Dennis Cardoza Quotes

As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation.

Dennis Cardoza

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• When I was going through puberty, I had all these feelings of being unstable through those years, and being uncontrollably drawn to things of beauty and things that are bad.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Bad
  • Feelings
  • Years

• It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Friends

• I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • People
  • Earth
  • Me

• My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • American
  • House
  • Looks

• I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother; and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.

  

  Flavius Josephus
  • Up
  • Great
  • Mother

• Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Music
  • Know
  • Jazz

• By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'

  

  Oren Peli
  • Experience
  • Movies
  • Software

• I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Man
  • Black
  • Best

• You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.

  

  Jack Scalia
  • People
  • Care
  • Foundation

• Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Today
  • Health
  • Problem

• I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Actor
  • Scared
  • Vacation

• I'm a child of the Sixties.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Child
  • Sixties

• My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Work
  • Education
  • Food

• I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.

  

  Odette Annable
  • People
  • Great
  • Friends

• When you watch 'Ray Donovan,' you think that it's about Hollywood, about scandal, about stars, and about trying to keep secrets. That's true, but that's also just the means by which you reveal secrets of the people suffering every day life.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• In my eyes, there's no one better than Stevie Wonder. He's a top dude.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Eyes
  • Wonder
  • Better

• It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Want
  • Know
  • Question

• You want entertainment in general, every aspect of it, to be more of a reflection of the diverse world that we live in.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • World
  • Live
  • Reflection

• I feel Bollywood is slowly recognising the South as a major market.

  

  Allu Arjun

• It's a city that just has to be discovered.

  

  Marco Polo
  • City
  • Discovered

• All around the world, we send our top talent into finance, technology, medicine and law - everywhere but towards expanding opportunity for our most marginalized children.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • World
  • Children
  • Opportunity

• War violates the natural order of things, in which children bury their parents; in war parents bury their children.

  

  Jeh Johnson
  • Children
  • War
  • Parents

• children once settled and confident can mostly be left, it seems, to manage their difficulties without us. Only what we must do, always and unalterably, is hold their hand firmly in general goodwill, then they themselves seem to deal with their own particular troubles far better than we can.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • Children
  • Hand
  • Confident

• As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation.

  

  Dennis Cardoza
  • Children