Gene Hackman Quotes

Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.

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• Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Work
  • Discipline
  • Commitment

• I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Time
  • Like
  • Dance

• I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and energy. And she deserves to be treated like a princess because that's how you should treat your girls. And if I can't give them that time and that devotion because of my dedication to football, then I don't feel like I should almost waste their time.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Like

• People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • First
  • Meeting

• In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Far
  • Void
  • Fill

• I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Doing
  • Looking
  • Roots

• Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Power
  • America

• Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Cancer
  • Jealousy
  • Mental

• Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.

  

  Dan Gertler
  • Feel
  • Speak
  • Performance

• The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Will
  • Nation
  • Forgotten

• My whole life is a theater piece.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Theater
  • Life Is A

• Issues to do with disability, mental health and not being neurotypical often affect many genuine teenagers but are rarely reflected in the fiction they read.

  

  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  • Health
  • Mental Health

• Let's face it, I only practice yoga because the classes are always packed with beautiful women.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Practice

• But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Will
  • Happen
  • Technological

• 'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.

  

  B. B. King
  • Great
  • She
  • Song

• I've always been attracted to action stuff.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Action
  • Always
  • Attracted

• I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Career
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• When I'm wearing too-high heels and swaying my hips, I do that Sharon Stone kind of thing - she has the sexiest walk, a New York cool thing that throws you back.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • She
  • High
  • Cool

• I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can't stick to don't do you any good. Some people say, 'Just eat half of what's on your plate,' but I can't do that!

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Good
  • People Say

• Obviously, you're trying to peel through 20 centuries of theology, speculations, church doctrine and storytelling. I'm trying to get back to the absolute basic story of who was Jesus, what did he say, what was he teaching, and what did he do.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Trying
  • Church
  • Jesus

• Hollywood has lost an enormous amount of quality.

  

  Claire Trevor
  • Lost
  • Quality

• I tried the second season of 'American Horror Story,' and it scared me horribly. I guess I prefer my own imagination to a realized visual.

  

  Jewell Parker Rhodes
  • American
  • Imagination

• Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors.

  

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