Derek Jeter Quotes

I think when things linger, that's when they become a distraction. I don't want any distractions.

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• I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported by the Tea Party, the Conservative Party and the Republican Party. I come from a Democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • World
  • Political
  • Party

• I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Surprise
  • Obsessed
  • Kitty

• I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Fun
  • Myself

• I don't think God cares a whole lot about the outcome. He cares about the people involved, but I don't think he's a big football fan.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • God
  • Football

• I grew up in the indie world, and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Pretty
  • Guitar
  • Gut

• The means that make one qualified for enquiry are meditation, yoga, etc. One should gain proficiency in these through graded practice and thus secure a stream of mental modes that is natural and helpful.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Practice
  • Yoga
  • Meditation

• It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Mankind
  • Peculiar
  • Transcend

• My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • Body

• People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • People
  • Women
  • Black

• If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?

  

  Sally Struthers
  • God
  • Why
  • Man

• You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Want
  • Man
  • You

• Fashion is an industry of action, not discussion.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Action
  • Fashion
  • Industry

• My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Pretty
  • Dad
  • Sometimes

• My first job, I worked at 'YM' and I had an extremely tough boss who made me cry every single day. But what I took away from that was how I would never be.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Job
  • Single
  • Day

• It should not be the government running the economy.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Running
  • Government
  • Should

• You grow up... you spend five years rooming with each other, and you're going to get sick of each other at times. And you're going to have some good times as well.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Up
  • Good
  • Sick

• What I'm interested in is human beings alone.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Alone
  • Human
  • Human Beings

• If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • People
  • Country
  • Enemy

• I have a knack of making villainous people a little bit sympathetic, a bit of fun on screen.

  

  Michael Caine
  • People
  • Fun
  • Sympathetic

• Sometimes when you lose your mobile phone, even though it's frustrating, it's sort of rewarding in many ways because, though we do rely on them a lot, we are not reliant on them. The world continues without.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • World

• The thing that I've run up against is that it's always been an either-or proposition, especially in Hollywood. You're either young and glamorous and you're going to get the lead and get the man at the end of the picture, or it's the opposite: you're a character actress, you're not attractive enough for the other role, and so you're playing the friend or the killer or the lesbian or the doctor or whatever.

  

  Kathy Bates
  • Up
  • Character
  • Friend

• I think when things linger, that's when they become a distraction. I don't want any distractions.

  

  Derek Jeter