Meg Ryan Quotes

I wouldn't have thought of myself as a person who could guide anybody and then it turned out that I can.

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• Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Up
  • Important
  • Worry

• The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• We were descended from royalty.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Royalty
  • Were
  • Descended

• I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Fashion
  • Loved
  • Advertising

• We don't grow older, we grow riper.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Grow
  • Older

• I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • People
  • Love
  • Faith

• I take four planes a week, honestly. You know, I am for intelligence screening.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Week
  • Intelligence
  • Planes

• Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Important
  • Live
  • May

• We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Know
  • Cells
  • Genes

• But for the first time, we haven't made a huge leap forward in sound from our last album. Fans who own Kid A should be able to get their heads around it.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Time
  • Sound
  • Kid

• A democracy thrives on diversity. Tyranny oppresses it.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Democracy
  • Diversity

• I always say, as an actress, I get to portray the human condition, but as an activist, I get to change the human condition.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Change
  • Always
  • Human

• Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.

  

  Edmund White
  • Me
  • Alone
  • Problem

• When I was just starting out, I had two choices: I could be the beautiful girl on the main man's arm as decoration, or I would have to do a little independent movie to get any depth in the female character.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Beautiful

• If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • See
  • Week

• Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • People
  • Government
  • Intelligence

• I see far stronger and more charismatic personalities strolling around Philadelphia's neighborhoods than are being featured in most of today's bland daytime soaps.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Today
  • See
  • Stronger

• This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Time
  • Good
  • God

• Wars are fought to gain a certain objective. War itself is not the objective; victory is not the objective; you fight to remove the obstruction that comes in the way of your objective. If you let victory become the end in itself then you've gone astray and forgotten what you were originally fighting about.

  

  Jawaharlal Nehru
  • War
  • Fighting
  • Victory

• My mother wanted me to be friends only with children she considered socially suitable.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • Children
  • She
  • Friends

• When Fidel Castro is gone, there will be hope for Cuba. There will be opportunity for Cuba.

  

  Carlos Curbelo
  • Opportunity
  • Cuba
  • Castro

• Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.

  

  George McGovern
  • Society
  • Tears

• I wouldn't have thought of myself as a person who could guide anybody and then it turned out that I can.

  

  Meg Ryan