Jeff Lindsay Quotes

It was a tremendous stroke of good luck that the show got Michael C. Hall to play the part. Everyone I've talked to thinks Michael is a perfect 'Dexter,' which never happens.

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• I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • School
  • Day
  • Sick

• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Up
  • Different
  • Learn

• Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Success
  • Film

• In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Beginning
  • Dance
  • Much

• It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • People
  • Book
  • Amazing

• One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Hair
  • Gay
  • Unique

• I don't believe in strong-arming people.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Believe
  • Strong

• I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Music
  • History
  • Training

• I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Up
  • Think
  • Dad

• On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Achieve
  • Anger
  • Apology

• Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Important
  • Support
  • Taken

• As a prosecutor, I got a paycheck for coming to work every day. I didn't get a promotion when I won, and I didn't get a demotion when I did a bad job.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Work
  • Job
  • Bad

• I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As Secretary-General, I am determined to see this organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that advance peace, development and human rights.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Up
  • Country
  • Experience

• I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Fashion
  • Wilderness
  • Connect

• My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • High

• This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • Different
  • Result
  • Using

• I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Want
  • Man
  • Serious

• This life that I've led has been really well suited for me.

  

  Christina Ricci
  • Life

• You know, being an entrepreneur is super hard work, and if you're not passionate about what you're doing, you're probably not going to succeed.

  

  Jeff Raikes
  • Work
  • Entrepreneur

• The one thing I loved so much about making 'Pitch Perfect 2' - especially in comparison to a movie like 'Ten Thousand Saints' - is you can go and be yourself, and you just know that all your weirdness and craziness and imperfections are completely embraced and accepted.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Movie
  • Perfect
  • Yourself

• It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers.

  

  Janet Echelman
  • Good
  • Art
  • Experience

• Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.

  

  John Ortberg
  • Life
  • Good
  • Art

• It was a tremendous stroke of good luck that the show got Michael C. Hall to play the part. Everyone I've talked to thinks Michael is a perfect 'Dexter,' which never happens.

  

  Jeff Lindsay
  • Good
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  • Luck