Desiree Rogers Quotes

I've always been searching. What am I going to do with all this - searching for that place where I could be me.

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• Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Mom

• To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Me
  • Human
  • Existence

• Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Person
  • Idea
  • Suffer

• War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Exercise
  • Matter

• I get along with guys; most of my friends are guys. It's easier to trust men sometimes. I only have a few close girlfriends that I trust.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Men
  • Friends
  • Relationship

• And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Think
  • Heaven
  • Blessing

• There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • People
  • Work
  • Action

• I want to keep active, so when they called me to fight Nate Diaz, I agreed because I wanted to stay active. I got a little surprised because he was out so long, but he's a tough opponent.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Long
  • Fight
  • Tough

• I have my career and my family, and that's it.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Family
  • Career

• If you're too free, you're like the way Hong Kong is now. It's very chaotic.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Free
  • You
  • Now

• If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Knowledge
  • Path
  • Garden

• I used to teach at a private school, and the parents thought I loved their children. I did not love their children! I liked them well enough, but I was always delighted to see them go off for summer vacation.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Children
  • School
  • Love

• In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Life
  • Art
  • Guy

• One line I'd draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are living longer. But it isn't. Lower income workers are the ones who find it hardest to keep working after 65. And they'll get penalized with lower benefits.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Age
  • Security

• One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.

  

  Edie Falco
  • People
  • Think
  • Watching

• Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • May
  • Fall
  • Confidence

• Je représente un parti qui n'existe pas encore, le parti Révolution-Civilisation. Ce parti fera le vingtième siècle. Il en sortira d'abord les États-Unis d'Europe, puis les États-Unis du Monde.

  

  Victor Hugo

• And the supreme glory of all this, my love, is to think that maybe this isn't true, neither may I believe it true.And when lying starts giving us pleasure, let's speak the truth so that we lie to it.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Believe
  • May
  • Truth

• I have everything. Everything I have, I've worked for.

  

  Nate Diaz

• The emphasis on sorcery reflected accusations by the authorities more than it did actual practice. Being threatened, the Church responded by virulent persecution.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Church
  • Practice

• My parents come from that immigrant culture that places a lot of emphasis on doing well scholastically. Being a comedian or an actor is such an American thing. The Iranian culture is not about dreaming. It's about taking over your father's business, falling into line.

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • Business
  • American
  • Father

• As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to set very sages questioning.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Universe
  • Lights
  • Milky Way

• Complaining is what we do when we are really not praying.

  

  Gerald Brooks
  • Complaining
  • Praying
  • We Do

• I've always been searching. What am I going to do with all this - searching for that place where I could be me.

  

  Desiree Rogers