Gene Tierney Quotes

I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.

Gene Tierney

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• As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Remember
  • Together
  • Dad

• I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Like
  • Thing
  • Favorite

• There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment and real worth. But to have a name among the weak and the wicked is shame and reproach.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Good
  • Men
  • Real

• My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.

  

  A. J. Buckley
  • Parents
  • Down
  • Los Angeles

• There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Long
  • Me
  • Confidence

• You'll hear 'Hippie,' or, 'Get a haircut.' I like it. I think it's funny because they think we've never heard that before. So, like, good one.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Good
  • Think
  • Funny

• One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you've got somebody who's raring to go and you can smell it and feel it, give 'em that shot.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Confidence
  • Smell

• When I hear from people who are struggling to put food on the table, I understand because I've been there.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • People
  • Food
  • Understand

• It is an act of evil to accept the state of evil as either inevitable or final.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Evil

• As a human being it is just my nature to enjoy and share philosophy. I do this in the same way that some birds are eagles and some doves, some flowers lilies and some roses.

  

  Alan Watts
  • Nature

• I don't think I've ever played the Olympia before, but I'm not totally sure.

  

  Bryan Ferry Roxy Music

• If a thousand citizens were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Violence
  • Revolution
  • Innocent

• There was a whole slew of 'Cops and Robbersons,' just films that didn't measure up, that didn't stand for anything comedically. They were purely for a paycheck.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Up

• If I am going to do something outside of Lady Antebellum, it's got to make a statement. Otherwise, why do it?

  

  Charles Kelley Lady Antebellum
  • Why

• Every time I think of Doug Wilson, I think 'pathetic.' When it comes between something for himself or something for righteousness, he'll choose himself.

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • Time

• I look fashionable every day. And the pendulum swings between more, or less, edgy when I'm with bankers.

  

  Karen Katz
  • Edgy

• I'd love to give my music to someone who really likes to wow the crowd. I feel like half the time I just want to hide in the dressing room!

  

  Nellie McKay
  • Time
  • Music

• There will always be excuses, arguments, and questions of timing when moving on difficult and controversial issues.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Moving
  • Questions
  • Excuses

• Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Today
  • Best
  • Present

• 'Part of the test,' said Sillain, 'is seeing how well you obey orders.''Then I fail,' said John Paul.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• Every established order tends to produce (to very different degrees with different means) the naturalization of its own arbitrariness.

  

  Pierre Bourdieu
  • Different

• To me, Ann Romney sounds like a better candidate than her husband. She put her MS into remission through horseback riding, alternative therapies, and a healthy diet. She knows how to pace herself. She has a sense of humor and an innate honesty, and her hair moves in the wind. Maybe she should run.

  

  Patti Davis
  • She
  • Hair
  • Husband

• I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.

  

  Gene Tierney
  • Excuses