Denis Leary Quotes

I really, really like 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of the few things that makes me laugh.

Denis Leary

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• Of course a woman who decides to work full time as a mother in the home can be happy and deserves full respect from us. Motherhood is one of the most challenging and creative jobs anyone can do. The goal is to remake the world so that our choices are not so stark.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Man
  • Day
  • Voice

• Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Everything
  • Hidden

• The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers. The economic basis of this contest was the power to tax, to float bonds, to award franchise: in short, to gain control over the financial resources of the newly organized States.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Power
  • Political
  • Control

• You read about poor people having Botox go wrong and you think: 'Well, what the bloody hell were you doing?' Why would you inject yourself with poison? And why are we spending so much time looking at ourselves? I just don't get it.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • People
  • Time
  • Why

• When I had dark hair I definitely felt that I was more anonymous.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Dark
  • Hair
  • More

• So far, 44 States, or 88 percent of the States, have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between a man and a woman. Only 75 percent of the States are required to approve a constitutional amendment.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Man
  • Marriage
  • Woman

• There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Art
  • Respect
  • Myself

• We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Justice
  • New
  • Environmental

• I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger. I never woke up saying, 'I'm an orphan again today, isn't this terrible? Poor me.'

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Up
  • Today
  • Poverty

• My family life reads a bit like 'Little House on the Prairie.' I was big sister to Joan, Renee, and brother William, and we grew up in Dalkey, a little town 10 miles outside of Dublin. It was a secure, safe and happy childhood, which was meant to be a disadvantage when it comes to writing stories about family dramas.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Up
  • Writing

• The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Help
  • High
  • Energy

• Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Home
  • America
  • Philosophical

• I suppose a certain degree of adulthood has entered my life. Aiming for Broadway, I can't think that way any more. Of course, Broadway will always be important. But it's not the focus of everything that you do. You know, I'm very happy I was born when I was, so I got there in time. When it was time to get there.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• The best part of the high school in Hastings must have been the Music Department. Its orchestra and concert band did well in county competitions, and the dance band formed by its students was the best in the region. I played lead trumpet in all of them.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of.

  

  Rebecca Solnit
  • Pain
  • Purpose
  • Danger

• I find myself feeling like Oscar in 'Sweat' just by virtue of cleaning the tables, wiping the bar down and picking up everybody's glasses - and not making eye contact, because that's the character. These are working-class, blue-collar people. These are the people I grew up with. It gets under your skin.

  

  Carlo Alban
  • People
  • Character
  • Feelings

• As a child, I was so deeply insecure.

  

  Barbie Ferreira

• If we didn't want anything, we would never get anything, good or bad. I think our longings are natural, and if we act as nature prompts us we can't go far wrong.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Nature

• I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • War
  • Peace
  • Government

• I really, really like 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of the few things that makes me laugh.

  

  Denis Leary