Polly Bergen Quotes

When I was young, they just gave me the lead. And when I got old, they wouldn't see me at all.

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• When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Learning
  • English
  • Years

• I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• For centuries, building materials were free. You want to build a house, you cut down some trees. But we haven't been thinking about the cost to the planet.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • Thinking
  • House
  • Free

• I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Talent
  • Ambitious
  • Monstrosity

• I'm not a fan of self-help books - how can something be 'self-help' if the book itself is purportedly helping you?

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Book
  • Help
  • You

• Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Up
  • Children
  • Culture

• The toughest thing to do in politics is to do the right thing when your supporters think the right thing is something else.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • Think
  • Politics

• He's a threat to win until his brain turns to tapioca.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Brain
  • Win
  • Threat

• I genuinely miss writing now on the rare days I don't write; my mouth waters when I think about writing, and I have an extreme physical reaction to the idea of doing it.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Doing

• During the course of the seven years I played scenes with an oil slick, I played a scene with a grain of rice. Sometimes with indescribable creatures. I remember having a conversation with something which was simply a smell, that's all. It was part of our job.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Job
  • Remember
  • Conversation

• New York reminds me a little bit of Canada and my upbringing. Los Angeles is like living in a vacation, and you have to pinch yourself every once and a while.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Yourself
  • New York
  • Vacation

• I think everyone dreams of that nice romantic wedding.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Nice
  • Dreams
  • Romantic

• If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Me
  • Lying
  • Say

• We have always adapted ourselves to the songs instead of vice versa.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Always
  • Songs
  • Vice

• Hugh, I know I shouldn't even be asking you this, but what we really need in order to go in and take out Saddam is a precipitous event-something that would make us look good in the eyes of the world.  Could you have one of our U-2s fly low enough-and slow enough-so as to guarantee that Saddam could shoot it down?

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • World
  • Good
  • Eyes

• Television will enormously enlarge the eye's range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote.

  

  E. B. White
  • Together

• Everybody, yeah. Rock your body, yeah.Everybody, yeah, rock your body right.Backstreet's back, alright!

  

  Backstreet Boys
  • Rock

• I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goals.

  

  Bonnie Blair
  • Success
  • Health
  • Goals

• Either your troubles make you better, or they make you bitter. We must always examine what’s going on in our hearts.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Heart
  • Trouble
  • Bitter

• Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Up
  • Different
  • Bad

• I've also been willing to share any help that I could give to any other artist.

  

  Kenneth Noland
  • Help

• If you take psychedelics and the Internet and music and put all of that together you have the basis for a new community that is wider and deeper than you know. The people who are building the new machines, who are designing the new circuitry, who are writing the new code are ALL freaks. They work for capitalist dogs, of course, because we all do, but the creative thrust of these technologies is being driven by people just like you and me.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • People
  • Writing
  • Together

• The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the past and future are conquered and reconciled.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Future
  • Past
  • Existence

• When I was young, they just gave me the lead. And when I got old, they wouldn't see me at all.

  

  Polly Bergen