Jodie Foster Quotes

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

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• I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Children
  • Small
  • Dad

• In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Black
  • Intellectual
  • Clear

• Make that extra effort for every relationship. Whether it's with your parents, your children, your husband or your friends. It makes a difference to them. I try to give my kids a lot of solo time where I play with them, talk to them, listen to them. Similarly, you give time for your workout. You slot a time for it, no matter what.

  

  Kajol
  • Time
  • Children
  • Kids

• Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Imagination
  • Never
  • Carry

• I have changed so much as an actor over the years.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Years
  • Actor
  • Over

• Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Bad
  • Laws
  • Tyranny

• The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Work
  • Forever
  • Productivity

• One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • You
  • Going
  • Places

• I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'

  

  Frances McDormand
  • She
  • Pretty
  • Thought

• My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Birthday

• I love books.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Love
  • Books
  • I Love

• You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Happy
  • Team
  • Day

• Republicans have never been good at public relations.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Good
  • Never
  • Been

• He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Call
  • Falls
  • Niagara

• I got my first Charvet knit tie when I was 15. I actually stole it from my father. I love them because you can wear them day to night. They're French and preppy and have been around since the 1800s.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Love
  • Father
  • Night

• Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development and triumph of the manufacturers and bankers of the industrial North, East and West over the slave-holder of the South.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Development
  • Class
  • West

• I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Great
  • Grandfather
  • Valley

• I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Trust

• I think the Beatles is one band that, if I'm working on a song arrangement or if I have some idea for a song, and there's a little bit of a Beatles quality to it, I never avoid that. I always will steer into it.

  

  Chris Cornell Soundgarden
  • Song
  • Band
  • Quality

• Ladies and Gentleman, I'm afraid I've got some BAD NEWS.

  

  Wade Barrett
  • Bad
  • News
  • Gentleman

• The other work we started in 1992, it is called Over the River, Project for the Arkansas River in the state of Colorado, we haven't got the permit yet. And, we are working at both of those, trying to get the permit. Therefore, we do not know which one will be realized next.

  

  Christo
  • Work
  • Trying
  • River

• Our enemy, and the enemy of all America, is the monopolistic government of the United States of America.

  

  Che Guevara
  • America
  • Enemy

• Who said it could not be done? And tell me what great victories does he have to his credit which qualifies him to judge what can and can't be accomplished.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Great
  • Done
  • Judge

• I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • People
  • Responsibility