Penny Marshall Quotes

Once I commit to something, I complete it. If I say 'no,' I mean 'no.' I just have to learn how to say 'no' more.

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• Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.

  

  Kate Smith
  • People
  • Family
  • Friends

• If you solve both the consumer problems and the corporate problems, you can win at this game. If you reinvent what a corporation is currently selling, it can often make the leap.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Game
  • Win
  • Problems

• I'm very interested in the idea of unusual museums, ones that are not necessarily contemporary art museums - more like historical collections or house museums.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Art
  • House
  • Idea

• Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Know
  • Dad
  • Like

• I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Football
  • Sports
  • Baseball

• People often call 'If I Stay' my baby novel, and I have to correct them. It's not my first book. It's just the first one anybody paid attention to.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • People
  • Book
  • Attention

• What I worry about and don't like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has declined into cultural relativism. I think that's very dangerous. When the Archbishop of Canterbury, for God's sake, says that you can't have one law for everybody... that's stupid.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • God
  • Law
  • Worry

• I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • God
  • Understand
  • Curious

• When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • People
  • You
  • Know

• Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • People
  • Death
  • Songs

• I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Live
  • Child
  • Ethiopia

• Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Future
  • Past
  • Hand

• It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Up
  • You
  • Courage

• I don't purposely push the boundaries... I think if you pay attention to a story, it will have exactly as much 'difficult material' as it needs, and nobody will complain about it because you've earnt it.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Think
  • You
  • Attention

• As for myself, I was never against Russia.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Russia

• Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• I wrote my songs despite the fact that I was a drunk, not because of it.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Drunk

• We take the same line as the United States: the austerity policies need to be accompanied by greater flexibility to stimulate growth.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Growth

• The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe
  • True
  • Mankind

• I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Me
  • Day
  • Focus

• The scariest time of my life was when I knew my Nana was dying. It was horrible, as there's nothing I could do to stop it. I grew up living with my Mum, brother and Nana (my mum's mum), so it felt like I lost a parent rather than a grandparent. It makes you realise the fragility of life.

  

  Nikki Sanderson
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Parent

• There's a funny thing that, in film now, everybody thinks that the director does everything, and in TV, everybody thinks that the writer does everything, and I'm quite comfortable with that as a director. I don't mind that.

  

  Colm McCarthy
  • Mind
  • Funny

• A man is as old as his arteries and his interests. If he permits his economic, religious, or social arteries to harden, or loses interest in whatever concerns mankind... he will need only six feet of earth.

  

  Josephus Daniels
  • Earth
  • Religious
  • Mankind

• Once I commit to something, I complete it. If I say 'no,' I mean 'no.' I just have to learn how to say 'no' more.

  

  Penny Marshall