Penny Marshall Quotes

Yankee Stadium was the only thing we had in the Bronx. It was an institution.

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• I wanted to go to college and play football.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • College
  • Play
  • Football

• I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Truth

• Most men are fragile.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Men
  • Most
  • Fragile

• I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Playing
  • Early
  • Bars

• Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term to describe portfolios that have been assembled for purposes other than serving the clients' best interests.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Best
  • Financial
  • Serving

• The hijab is a symbol that we wear on our heads, but I want people to know that it is my choice. I'm doing it because I want to do it. I wanted people to see that you could still be really cute and modest at the same time.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Time
  • Same

• He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.

  

  Saadi
  • God
  • Slave
  • Stomach

• 'Doctor Who' is where my love of science fiction and fantasy started. I was introduced to it when I was 8, and I'm still an avid viewer.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Love
  • Science
  • Doctor

• There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Family
  • May
  • Together

• My job is to come up with something that you like and you agree with that you would play wholeheartedly. If we disagree, I may not be doing my job correctly.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Up
  • May
  • Job

• We were tremendously encouraged by the testing of Analyze That. Audiences loved it. They were telling us that they liked it as much as the original. We recorded the laughs in the theater.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Loved
  • Original
  • Testing

• Money isn't everything. Do you get married because of money? Do you have kids because of money?

  

  Walter Payton
  • Money
  • Kids
  • You

• Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway,And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Truth

• At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want - for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war. (15 April 1943)

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Peace

• If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Good
  • Knowledge

• To me, it's about always trying to make decisions that reflect my leadership and who I am.

  

  Andrew Whitworth
  • Trying
  • Leadership

• I've always been inspired by Genet, Henry Miller and Hubert Selby, Jr., who taught me that you've got to tell a bigger truth in whatever you're doing, but the truth is not popular.

  

  Lydia Lunch
  • Truth
  • Inspired
  • Popular

• Whenever you have a character in which one of his defining qualities is his sexuality, it's always challenging, because you don't want to bring in someone who's going to play that in a phony way.

  

  Nelsan Ellis
  • Character

• India does not encourage - India has forbidden - child labour. We are a rule-based and rule-governed country.

  

  Anand Sharma
  • Country

• If I had my way, the woman I marry, she wouldn't be a part of Twitter and she wouldn't be on Facebook.

  

  Lance Gross
  • She
  • Woman
  • Facebook

• There have been many great performers, but only four great stylists-Al Jolson, Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams, and Jerry Lee Lewis.

  

  Jerry Lee Lewis
  • Great

• Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material.

  

  John Deacon Queen

• It was, you know, probably 80 degrees out in L.A., and my dad took me outside and there was snow. At the time, I thought, 'Every kid doesn't have snow in their backyard on Christmas?'

  

  Tori Spelling
  • Christmas
  • Kid
  • Snow

• Yankee Stadium was the only thing we had in the Bronx. It was an institution.

  

  Penny Marshall