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

• 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

• By way of news, I can tell you that Couture, that bad-tempered fellow, has completely given up painting. It's no great pity; in this exhibition, he had some really bad paintings.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Up
  • Great
  • Bad

• Mrs. Pidgeon: That little girl whose mother is in the, um, 'threesome.' Why do you say she's confused about her gender? She seems perfectly normal to me.Sparrow: Mom, she's a boy.Mrs. Pidgeon: Oh. Well then, I'm not quite so worried about that revealing top. I was going to speak to her mother.

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Why
  • She
  • Mother

• When I do write, it happens really easily. I'll just kind of sing along to whatever I'm playing, then find a line to build off of, then sit down and write. When I do write, I take care of business!

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • Business
  • Care
  • Down

• That island of England breeds very valiant creatures; their mastiffs are of unmatchable courage.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Courage
  • Creatures
  • Valiant

• I am not patriotic or nationalistic, but the French language is like a country where I take refuge when I have nowhere else to go. It consoles me for everything. For me, the language no longer belongs to the colonialists.

  

  Leila Slimani
  • Country
  • Patriotic

• Environmentalists and secular humanists insist that humans will destroy the planet. Corporate capitalists and many religious fundamentalists have no regard for wildlife and nature. Ultimately, this dualistic battle is based on false premises. In fact, this planet is more powerful than the human species.

  

  Zeena Schreck
  • Nature
  • Powerful
  • Religious

• I'd been involved with stand-up before improv, so I already thought highly of myself as being a funny person. I never thought I wasn't funny.

  

  Matt Besser
  • Up
  • Funny

• 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