Mary Schmich Quotes

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• I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Music
  • Trying

• I was the hallway clown in high school.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• I love to cook a meal for the so-called holidays. You always need the turkey. I like making a good BBQ brisket as well.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Good
  • Always
  • Making

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• What nourishes us at home and in school is what inspires us. When we get awareness and learn about the great potential that we all human beings have, we are able to discover our leadership.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Great
  • School
  • Home

• When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Mother
  • Day
  • Air

• Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Want
  • Words
  • You

• I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.

  

  Karl Malone
  • People
  • Time
  • Want

• Too often in our communities many families have not even been aware that certain charities exist; and at the same time, there are many who are willing to volunteer their energy and their resources to help these charities, yet they do not know these charities even exist.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Time
  • Help
  • Energy

• L.A.'s not a good place to grow old.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Good
  • Old
  • Grow

• I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Time
  • Career
  • Day

• I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Up
  • Growing
  • See

• I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what they get is a dark industrial wall of noise.

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Dark
  • Wonder

• You learn to be comfortable with your body. It's fine and not a big deal.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • You
  • Learn
  • Body

• Now my favourite pastime is to take a bath with my son.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Son
  • Now
  • Bath

• Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Good
  • Famous
  • Just Because

• It's kind of a funny way to put it, but if you want to study a dynamic economic system, what you'd like to be able to do is focus on the linkages, say, between asset markets and the macro economy without having to model everything at the same time.

  

  Lars Peter Hansen
  • Time
  • Funny
  • Focus

• The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top of another, in race relations, gender roles, generational conflict, the clash of church and state - so many values and vanities tossed on the bonfire, and no one had a concordance to explain why it was all happening at once.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Why
  • Church
  • Values

• There's just something about being on stage and being with the people that, once that camera turns on, you find the strength to keep it cool, look good, act like you're not cold, act like you ain't nervous, act like you aren't scared. I think that comes with confidence and practice.

  

  Prince Royce
  • People
  • Good
  • Cool

• The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the minority in small states as well as large states.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Small
  • Rights
  • Senate

• What happens [in a coma] is that you lose the grounding of the self, you no longer have access to any feeling of your own existence.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Feeling
  • Existence
  • Coma

• Christianity is not about how much faith you have. It's about Who your faith is in.

  

  Mike Donehey Tenth Avenue North
  • Faith
  • Christianity

• A few years ago, a friend said to me: "You do realize, Ian, when X-Men and Lord of the Rings come out, your life will totally change?" I didn't know what he was talking about, but he was right. My life has totally changed - but in a good way. Unbeknownst to me, it's given me a lot more confidence.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Good
  • Men

• Barbie is just a doll.

  

  Mary Schmich