Janet Reno Quotes

Being a lawyer is not merely a vocation. It is a public trust, and each of us has an obligation to give back to our communities.

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• When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Best

• Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Work
  • Book
  • Chef

• A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • War
  • Boy
  • Hero

• It's on my bucket list, to get in a real fight.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • Real
  • Fight
  • List

• My father passed away in 1942, and three-four months after his death, I had to start working. There was a responsibility on my shoulders to run the household. It was my duty as the eldest child in the house.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Father
  • House
  • Death

• I thought of Jeff Bridges in 'Hell or High Water' and Ben Foster, and I kept trying very hard not to, because you're terrified you're going to write this thing that then feeds specifically to this one person that then won't do it.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Trying
  • High
  • Water

• I do not make any apologies for my manner or personality. I come from a long line of very strong, black African-American women who neither bend nor bow. I haven't had very good modeling in submission.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Good
  • Long
  • Women

• I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mother

• I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Up
  • Job
  • Small

• To change what you get, you must change who you are.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • You
  • Change
  • Must

• No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Forever
  • Spring
  • Winter

• I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Long
  • Soul

• My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • Up
  • Work
  • School

• I still take advice from my mum on what clothes look good on me. I used to listen to her a lot more, but I've started to choose my own things from time to time.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Time
  • Good
  • Advice

• There are no ordinary moments.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Moments
  • Ordinary

• Inspiration is the key to everything.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Inspiration
  • Key

• Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Society
  • You
  • Know

• So many have come to me that I might serve them, leaving me no time to think of myself. However, I assure you that I do feel deep down within me, God be praised.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Time
  • God
  • Deep

• Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

  

  Anthony J. D'Angelo
  • Learning
  • Passion

• Punditry is like weather forecasting: the winds can shift without warning. I remember when nobody would bet a McDonald's Quarter Pounder that Bill Clinton would win the White House.

  

  James Carville
  • Remember
  • House

• Being a New Yorker and someone that goes to MoMA as a patron, I want it to be good.

  

  Elizabeth Diller
  • Good

• If you get to a certain age, all people want to know about you is people you knew. ...An American student once said to me, you know, isn't it extraordinary that I am alive and you're not dead.

  

  Stephen Spender
  • Age
  • Certain
  • Alive

• God won’t give you more than you can handle.’” Holiday chuckled. “And we just wish He didn’t trust us so much, right?

  

  Christie Craig
  • God
  • Giving
  • Wish

• Being a lawyer is not merely a vocation. It is a public trust, and each of us has an obligation to give back to our communities.

  

  Janet Reno
  • Trust
  • Lawyer