Jim Lehrer Quotes

I wanted to be a bus driver when I was a kid. I look at bus driving through the eyes of a little boy. I see it as glamorous.

Jim Lehrer

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• Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • American
  • English
  • Literature

• At Ozon, salaries are evaluated every year based on market benchmarks which are gender neutral.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Year
  • Market
  • Gender

• I really don't know life without wrestling.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Know
  • Wrestling

• After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Win
  • Celebrate
  • Ice

• You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • People
  • Home
  • Movies

• We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Friends
  • Young
  • Face

• The hijab is a symbol that we wear on our heads, but I want people to know that it is my choice. I'm doing it because I want to do it. I wanted people to see that you could still be really cute and modest at the same time.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Time
  • Same

• Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We're very different. I wouldn't make that comparison at all, and I don't mean to disrespect Madonna: she's a nice lady, and she's had a fantastic, huge career - biggest pop star of all time.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Time
  • Different
  • Career

• I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • Age
  • Sons
  • Illegitimate

• It's interesting – in 'Fail Safe,' as well, they didn't back off. We were raised with kind of this spectrum of that Armageddon and lived under it, so those were probably the films. 'Fail Safe' sort of haunted me.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Lived

• Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • May
  • Words

• A woman's health is her capital.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Health
  • Woman
  • Capital

• My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. I'd go wherever I was needed! My second job was at Dairy Queen. I stayed in the fast food royalty.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Job
  • Food
  • King

• What I love about Tadashi is that he isn't a designer that designs only for a double-zero. He designs for double-Ds, you know? Women of all shapes and sizes can wear him.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Know
  • Designer

• As an actor, I'm in such a privileged position because my work is job by job. If something doesn't fit in with family life, there's more flexibility.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!

  

  Fay Wray
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • School
  • She
  • Friends

• I feel really proud of my work on 'Sullivan & Son.' It's a really different character for me. I was excited to play this really tough, sweet smart, quirky girl because that's who I am at my core, but that's never who I was playing. The show is like my pride and joy.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Work
  • Different
  • Character

• Jesus accepted the plenary [i.e., complete, extending to all its parts] inspiration of the Bible; when first approached by the devil to turn stones into bread, our Lord replied that man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God (Matt. 4:4 quoting Deut. 8:3). He did not say, "some words" but "every word." If Scripture is breathed out from God (2 Tim. 3:16), then Scripture must be included in what sustains man, not only parts of Scripture but all of it.

  

  Charles Caldwell Ryrie
  • Men
  • Jesus
  • Inspiration

• I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life.

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • Life
  • Women
  • Bad

• Super Cruise will follow the lanes of the road, follow the speed you set, and you can be hands-off driving on an expressway.

  

  Mary Barra
  • Road
  • Driving

• The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning.

  

  Brian Ferneyhough
  • Past
  • Period

• The attainment of the present status of Thailand has to depend on the ability or the actions of all the inhabitants of the country.

  

  Bhumibol Adulyadej
  • Country
  • Present

• I wanted to be a bus driver when I was a kid. I look at bus driving through the eyes of a little boy. I see it as glamorous.

  

  Jim Lehrer
  • Eyes
  • Boy
  • Driving