Drew Barrymore Quotes

The best kind of parent you can be is to lead by example.

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• There is always pressure in football.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Football
  • Always
  • Pressure

• The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.

  

  Adam Dell
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Friends
  • Nice
  • Thought

• A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Work
  • May
  • You

• My roles in the '80s were, like, gender dysphoric. I wasn't pretty, I wasn't this, I wasn't that. And I am kind of butchy, you know. That's just my thing.

  

  Pamela Adlon
  • Roles
  • Gender
  • Dysphoric

• I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • World
  • Like
  • English

• I'm sick of having red hair, but people seem to like that aesthetic.

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • People
  • Hair
  • Red

• Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • People
  • Good
  • Best

• I'm a very lucky girl.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Girl
  • Lucky
  • Very

• In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Real
  • Service
  • Competition

• I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Up
  • Woman
  • Testosterone

• Where would we be without inhibitions? They're quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • You
  • Look
  • Lose

• We know that 99.9% of Arab-Israelis are loyal to Israel.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Know
  • Israel
  • Loyal

• I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Always
  • Justice
  • Facts

• Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Novel

• If you've got cool nails, you wake up and you're like, 'Oh, I'm happy now.'

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Cool

• The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • People
  • American
  • Happy

• Decisions of this Court do not have intrinsic authority.

  

  Felix Frankfurter

• I was a truant. And if you're a truant in New York City, the truant officer gets after you, and then you get into the courts, and then things happen which they really shouldn't. But I ended up in a very sweet reform school. It's the place you go to if you've got a really kind judge.

  

  David Carradine
  • Up
  • School
  • City

• Form follows beauty.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Beauty
  • Form
  • Follows

• When I was in the 12th grade, I got my girlfriend pregnant. I just got out of school, she was a 10th-grader. I'm a teen parent, and I'm at a point where I'm like, 'Man I've got to do something.'

  

  Ice T
  • School
  • She
  • Man

• I have ideas for songs all the time, but musical ideas, like melodies, really come out when I'm in nature.

  

  Brett Dennen
  • Nature
  • Ideas
  • Songs

• Every August, I go away for four weeks to a place in Michigan. I work in the mornings, spend the month in shorts and flip-flops. It gives me time to think like an investor and come back in September for some heavy planning.

  

  Joe Mansueto
  • Time
  • Work
  • Planning

• The best kind of parent you can be is to lead by example.

  

  Drew Barrymore