Bruce Babbitt Quotes

I wouldn't miss this opportunity for anything. For the chance to work on these conservation issues, to serve my country, to work for this president, I'd do it all over again, every single minute.

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• I'm a black woman who loves hair. I enjoy changing my hair, having fun with it - just hair! I go from braids, to weaves, to wigs, to natural hair.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Fun
  • Black
  • Woman

• Let a hundred flowers bloom.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Flowers
  • Hundred
  • Bloom

• I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Writing
  • Mystery
  • Half

• Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Myself

• Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Want
  • Me
  • Change

• If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Help
  • You
  • Guidance

• I never was a very good singer.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Good
  • Never
  • Singer

• I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • World
  • Poetry

• Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Important

• Spending money is much more difficult than making money.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Money
  • More
  • Making Money

• My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Mom
  • Doing
  • Seattle

• Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Writing
  • Funny
  • Humor

• People think that I can just walk into a room and get a job, but of the 200 interviews and auditions I go through a year, I may get three yeses. I just have to use my sense of humour to get me through.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • People
  • May
  • Job

• Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Evidence
  • Absence

• I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Live
  • Without
  • Activity

• I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.

  

  Ed Helms
  • People
  • Character
  • Guy

• I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Think
  • Me
  • Sometimes

• Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Think
  • See
  • Hear

• Harper Lee's novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird' became iconic almost immediately after appearing in 1960: best-seller status; the Pulitzer Prize the next year; a classic movie soon after, with Gregory Peck in an Academy Award-winning role.

  

  Kevin Young
  • Movie
  • Winning

• To win a major tournament you have to face the top teams at some point, but if you avoid those at the beginning then you can win games and build confidence. I think the key is just to get off to a good start.

  

  Jermain Defoe
  • Good
  • Beginning
  • Confidence

• We all say that we want to repeal Obamacare, and we would all love a clean, full repeal. But the truth is, sometimes it's kind of like making sausage. You have to do it one step at a time. You've got to approach it from the standpoint that you make substantial gains today, and then the next opportunity, you make more.

  

  John Fleming
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Today

• At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices.

  

  David Guterson
  • Freedom

• You can't allow someone's hate to dictate your life.

  

  Normani Kordei Hamilton Fifth Harmony
  • Life
  • Hate
  • Dictate

• I wouldn't miss this opportunity for anything. For the chance to work on these conservation issues, to serve my country, to work for this president, I'd do it all over again, every single minute.

  

  Bruce Babbitt
  • Work
  • Country
  • Opportunity