John Ashcroft Quotes

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• TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.

  

  Gail Porter
  • World
  • Done
  • Job

• Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You
  • Universe
  • Decision

• If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • America
  • Immigration
  • Nation

• Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Family
  • Culture
  • Movies

• So, the international community are all the countries that are important: the United States definitely everywhere; the European Union because it is very important, and also, they do show a great deal of international responsibility; and then the local players.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Great
  • Important
  • Community

• Parts that are desexed, matronly – to just put me in a couple of scenes and have me be the older, you know, dead character, is not gonna fly with me.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Character
  • Know
  • Fly

• I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Better
  • Away
  • Pedestal

• Elite athletes learn entitlement. They believe they are entitled to have women serve their needs. It's part of being a man. It's the cultural construction of masculinity.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Man

• As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Money
  • Want
  • Saying

• I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Night
  • Best
  • Silence

• In the film industry, you are fictitious, just like the characters you play. It has a lot do with a perception about you, and not necessarily you. You are successful because people like that image of you on screen.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • People
  • Play
  • Perception

• Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.

  

  Tarja Halonen
  • Look
  • Rules
  • Own

• The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • World
  • Man
  • Dreams

• A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.

  

  Quintilian
  • Laugh
  • Too Much
  • Costs

• I'm one of the regulars. I play this doctor, Dr. Andrew Brown, going through some marriage problems.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • Marriage
  • Problems
  • Doctor

• The climax is the place where the opposing forces in your story finally clash. This is true whether those opposing forces are two armies or two values inside a character's soul.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Character
  • True
  • Soul

• Sometimes you have to understand your place.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • You
  • Sometimes
  • Understand

• My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Beginning
  • Never
  • Strange

• In school, I really felt like I didn't fit a type. I think everybody had a hard time putting me in a category. They all sort of realized, 'Hmm, you don't really look like a soprano. You're not really a character belter.'

  

  Jessie Mueller
  • Time
  • School
  • Character

• Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.

  

  Adam Savage
  • Work
  • Done
  • Control

• Every one of our films, when we start off, they suck... our job is to take it from something that sucks to something that doesn't suck. That's the hard part.

  

  Ed Catmull
  • Job

• Nowadays people don't use face powder; they say it dries the skin. But I makeup in the old-fashioned way.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • Makeup

• Age focuses you. You are much better concentrated. There's more time when you travel less, don't do book tours, avoid interviews or public appearances. You walk the dogs, fish, hunt, cook and write.

  

  Jim Harrison
  • Time
  • Book
  • Age

• There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism.

  

  John Ashcroft
  • Priority