Dixie Lee Ray Quotes

The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.

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• Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you don't have kids. When you have kids, things change in your life.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Movie

• As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
  • Character
  • Job

• For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • You
  • Mean
  • Three

• I'm a huge Cure fan. I love the Cure. The scales being tipped to when they weren't on a major label compared to when they were seems pretty meaningless. I had the good fortune of having them go before me and seeing their careers, musically at least, lose something. Like a novel written by a dead hand.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • Like
  • Novel
  • Careers

• I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief... All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • World
  • God
  • Friends

• Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Time
  • Inevitable
  • Incredible

• Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Time
  • Important
  • Long

• A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Business
  • Me
  • Marriage

• Actually, I wanted to become a journalist, but no matter who I imagined myself to be in the future, somehow I was sure: I would leave my hometown. I felt it was my destiny.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Future
  • Myself
  • Destiny

• People's lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you're still vital, and you're still interested in writing and things like that, of course your music evolves and reflects where you are in your life.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I love the produce section at the grocery store.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Produce
  • Store
  • Grocery

• Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.

  

  Jack Gould
  • Sex
  • Television
  • Taxes

• What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Writing
  • Place
  • Might

• You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • You
  • Interesting
  • Language

• That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Kind
  • Take

• I would never wear anything too revealing. I'm not a fan of dresses where you look nude... I think that looks a bit desperate.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Think
  • Never
  • Look

• My friends always laugh because I'm the kind of person who bought the Brooks Brothers school skirt, even though it's not my school's uniform skirt, but just because I liked it. I'm a knee-high socks kind of person.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • School
  • Friends
  • High

• I grew up all over the place, but the majority of my years were spent in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

  

  Freddie Prinze, Jr.
  • Up

• Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck in the classics.

  

  Liev Schreiber
  • Style
  • Personality

• Argentina shows opportunity for doing good business, taking care of the environment to fight climate change, paying taxes. Argentina will continue to grow.

  

  Mauricio Macri
  • Good
  • Business
  • Opportunity

• One should adpot only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand--or escape.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Escape
  • Dancer
  • Virtues

• When we invoke the soul we move from the realm of information to the more vital realm of wisdom, the attainment of which is the only true value of learning.

  

  Edmund Fuller
  • Learning
  • Wisdom
  • Information

• The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented.

  

  Dixie Lee Ray
  • Environment