James Wolk Quotes

My mom is an art teacher and my dad owns a women's shoe store, so they're not actors by any means. Well, I guess to sell women's shoes, you have to be an actor.

James Wolk

• Women
• Art
• Dad
• Mom
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• Shoes

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• My mother has been a wonderful model for the professional woman - a loving mother dedicated to both her family and her work. She inspired me, made me proud, and developed in me an enormous respect for women in general.

  

  H. Robert Horvitz
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Work
  • Why
  • Art

• I like to think I'm a role model for women. But I also don't like to just limit it to women. I like to think I'm a role model for human beings in general.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Women
  • Think
  • Model

• It is not weird for a dad to be doing the dishes, the laundry, and taking the kids to school, and read them stories for bed.

  

  Zach Cregger
  • School
  • Kids
  • Dad

• We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Life
  • Children
  • Together

• They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven's sakes in India.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Women
  • Know
  • Heaven

• I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Up
  • Time
  • May

• There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Art
  • Happiness

• My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Up
  • Me
  • Dad

• Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Art
  • Me
  • Best

• I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Work
  • Art
  • Elegance

• I didn't have any role models really. My best friend was a dog. My mum and dad saved a dog from the gutter and that dog was my brother before Jesse was born. Sami was his name and he was my role model.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Dad
  • Friend
  • Best

• Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Art

• By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures - we are enhancing our own.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Men
  • Women
  • Live

• Men, in fact, are excited and looking forward to settling down and having families and being true partners with women in relationships that are full of excitement, unpredictability, adventure, and loyalty.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Country
  • Family
  • Mother

• Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Women
  • Character
  • Beautiful

• We need to say that women have sex, have abortions, are at peace with the decision, and move on with their lives. We need to say that is their right, and, moreover, it's good for everyone that they have this right: The whole society benefits when motherhood is voluntary.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Good
  • Women
  • Society

• My mom always said that there would be haters. Not everyone can love ya.

  

  Joel Madden Good Charlotte
  • Mom
  • Haters

• The minute I went into business, I was a success, and I've done well ever since.

  

  David L. Wolper
  • Done
  • Business
  • Success

• I will throw all my best efforts into it, my thoughts and political observations, but ultimately I want to create a narrative that keeps you turning the pages and leaves you with a sense that this thing has a reason for being there.

  

  Frank Miller
  • Political
  • Thoughts

• I was at art school that had quite a celebrated film course as well. I tried for that film course when I was 18, but they said I was too young. I tried this audio and visual design course instead. Two years later, I reapplied for that higher course, but they said I was still too young and to try in five years.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • School
  • Art
  • Design

• There has been a transition from a nuclear-annihilation scenario to an isolated-terrorist-nuclear-bomb scenario. But we're still locked into a mind-set that nuclear war would be so overwhelming that any kind of preparedness would be futile.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Mind
  • War
  • Kind

• My mom is an art teacher and my dad owns a women's shoe store, so they're not actors by any means. Well, I guess to sell women's shoes, you have to be an actor.

  

  James Wolk
  • Women
  • Art
  • Dad