Gene Tierney Quotes

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

Gene Tierney

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• The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • People
  • Live
  • Standards

• He who avoids complaint invites happiness.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Happiness
  • He
  • Complaint

• I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

  

  Katharine Anthony
  • Truth
  • History
  • Satisfaction

• Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environments.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Nature
  • Alone
  • Unity

• I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.

  

  Barbara Hershey
  • People
  • Afraid
  • Aging

• 'Entity' is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, but it's not like a dance about Einstein where I'm trying to convert his ideas into movement and communicate that to an audience.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • Trying
  • May
  • Nature

• Well, my first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Up
  • Home
  • Mother

• When you're as chaotic as I am, you need a very firm structure in your life.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Life
  • Need
  • Structure

• My party is committed to a federation.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Party
  • Committed
  • Federation

• I think that people always just assumed that I was a liberal because I came from Southeast Seattle.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • Think
  • Always

• Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• When I'm not in front of the camera, I'm just like any other normal person. I'm a student. I eat when I'm stressed.

  

  Park Bo-gum
  • Like
  • Just
  • Camera

• I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Records
  • Hits
  • Legendary

• Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not just to explore - but to practice.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Freedom
  • Myself
  • Practice

• Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Family
  • Fear
  • Trust

• With the Internet and social media being a huge part of today's culture, I think it's super important to promote staying smart online.

  

  G. Hannelius
  • Important
  • Today
  • Culture

• Virgin America flyers tend to be more likely to be using a mobile device and tapping social networks - even at 35,000 feet.

  

  Sam Altman
  • America
  • Social
  • Feet

• Fantasy novels, I don't really gravitate to that part of the bookstore.

  

  Peter Dinklage

• I think it's really good that you have great competition among news networks, and for that matter all the networks in general. It's bringing more and more people in to watching the news.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• I do understand what it is to not want to commit to someone, knowing that might bring pain or commit to a life that has to do with being responsible to people other than myself. These things, I think, are normal things.

  

  Philip Seymour Hoffman
  • People
  • Life
  • Pain

• The strength I'm looking for isn't the type where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want us the kind of strength to be able to absorb that kind of power, to stand up to it.The strength to quietly endure things - unfairness, misfortunes, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Power
  • Mistakes
  • Absorb

• I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.

  

  Richard Serra
  • People
  • Interested
  • Making

• It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.

  

  Gene Tierney