Mary Steenburgen Quotes
Ultimately, there are only two emotions: love and fear. And pretty much anything else you want to name can be broken down into one of those.
Quotes to Explore
-
I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
-
When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
-
Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
-
I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.
-
The most important thing that everybody can do, aside from building and keeping your network strong, is make good choices about your health.
-
Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
-
I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
-
Americans resident in China inform us that the ballot box in their country is greatly abused for personal ends, and Chinese admirers of the American Republic have not minutely examined its defects.
-
The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.
-
I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.
-
I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
-
'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
-
With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.
-
Twitter means all my friends are in my computer. All my ideas are in my computer. I can do whatever I want in there; I'm kind of... bionic.
-
In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.
-
I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?
-
I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
-
I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European.
-
I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.
-
This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity.
-
Throughout the ages, Christians have adapted John of Patmos's visions to changing times, reading their own social, political and religious conflicts into the cosmic war he so powerfully evokes. Yet his Book of Revelation appeals not only to fear and desires for vengeance but also to hope.
-
Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.
-
Listen at me. The end is almost never far off any time at all!
-
Ultimately, there are only two emotions: love and fear. And pretty much anything else you want to name can be broken down into one of those.
