Melissa Leo Quotes

The climate informs the character.

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• I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Long
  • Progress
  • Boy

• Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Rocket
  • Scrutiny
  • Abroad

• People are wired for lots of things. We're wired for novelty. We're wired for humor. We're wired for new pieces of information that surprise us in some way or add value to our lives. We're wired for fear.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Fear
  • Value

• I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Style
  • Innovation
  • Perfection

• I give two hoots about being typecast. It's not in my hands.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Hands
  • Two
  • Give

• I never miss a vote; I think that's the power of the people. A lot of people fought and died for us to have votes, for women to have votes in particular - your vote is your one weapon.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Women
  • Power

• Those who believe that health is a commodity, on par with cars or computers, fail to grasp the basic economic lesson that health is very vulnerable to exposure to the markets, not least due to the profound asymmetries in power between the providers and consumers.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Health

• In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Content
  • Japan

• Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Time
  • Long
  • Today

• I was rather foolish in saying that I did not like arithmetic and to learn figures when I did - I was not thinking quite what I was about. The sums can be done better, if I tried, than they are.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Learn

• For me, there's nothing sexier than a woman who can argue me into the ground and outsmart me... a woman who knows her own mind and isn't afraid to speak it.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Mind
  • Woman
  • Speak

• Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• I'm reading scripts just like everybody else. Tin cup in hand, knocking on doors, trying to get a job. It's tough. They don't make as many films these days, and there's a lot of guys that are fighting for jobs.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Trying
  • Job
  • Reading

• What kind of people would be able to rationalize better than other people? Better storytellers, right? Creative people, right? Because if you're creative, you find more ways to cheat and still yourself a story about why this is okay.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • People
  • Why
  • Yourself

• Sexiness comes with maturity.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Maturity

• I look after my skin quite a lot because in this job, it can get stressful. Pimples come out! I cleanse and moisturize, sometimes do face masks. I've also got a Clarisonic, which is good.

  

  Jess Glynne
  • Good
  • Job

• Yoga has helped me to see death as more of a gift than a loss, and that has been my experience so far.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Experience
  • Death
  • Yoga

• I want to keep playing good golf.

  

  Bubba Watson
  • Good
  • Golf

• Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

  

  Don Marquis
  • People
  • World

• An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.

  

  Francois Truffaut
  • Great
  • Moving
  • Animal

• My favorite classic novel may be 'The Invisible Man.' It's smart and genuinely funny. Otherwise, my favorite character is probably Frankenstein's Monster/Frankenstein the Monster.

  

  Adam Rex
  • May
  • Character
  • Funny

• People think being remembered most for one character is a negative thing, but I don't. I never expected to be remembered for anything!

  

  Mark Hamill
  • People
  • Character

• The climate informs the character.

  

  Melissa Leo
  • Character
  • Climate