Drew Barrymore Quotes

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.

Drew Barrymore

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• I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Life
  • Strong
  • Language

• Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• I began going to juvenile prisons. And some of these kids face some very, very tough lives. How do they handle these lives? Do they even know that if their life is bad, that they're still OK? Do they know that? Do they know that someone is thinking the same way that they're thinking?

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Kids

• Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • Life
  • Think
  • Dreams

• The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Complexity

• I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Life
  • Myself
  • My Life

• When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Life
  • Love
  • For Him

• I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it's true! But it may not have happened.' What my bubbe was saying is profound: All stories are true. The truth is the journey you take through it - did it make you laugh, cry, seek and want justice? Then it's true.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Truth
  • True
  • Justice

• The more understanding we have about what's going on in our own brain will just make us more capable in our own jobs, in telling our kids we love them, and living a fulfilling life.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Life
  • Love
  • Kids

• I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Life
  • Different
  • Future

• Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today?

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Business
  • High

• I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Believe
  • Spirit
  • Eternity

• You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are not materials.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Life
  • Want
  • Maturity

• I've gone to war zones before and never got shot.

  

  Manute Bol
  • War
  • Never
  • Gone

• Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Life
  • Funny
  • Laugh

• I believe that life is short, and there is too much time wasted bearing grudges, and I like to move on.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Believe

• Everyone looks me and says, 'I'm not going to let that Asian kid embarrass me. I'm going to go at him.' That's how it's been my whole life.

  

  Jeremy Lin
  • Life

• In real life, a relationship takes a long time. Either somebody is involved with somebody else, and that's ending, or somebody's hung up on an ex, or your job isn't going right, and so you're focused more on that than relationships. It just takes a lot for two people to get together.

  

  Paul Rust
  • Life
  • Real
  • Relationship

• I didn't want to go to college - I was bored by junior high. So I was in church one day, staring at the stained glass windows and thinking about things, when suddenly I decided that if I could start selling cartoons to magazines, they'd let me quit high school.

  

  Brad Holland
  • Thinking
  • School
  • High

• I don't have any weird gimmicks. I do put on lipstick for the show. That's what separates it. 'Cause I don't wear makeup at all... That's probably the closest thing I have to a routine.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Weird
  • Makeup
  • Lipstick

• Online, you can become much more than a reactive donor - you can become a proactive, strategic, collaborative philanthropist, improving your giving every day by tapping into the wealth of philanthropic resources available at the tap of a keyboard or the click of a mouse.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Giving
  • Day
  • Wealth

• My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Life
  • Choices
  • Journey