country
  • American

• I was lucky enough to first meet Elvis at his house in Bel Air and he used to invite different artists, singers and musicians, to come and jam with him at his house.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Different
  • House
  • Air

• Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely exact, and therefore, when you enter another language and speak with its speakers, you become a slightly different person; you learn a different sort of world.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • World
  • Different
  • Why

• Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Women
  • Difference

• I am not attracted to those politicians who are short on vision and only want to make money. I like those who have vision.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Money
  • Vision
  • Short

• I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Joy

• My father taught me that one of the most important abilities in life is to be able to take the pain and persevere, and for years this lesson had served me well.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Life
  • Important
  • Father

• I'm going to get you a broken alarm clock so you'll get up in the morning.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Broken

• Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • May
  • Forever
  • Greed

• The soul that does not consider the question of the body’s self-sufficiency cannot make itself self-sufficient.

  

  Apollonius of Tyana
  • Soul
  • Question

• Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Universe

• I say a lot of things I don’t mean.

  

  Morrissey The Smiths

• The great thing about doing a play is you get this rehearsal period, which you don't get with most film and television roles.

  

  Charlie Cox
  • Great
  • Period

• I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Kind

• I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Men
  • Power
  • Freedom

• How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Change
  • Minute
  • Puzzling

• I never thought I would start working again, and I did, but it was really hard, and I don't know that I would advise anyone to step back the way I did.

  

  Debra Winger