Butch Trucks Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
-
I am not an American; I am the American.
-
When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
-
Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
-
All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
-
An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
-
Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
-
But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
-
He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
-
Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
-
I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
-
You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
-
I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are many haredim who think like me and would be glad to discover that someone is fighting the radical functionaries and rabbis who embitter their lives.
-
A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
-
As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
-
It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.
-
OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!
-
When I run - as you see from my record - I run to win.
-
Common decency is a core part of who people are.
-
I can smell bacon sizzling or chicken roasting and appreciate the aroma, but I don't want to eat it.
-
Whatever your situation might be, set your mind to whatever you want to do and put a good attitude in it, and I believe that you can succeed. You are not going to get anywhere just sitting on your butt and moping around.
-
The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people.
-
I get the headlines for being slick and different things like that - which is part of my game - but it's just amazing to me that a lot of times, the people don't see the other things that go on in that ring. But a lot of times, when my opponents figure it out, the fight is over. It's too late.
-
I like some things other people don't like, and they like stuff I don't like.
