Geena Davis Quotes

So many other countries have had female leaders, in fact the U.S. ranks 61st in female representation in government and I think it is startling and sign of a change that needs to be made.

Geena Davis

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• I don't get bothered by fans.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Fans
  • Get
  • Bothered

• I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Speak
  • Italian
  • Spanish

• As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Political
  • Focus
  • Evil

• It's funny because everyone says, 'Oh you're reclusive; you don't do social media,' but it's not about being reclusive. I like direct contact, and I like contact that's purposeful.

  

  Banks
  • Funny
  • Social Media
  • Contact

• In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Done
  • Just
  • Collective

• Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Want
  • You
  • Happiness

• I love the folk-rock of the Seventies and the pop of the Eighties.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Rock
  • Pop
  • Seventies

• I'm a very spontaneous person. If someone aggravates me, I'm going to go after them. I wake up every morning, and I say, 'What bad guys should I go after today?'

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Today

• Like I went out to a predominantly black club last night and nobody said anything and I was wishing somebody would so that someone would dance with me.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Night
  • Me
  • Dance

• It's better to waste money than time. You can always get more money.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Time
  • Money
  • Better

• Herbert Hoover failed through no fault of his own. The Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression were beyond his control, and every remedy he tried failed adequately to work.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Work
  • Great
  • Control

• Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Teacher
  • Hell
  • Tragedy

• The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Day
  • Strange
  • Once

• I'm from Pennsylvania, so I was in New York a lot and my brother lives in New York.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Brother
  • New
  • New York

• The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• The process of unleashing worms on organic waste such as food scraps and grass clippings is known as 'vermicomposting.' Amateur horticulturists and hippies have been doing it on a small scale for decades.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Small
  • Food
  • Doing

• I hear it all the time in the street: 'It's the crisp bloke.'

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Time
  • Hear
  • Street

• The biggest risk with a series that goes on this long is that you'll get bored with the character.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Long
  • Character
  • Risk

• I thought, 'you're on tour leading a crazy life right now, but you've just asked me to make an album and I'm going to hold you to that'. He was really encouraging, which is nice because I doubt myself often.

  

  Isobel Campbell Belle and Sebastian
  • Crazy
  • Doubt
  • Album

• When you have a true ambition for something, you will not give up hope. Giving up hope is a sign that you are lacking ambition to achieve that goal!

  

  Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler
  • Hope
  • Goal
  • Ambition

• I only wish to be gone. Therefore, I AM.

  

  Carol Plum-Ucci
  • Wish
  • Gone

• Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Important
  • Funny
  • Best

• Movie acting may not have a certain kind of glory as true art, but it is damn hard work.

  

  William Franklin Beedle Jr.
  • Kind
  • Acting
  • Certain

• So many other countries have had female leaders, in fact the U.S. ranks 61st in female representation in government and I think it is startling and sign of a change that needs to be made.

  

  Geena Davis