Demi Moore Quotes

I'm intensely private, and I've openly shown annoyance at the paparazzi.

Demi Moore

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• My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.

  

  Ice T
  • Live
  • Mother
  • Father

• Getting direct consumer revenue through movies or games or other culture products is something that we are very suitable for.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Culture
  • Movies
  • Games

• When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Reason
  • Shock
  • Electrical

• Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Culture
  • Class
  • Conservative

• I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.

  

  Rae Carson
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Like
  • More
  • Year

• To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Changes

• I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Depression
  • Mental Illness

• At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Look
  • Hide
  • Eighteen

• Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • God
  • Right
  • Sin

• Obviously I will promote 'Vaalu.' It is my film. I am the lead actress in it; I play a major part, and I will promote the film.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Play
  • Film
  • Actress

• What's really good is African drum music.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Good
  • Music
  • Drum

• I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not going to hurt anyone else during that time. And if you do have a partner, you need a couple years to rehearse that relationship.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Time
  • Important
  • Relationship

• Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Kind
  • Joy
  • Happiness

• I could not find any way that we could really run the kind of campaign I wanted to run if we were targeting delegates and still trying to talk to people, which is what keeps me going as a human being.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • People
  • Trying
  • Me

• A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • People
  • True
  • Door

• It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Time
  • Education
  • Me

• What I really like doing is storytelling, finding the body language that is necessary for the story. And when I'm doing it and it's working, I'm thrilled.

  

  Patricia Birch
  • Language
  • Body
  • Doing

• The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.

  

  Paul Scott
  • Past
  • Present
  • Ambience

• Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • She
  • Look
  • Creation

• The desire for wealth is nearly universal, and none can say it is not laudable, provided the possessor of it accepts its responsibilities, and uses it as a friend to humanity.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Desire
  • Friend
  • Humanity

• The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense.

  

  Ann Richards
  • Good
  • Perfect
  • Smart

• Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific.

  

  Leon Panetta
  • Power

• I'm intensely private, and I've openly shown annoyance at the paparazzi.

  

  Demi Moore