Mary Steenburgen Quotes

My family didn't have money to travel, so reading was how I knew about the world. It made me hungry to have more experiences than just what I could possibly experience in Arkansas.

Mary Steenburgen

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• Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage.

  

  Gabriele D'Annunzio
  • Courage
  • Limit

• All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Ends
  • Bring
  • Reckoning

• I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • City
  • Race
  • Meetings

• A leader is admired, a boss is feared.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • Leader
  • Boss
  • Feared

• Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • White
  • Though
  • Hispanic

• I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.

  

  Rachel True
  • Think
  • Follower
  • Frankly

• I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded from view over the last couple of decades, but they are fighting the good fight.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • Good
  • Work
  • May

• I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Think
  • Very
  • Respectful

• I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Perfectly
  • Symmetrical

• I truly believe diversity is beauty.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Believe
  • Beauty
  • Diversity

• The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Political
  • Change
  • Technology

• New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Why
  • Business
  • Character

• The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Power
  • Focus
  • Serious

• One of the first albums that I remember, rap albums I remember really listening to, was LL Cool J 'Mama Said Knock You Out.'

  

  Damian Marley
  • Remember
  • Cool
  • Listening

• God's words first... obey God's law first before considering the laws of man.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • God
  • Man
  • Words

• My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • Father
  • Me
  • Religious

• Global actions require local and national participation. International cooperation and action requires community perspectives and legitimacy if it is to be effective.

  

  Ian Goldin
  • Community
  • Action

• There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • People
  • Want
  • Fortune

• Software touches all of these different things you use, and tech companies are revolutionizing all different areas of the world...from how we shop to how farming works, all these things that aren't technical are being turned upside down by software. So being able to play in that universe really makes a difference.

  

  Drew Houston
  • World
  • Different
  • Universe

• Go to the family where darkness and suspicion and jealousy and disorder reign, and if they will but receive Christ, mark how light and confidence and order and peace spring up. Go to the regions of superstition and idolatry, and see what transformations are effected by Jesus.

  

  Edward Thomson
  • Family
  • Christ
  • Darkness

• [Michelle Obama] was the hardest sell. And she never fully embraced being in the public spotlight, which is ironic, given how good she is.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • She
  • Given

• 'I Was There Too' talks to people who played non-starring roles in big movies. That means the likes of comedian Jimmy Pardo, who didn't make it to the finished 'Dreamgirls.' Still, he recalls that when an actor is put on hold for a movie, he gets paid for two weeks just for sitting at home waiting to be called.

  

  David Hepworth
  • People
  • Home
  • Movie

• My family didn't have money to travel, so reading was how I knew about the world. It made me hungry to have more experiences than just what I could possibly experience in Arkansas.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • World
  • Family
  • Money