Joan Collins Quotes

I consider you as old as you look and feel. And in that case I feel - I feel I'm about 39, like Jack Benny.

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• I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Boy
  • Social
  • Novel

• I've always thought George Carlin was brilliant.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Brilliant

• I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Time
  • First
  • Sunday

• In the Bronx, you have the southern Italians; in Queens, the Greeks, Koreans and Chinese; in Brooklyn, the Jewish community; and in Harlem, the Hispanics - all with their own markets.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • You
  • Community
  • Chinese

• It's very hard for me to go to the movies because I know all the tricks, and I know everybody. I don't watch many at all. And the ones I do watch are generally much older films.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Know
  • Movies
  • Hard

• I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Never
  • Emotional
  • Forgotten

• When you do good work, people will notice you.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.

  

  Barack Obama
  • American
  • Care
  • Insurance

• A chief of station is the head of all intelligence operations in any given country.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Country
  • Intelligence
  • Head

• For me, the kitchen is the most special room in the house. It's a place for adventure - not drudgery, but discovery, sharing and showing off with friends, trying new ideas.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Trying
  • Friends
  • House

• There's no real side to be on because I think it was a mess.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Real
  • Think
  • Mess

• But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • History
  • Individual
  • Changes

• It so happens, in Malaysia, the people who are in a way not doing as well constitute the majority of the people - the Bumiputeras.

  

  Najib Razak
  • People
  • Way
  • Doing

• We can know that the Christian God cannot exist. If he is all-powerful and all-good, as Christians maintain, there would not have been, for instance, the Holocaust. This is an inherent self-contradiction. So if Christians insist on having a God, they can do so, but if they have any respect for logic they'll have to redefine who he is.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Good
  • God
  • Respect

• When you see period films, it tends to often be with older actors.

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • You
  • Period
  • See

• If you have 'too big to fail' for cities or for states, and they believe they'll be bailed out, they'll continue to make unwise decisions.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Believe
  • You
  • Decisions

• it is absurd … to hope that maybe another Newton may some day arise, to make intelligible to us even the genesis of but a blade of grass ('Dialectic of Teleological Judgment' §75)

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • May
  • Hope

• Fear of emotional contact with men out of fear of being a sexual suspect makes boys, ironically, even more powerless before girls. Homophobia is like telling the United States it will be a sissy nation if it doesn’t get all its oil from OPEC.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Emotional

• How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.

  

  Arna Bontemps

• Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpaste?

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • God
  • Question

• I totally believe in magic. Because my life, I think, has been very magic, and magical things have come true for me time after time after time.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Magic
  • Believe In
  • Time After Time

• I was the jokester, the one who made the family laugh.

  

  Nicole Beharie
  • Family
  • Laugh
  • Jokester

• So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades.

  

  John Olver
  • America
  • War

• I consider you as old as you look and feel. And in that case I feel - I feel I'm about 39, like Jack Benny.

  

  Joan Collins