Jennifer Beals Quotes

You automatically are trusting because not only is the person a friend, they are so incredibly gifted that you know someone is going to be able to hit the ball back to you across the net.

Jennifer Beals

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• I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Money
  • Help
  • Mother

• Creation's highest aim and most sublime result is belief in God. The most exalted rank of humanity is knowledge of God.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Humanity

• Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Good
  • Job
  • Quality

• I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • People
  • Love
  • Always

• I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Women
  • Career
  • Thought

• I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Way
  • Like
  • Always

• Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Important
  • Children
  • Education

• We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Power
  • Fear
  • Blow

• I have struggles in screenwriting that lead me to a third act that's always more or less efficiently wrapped up in a fourth act that's trying to give closure to too many things.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Always
  • Struggles
  • Screenwriting

• Bridget Jones has a lot to answer for.

  

  Daisy Donovan
  • Answer
  • Lot
  • Bridget Jones

• Failure is a part of success.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Part

• Oil wells never really run dry. A big company will drain maybe 40% of a field. Pulling out the rest of the oil, which requires an outlay of incrementally more cash per barrel, often proves uneconomical for big companies with big overheads.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Rest
  • Company
  • Oil

• A lot of people get stereotyped into roles just from how they look, and I have played such a variety of characters.

  

  Haley Lu Richardson
  • People
  • Look
  • Variety

• I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Poets
  • Influenced
  • Painters

• When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line?

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Children
  • Family
  • Man

• A stronger E.U. of defence makes NATO stronger.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Stronger
  • Defence
  • NATO

• At least I can say that I'm honest.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Say
  • Honest
  • I Can

• The only reason I became the singer in the band is because I sang the best. It wasn't out of some desire to be a star or be a famous singer. It's not like I love interviews.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Love
  • Desire
  • Band

• We tend to think of World War II and all the atrocities that happened, and people say, 'Never again.' But these things are still happening. The Amnesty International files are big.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • People
  • World
  • War

• I wanna record these girls individually. And then, I wanna cut a blues album on me. But all of it, original stuff, you know. When I listen to the blues today, it's like they all sounds similar. I wanna do something different, to try to add to the blues flavor.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Know
  • Girls
  • Blues

• Better to have one friend of great value, than many friends who were good for nothing.

  

  Anacharsis
  • Good
  • Great
  • Friends

• I had been on the road for a long time and was not really getting anywhere. Bob Johnston, a friend of mine, had taken over Columbia in Nashville. He asked me if I wanted to come down. I did - thank God I did.

  

  Charlie Daniels
  • Time
  • God
  • Long

• A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Freedom
  • Friend
  • Yourself

• You automatically are trusting because not only is the person a friend, they are so incredibly gifted that you know someone is going to be able to hit the ball back to you across the net.

  

  Jennifer Beals
  • Friend