Brooke Shields Quotes

Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me.

Brooke Shields

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• I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Like
  • Hang

• But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America.'

  

  Ted Strickland
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • World
  • Kind

• Even when I was modelling, I never had a mom sitting on my head and a bunch of people waiting on me. I've always been independent. I'll do my thing and go.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • People
  • Mom
  • Waiting

• We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • American
  • Everyone
  • Greatest

• I've taken great pride in not being fragile.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Great
  • Taken
  • Pride

• I try to find 15 minutes a day to just be alone without any distractions just for headspace to meditate and get my Zen on. I think that helps me get through the hecticness of the day on tour with the interviews, the sound check, the meet and greets, the show and the post-show meet and greets.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Think
  • Sound
  • Interviews

• As we were leaving the Huron camp, it was awkward filming. I think that the Huron watching us was there to create tension - maybe we wouldn't get out. Nothing complicated.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Think
  • Leaving
  • Awkward

• Actors only have our bodies, voices, and the text. So I think actors need to have a fit and in-tune body. I was always very disciplined in wanting to have that. That's one of my favorite things - playing a role with a physical requirement.

  

  T. J. Thyne
  • Think
  • Body
  • Need

• Doing the press has become as much of a job as getting in front of the camera. You have to avoid burnout, avoid saying anything stupid, but still come across as yourself.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Job
  • Stupid
  • Yourself

• I look forward to strengthening the U.S.-U.N. partnership and working closely with Secretary of State Kerry towards our shared goals of peace, development, and human rights.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Peace
  • Goals
  • Forward

• I think that's still the most primal fear of all humans: to be eaten.

  

  Victor Salva
  • Think
  • Fear
  • Still

• When people today say 'racism,' they mean it's a nationalism they don't like. Racialism used to be a good thing, a looking-out for what was best for one group... Israel comes out of that 19th-century idea of nationalism. Many Arab states also have preferences. It's fundamentally unfair to decide that one is racism and the others aren't.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • People
  • Good
  • Today

• I think it's nice to work and then have success.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Work
  • Think
  • Success

• I think the first and principle objective is to repeal Obamacare before it does lasting, fundamental damage to our health care system, to our individual liberty, to the relationship each of us has with his or her doctor.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Relationship
  • Health
  • Doctor

• There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Women
  • Country
  • Children

• He who talks much cannot talk well.

  

  Carlo Goldoni
  • Talk
  • Well
  • Talks

• I like that I don't have to conform to the normal women-in-music-selling-sex-appeal thing.

  

  Yuna
  • Music
  • Women
  • Like

• This isn't working.

  

  Gabe Newell

• Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don't support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.

  

  James Altucher
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.

  

  W. S. Gilbert

• Now we were the very good malchicks, smiling good evensong to one and all, though these wrinkled old lighters started to get all shook, their veiny old rookers all trembling round their glasses, and making the suds spill on the table. 'Leave us be, lads,' said one of them, her face all mappy with being a thousand years old, 'we’re only poor old women.'

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Good
  • Women

• Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • True
  • Problem
  • Improvement

• Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me.

  

  Brooke Shields