Maxine Waters Quotes

I had to ask my grandchildren, 'What does it mean? I threw shade?'

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• Russell Brand is lovely, even though he's a weirdo.

  

  T. J. Miller
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• I am a citizen of the world.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • World
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• I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Life
  • Trying
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• Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.

  

  Jack Nicholson
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• I come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a hip area, but when I grew up there, the taxi drivers wouldn't even go over the bridge, it was so dangerous.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Up
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• I mean, I'm humble... to me, I'm just a regular cat from Oakland, California.

  

  Lance Gross
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• Yes, I think especially the Pentecostal churches, you know, that there's been such a growth in Pentecostalism. And it's a rejection of the much more dour and barren kind of Calvinist worship and also, the very formal Catholic forms of worship.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
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  • Growth
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• Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Nothing
  • Terrorism

• Isn't there such a thing as social liberation?' 'Of course there is,' said the Master. 'How would you describe it?' 'Liberation from the need to belong to the herd.'

  

  Anthony de Mello

• I was a shy and insecure kid and didn't know quite where I fit.

  

  Jason Alexander

• I just think overall a lot of it has to do with conditioning and players putting in the time and the effort in the off-season to keep themselves in condition for 12 months a year.

  

  Mark Messier
  • Time
  • Effort

• And, well of course, Count Basie, and I think all of the black bands of the late thirties and early forties, bands with real players. They had an influence on everybody, not just drummers.

  

  Buddy Rich
  • Real
  • Black

• The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people that make them unsafe.

  

  Frank Rizzo
  • People

• I'm a Republican and I'm gonna stay a Republican because they need somebody like me to stay in the Party and keep hammering away.

  

  Charles Evers
  • Party

• Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) cannot be medicated. It is treatable only through therapy. The problem is therapy is rarely sought by the afflicted. It cannot be cured.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Personality

• I have people in my family with bipolar disorder, and for years I've watched them struggle with the disorder's extreme moods and often devastating consequences.

  

  Jenna Blum
  • People
  • Family
  • Struggle

• I think the job of art and drama is to hold a mirror up to those things and say, 'What do you think about it?'

  

  Jessie Mueller
  • Up
  • Art
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• I was expecting someone dark to play 'Dexter' - someone like Johnny Depp.

  

  Jeff Lindsay
  • Dark

• For me, I'd rather be the inventive one, and if something doesn't work, I'll go back to the workshop, put it on the bench, and pound on it for awhile.

  

  Janet Fitch
  • Work

• You can't do it unless you can imagine it.

  

  George Lucas
  • Imagine
  • Unless

• At home, I have a wife, fortunately, and my children are all grown, and I have many grandchildren. I spend weekends with my grandchildren; I adore them.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Children
  • Home
  • Wife

• Cyberspace is colonising what we used to think of as the real world. I think that our grandchildren will probably regard the distinction we make between what we call the real world and what they think of as simply the world as the quaintest and most incomprehensible thing about us.

  

  William Gibson
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Real

• Sometimes I want to do something that's really funny and other times I read an indie script that is going to be made for nothing but I want to do it because I think that I can connect with something in the story.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • Funny

• I had to ask my grandchildren, 'What does it mean? I threw shade?'

  

  Maxine Waters
  • Grandchildren