Jane Fonda Quotes

The '60s may be idealized in the movie from a cultural point of view, but the decade was all about discord and a big generational split that was very painful.

Jane Fonda

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• I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Fun

• I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Amazing

• Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Want
  • Unique
  • Athlete

• If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Truth
  • You
  • Paint

• I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.

  

  Fan Bingbing
  • Important
  • Beautiful
  • Beauty

• The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Important
  • Me
  • Influence

• I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Up
  • Different
  • Song

• Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Water
  • Growth
  • Key

• If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Chance

• The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • World
  • Nature

• You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • War
  • You
  • Peace

• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.

  

  Harold Taylor
  • Time
  • Important
  • Ahead

• I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and history, but in math and science I was a screw-up. Wooster saw something in me, and I really flourished there. I got into theatre, took photography and painting classes.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Up
  • Great
  • School

• The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Time
  • Power
  • Plant

• I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Reading

• I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!

  

  Hannah Cowley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Late

• The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Words
  • Magic
  • Internet

• The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.

  

  Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Small
  • Band

• To win a joint gold medal with my brother - that's the dream, to cross the line together.

  

  Jonathan Brownlee
  • Together
  • Dream
  • Brother

• I have a sister and her name is Mimsy, like from 'Alice in Wonderland,' so we've got some strange names in our family.

  

  Brie Larson
  • Family
  • Sister

• In my 39 years in the military, I have learned that you are not a profession just because you say you are. You have to earn it and re-earn it and re-evaluate it from time to time.

  

  Martin Dempsey
  • Time
  • Military

• I never in a million years thought I would be starring in Hairspray, ever. Because if you think about my past, it's been 30 years of playing a macho leading man, so when I was offered it, I said: "Why? Why me? What have I done to deserve that you think I should do this?" After much convincing, over a year and two months, I was convinced they wanted to make a great movie.

  

  John Travolta
  • Great
  • Men
  • Thinking

• The '60s may be idealized in the movie from a cultural point of view, but the decade was all about discord and a big generational split that was very painful.

  

  Jane Fonda
  • May
  • Movie