Jean Harlow Quotes

I wasn't born an actress, you know. Events made me one.

Jean Harlow

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• If we can deter the Soviet Union, if we can deter North Korea, why on earth can't we deter Iran?

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Why
  • Earth
  • Iran

• One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

  

  Jack London
  • Nature
  • Without
  • Cannot

• If there's a pool I love to hangout there and layout and get some sun. If I can ever find a second to get some sun, some Vitamin D, I will do so.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Love
  • Sun
  • Find

• Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Game
  • Pressure
  • Cricket

• Startling, and alarming to many, is the conclusion that follows from these data that if all people were treated the same, most average race differences would not disappear.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • People
  • Same
  • Data

• I'm a stand-up comic. I'm always doing dates; it's just that, if I'm working on a project or I'm busy, I can't get out on the road or book any shows. Since the beginning of my career, I'm usually out for at least 10-15 dates throughout the year. If I have time, then I try to get at least 30-40 dates.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Up
  • Time
  • Book

• I think I've explained earlier on in the year that I kind of underestimated how important experience was in this series, especially when you're up against such good quality drivers.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Up
  • Good
  • Important

• My 'Dunkirk' co-star Harry Styles deals with some crazy fan stuff, but he's a very down-to-earth, lovely, funny guy.

  

  Fionn Whitehead
  • Guy
  • Earth
  • Funny

• Oh yeah, I know Johnnie Bassett. We were part of that whole thing.

  

  Eddie Floyd
  • Know
  • Oh
  • Oh Yeah

• What science fiction does is take what might be possible someday and examine what might happen if it were - the drawbacks and the positive things.

  

  Gardner Dozois
  • Science
  • Positive
  • Possible

• With but a few exceptions, we don't have this personal study under masters any more. Craftsmanship has sunk very low. We no longer have any universally creative persons who are able to guide young learners not only in technical matters but also, at the same time, in a formal way.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Time
  • Study
  • Creative

• L.A. is great, but it's a completely different beast. I go back to Minnesota, and I borrow a bike from my neighbor and go around Lake Harriet saying 'Hi' to people. Some of that is missing in L.A.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• America has always welcomed anyone willing to assimilate to its national character. But radical Islam rejects assimilation and is bent on the conquest of our national character.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Character
  • America
  • Islam

• I grew up as a child actress, not a child star. I was an actress - big difference.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Up
  • Star
  • Child

• There is something about New York City that in and of itself is so theatrical hat I use to think... I use to feel when I walked out of my apartment on the way to school or anywhere that I was walking out on stage.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • School
  • City
  • Walking

• You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in - in 2007, we just didn't know it was uncertain. It was - uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn't know it.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Time
  • Know

• If you've got kids who aren't being looked after by their parents, there's only so many times you can try and intervene to get that right.

  

  Adam Giles
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • You

• I want to get off with the screenwriting.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Want
  • Off
  • Screenwriting

• I feel there has to be a certain amount of improvisation as I'm writing, which means any idea or any commitment to a project is risky. It involves time; it involves gathering of material, and sometimes it just doesn't work. Sometimes it does. As I'm starting out on a project, I can't tell if it will click or not.

  

  Joanna Scott
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being.

  

  Plato
  • Human being
  • Destroys
  • Lack

• Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

  

  John Cheever
  • Good
  • Knowledge
  • Evil

• To me, art almost always speaks more forcefully when it appears in an imperfect, accidental, and fragmentary way, somehow just signaling its presence, allowing one to feel it through the ineptitude of the interpretation. I prefer the Chopin that reaches me in the street from an open window to the Chopin served in great style from the concert stage.

  

  Witold Gombrowicz
  • Art
  • Style

• Jesus built a ship to sing a song to, it sails the rivers and it sails the tide. Some of my friends don't know who they belong to, some can't get a single thing to work inside.

  

  Ingram Cecil Connor III The Byrds
  • Friends
  • Inside
  • Belong

• I wasn't born an actress, you know. Events made me one.

  

  Jean Harlow