Jim Lehrer Quotes

Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.

Jim Lehrer

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• I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.

  

  Fan Bingbing
  • Important
  • Beautiful
  • Beauty

• All of life is a foreign country.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Life
  • Country
  • Life Is A

• To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Happiness
  • Child
  • Find

• I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Spiritual
  • Positive
  • Driven

• I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Want
  • Child

• I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.

  

  Eddie Bracken
  • Trouble
  • Hollywood
  • Awful

• I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.

  

  Dan Brown
  • You
  • Find
  • Architecture

• All I can do is try to create the best show possible, and I feel we've truly done that.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Done
  • Best
  • Try

• We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Future
  • Architecture

• I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Good
  • Children
  • Kids

• When I was little, I didn't smile much. Don't get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn't stand the space, dead center, in between my teeth. Yeah, I could whistle through it, but so what? That didn't win me many points on the playground in Medfield, Massachusetts.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Happy
  • Space
  • Win

• We all need some TLC and to pat ourselves on the back from time to time.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Time
  • Need
  • Back

• Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Community
  • Action
  • Principle

• I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.

  

  Orson Welles
  • People
  • Mind
  • Remember

• In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Action
  • Positive
  • Vision

• We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Home
  • War
  • New

• Art is something special because it can come up with a way of approaching the truth that is a little to the side.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Up
  • Art
  • Truth

• It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Darkness
  • Unknown
  • Loss

• If President Obama wants to keep calling for protests, then that will be his legacy, one of division, rich versus poor, old versus young, black versus white, always dividing. That's what you get under President Obama.

  

  Sean Hannity
  • President
  • Rich
  • Poor

• Writers generally get into writing because they want to write, not because they want to be independent publishers, and you can't really fault someone for saying, 'What I'm doing right now works, so there's no reason to change it.'

  

  Jennifer Armintrout
  • Writing
  • Independent

• There are two things that Jack Bauer never does. Show mercy, and go to the bathroom.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Show
  • Mercy
  • Bathroom

• I feel like it's hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.

  

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

• There is no hell. There is only France.

  

  Frank Zappa

• Most of the stories I have covered in 45 years have been gray stories.

  

  Jim Lehrer