Donna Mills Quotes

I feel more comfortable in front of a camera than anywhere else.

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• One reason the United States is one of three countries in the world that do not have any form of paid maternity leave is that many American business leaders, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, oppose any family-friendly policies. They scare people into thinking maternity leave will be a job killer.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Believe
  • History
  • Knowledge

• I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Time
  • Meat
  • Eggs

• Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Money
  • Power
  • Nature

• Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Better
  • Horse
  • Genius

• My connections to Broward are long, and they are deep, and I'm proud of them.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Long
  • Proud
  • Deep

• Even though I've done Hollywood films, I still don't think of myself as a Hollywood actress.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Done
  • Think
  • Myself

• There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • People
  • Good
  • Numbers

• The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Today
  • Space
  • Smart

• Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Real
  • Revolution
  • Sign

• It doesn't interest me to be Harrison Ford. It interests me to be Mike Pomeroy and Indiana Jones and Jack Ryan. I don't want to be in the Harrison Ford business. I take what I do seriously, but I don't take myself seriously.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Business
  • Interest
  • Seriously

• Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Mind
  • Fear
  • Exist

• I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

  

  Nancy Mitford
  • Life
  • Good
  • Book

• I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for her to meet me. Later, she started coming to my concerts, but I only got to know her well after her mother died. I rang to see how she was, and that's how it started.

  

  Gary Numan
  • She
  • Mother
  • Me

• We're living in what I like to call the 'Thank You Economy,' because only the companies that can figure out how to mind their manners in a very old-fashioned way - and do it authentically - are going to have a prayer of competing.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Mind
  • Prayer
  • Thank You

• If the heavens throw you dates, you got to keep your mouth open.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • You
  • Open
  • Mouth

• I never strike out at any life form. The only things I attack are icons of conspicuous consumption. People put objects in front of their life, in front of anything that has real importance. They make this 'thing' their God.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• I could never work in that kind of commercial environment where the stars have a lot to say, where the producers kind of push you around and tell you who to cast and who not to cast. I'm just not interested in that at all.

  

  Pawel Pawlikowski
  • Work
  • Environment

• Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about "character issues."

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Character
  • Divorce
  • Dope

• Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

  

  Dennis Prager
  • People
  • Character
  • Moral

• If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have to win.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Win

• Sometimes I intentionally cut it off. I just want to be in silence, especially when I'm traveling. I watch movies without sound.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Silence
  • Cutting
  • Sound

• I feel more comfortable in front of a camera than anywhere else.

  

  Donna Mills