Paulette Goddard Quotes

I am not temperamental. I just know what I want and if I don't have it, I try to get it.

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• I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which is different than working in programming, you don't need to know. You could just write and discover where you're going. And it's a great deal of fun.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Great
  • Different
  • Writing

• One thing that bugs me in comedy is when somebody does a fake cry, you know, like they fake cry in a comedy. But in a drama they'll really cry. That bugs me.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• Kim Jong-un's style is more suggestive of Saddam Hussein or his murderous son, Uday Hussein.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Style
  • Son
  • More

• Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Life
  • Good
  • Questions

• Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Money
  • Know
  • Security

• If people ask me to describe my look, I always say: 'Quite classic with an edge.'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Look
  • Ask

• I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • America
  • Happy
  • Boy

• I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Life
  • Moral
  • My Life

• I remember the general anxiety of teenager, and I remember establishing some sort of appearance based on what my peers would think. And cliques, oh my God, the worst. The worst!

  

  Eden Sher
  • God
  • Remember
  • Think

• The most depressing part of the 2016 election is that the candidates often failed to show any cultural leadership: any recognition that the world of public policy was important but hardly the only good and necessary part of our shared society.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • World
  • Good
  • Important

• Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • People
  • Work
  • Hope

• If your partner is consistently unhappy, it won't matter if they're incredibly sexy, wildly funny, impressively successful, adorably charismatic - your relationship will be weighed down under the heaviness of their moods.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Funny
  • Relationship
  • Sexy

• My agenda is not to reassure anybody outside Lebanon.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Outside
  • Lebanon
  • Reassure

• Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Person
  • Talent
  • Genius

• I can go into a restaurant; I might have to go a few times, taste something, love it and figure out exactly what is in there, and go home and duplicate it.

  

  Tamala Jones
  • Home
  • Taste
  • Figure

• There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Good
  • Job
  • Culture

• I think the whole definition of a geek is somebody being passionate and focused, and being proud of saying that they're passionate and focused, on a narrow range of subjects.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Think
  • Proud
  • Saying

• A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Science
  • Space
  • Fiction

• In the future, financial firms of any type whose failure would pose a systemic risk must accept especially close regulatory scrutiny of their risk-taking.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Future
  • Risk
  • Failure

• If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Painting
  • Understand
  • Beforehand

• God works to over throw the ungodly, and increasingly the world will come under the dominion of Christians, not by military aggression, but by godly labor, saving, in vestment, and orientation toward the future... This is where history is going. The future belongs to the people of God, who obey His laws

  

  David Chilton
  • People
  • Christian
  • Military

• If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn't make me happy. That's why I'm working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ.

  

  David Guetta
  • People
  • Music
  • Why

• A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not only of recombining but of re-creating the given world. In order to do this adequately, avoiding duplication of labor, the artist should know the given world.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • World
  • Artist
  • Study

• I am not temperamental. I just know what I want and if I don't have it, I try to get it.

  

  Paulette Goddard