John Glenn Quotes

I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested in living.

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• I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.

  

  K. Flay
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Important

• I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Money
  • Why
  • Job

• There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • House
  • Parents
  • Funny

• Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Career
  • You
  • Know

• I don't think about my fame very much.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Think
  • Fame
  • Very

• I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Love
  • Character
  • Find

• Politics is largely a matter of heart.

  

  R. A. Butler
  • Heart
  • Politics
  • Matter

• In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Believe
  • Food
  • Me

• To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Job
  • Security
  • Honest

• I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Man

• I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • House
  • Couple
  • Break

• Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Building
  • Differences
  • Out

• The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Death
  • Execution

• Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Only
  • Truly
  • Spontaneity

• We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Women
  • Family
  • Right

• I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I played football all four years. I started on Varsity my sophomore year, and senior year I was captain.

  

  Parker Young
  • School
  • High
  • Team

• When you strengthen women, you strengthen the world.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • World
  • Women
  • You

• Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

  

  Jack Paar
  • People
  • Fun
  • Saying

• I've always been a huge fan of thrillers like David Fincher's 'Se7en.' I am fascinated by the disturbing, dark underbelly of life. I find such films deeply engrossing. They delve deep into the human psyche, and that's a place worth exploring.

  

  Emraan Hashmi
  • Life
  • Dark
  • Deep

• I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Up
  • Important
  • Organization

• My sisters are very academically inclined so whenever they would fix me up, it would always be from someone in their world, people they would find attractive. When they came to the door in suits, it was over.

  

  Elizabeth Perkins
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home. At a really young age, I decided I was never going to feel helpless, I was never going to feel weak around a man, and I was never going to rely on anyone. Independence was a big, big thing for me.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Up
  • Men
  • Home

• Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.

  

  Jonathan Sacks
  • History
  • Age
  • Society

• I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested in living.

  

  John Glenn
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