George Clooney Quotes

I've been left for someone...all those things...It was sometimes a surprise, and sometimes you saw t coming. The most painful was when I kept trying to get someone back. But we all make dumb mistakes.

George Clooney

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• I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.

  

  Wale
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Parents

• Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Facebook
  • Web
  • Applications

• Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Life
  • Work
  • You

• Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Music
  • Generation
  • Dawn

• More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political gain. My first response is that if you cannot trust a party on the value of defending human life, how can you trust it on issues like marginal tax rates?

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Life
  • Political
  • Party

• Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.

  

  Dan Gertler
  • Want
  • Dreams
  • Invest

• I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Up
  • America
  • Think

• Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

  

  Haim Ginott
  • Parents
  • Generation
  • Talk

• My first year of college was tough. I thought that just being an athlete I could get by. I thought I was okay until I got kicked out, which happened twice.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • College
  • Thought
  • Athlete

• I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• Growing up eating fruits and vegetables fresh from our farm added a lot to the way I taste and look at food today, and I wanted the same for my kids and other kids.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Today

• In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Simple

• With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that's sold, somebody's making a dime.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Money
  • True
  • Day

• My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Father
  • Fan
  • Journalist

• We don't need a lot of initiatives for women in film; what we need is money.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Women
  • Money
  • Need

• You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Success
  • You
  • Greatness

• What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Life
  • May
  • Culture

• I think the secret is really observation. Well, if you observe what's going on and try to figure out how people are thinking, I think you can always write something that people will understand.

  

  Sam Cooke
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Observation

• Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but it's like, yeah, you are for now, but you've gotta work so that you're remembered further, and that's what I'm trying to do.

  

  Sam Smith
  • World
  • Work
  • Trying

• It is mind-boggling to me that there are so few movies about female friendship, considering women make up half the movie-going population.

  

  Ari Graynor
  • Up
  • Women
  • Mind

• Delight, Delight, Delight...in our youth.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Youth
  • Delight

• When it's between the covers of a book, content is perceived to have literary substance - or more so that it might otherwise.

  

  David Shields
  • Book

• The Scripture says that He, the Lord, came walking in the Temple, with His train; I do not know who they were, unless His wives and children; but at any rate they filled the Temple, and how many there were who could not get into the Temple I cannot say. This is the account given by Isaiah, whether he told the truth or not I leave every body to judge for himself.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Lord
  • Scripture
  • Temple

• I've been left for someone...all those things...It was sometimes a surprise, and sometimes you saw t coming. The most painful was when I kept trying to get someone back. But we all make dumb mistakes.

  

  George Clooney
  • Trying
  • Sometimes
  • Mistake