Meredith Baxter Quotes

I am a lesbian, and it was a later in life recognition of that fact.

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• There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.

  

  Hal Price
  • Work
  • Done
  • History

• There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • May
  • Distance

• I grew up playing hockey and some football, and I always think about the first time you walk into the locker room on a new team. The cliques are looking at you funny, and you make one friend, but then they're trying to stab you in the back.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• Ultimately, our goal was to be a band and be recognized for our songs and making records. And I think that has been the case.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Think
  • Band
  • Goal

• I was shot at for being a Tamil in Sri Lanka, and then, everyone was calling me a Paki in London, and I'm not even Pakistani.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Everyone
  • London
  • Calling

• I hope telling the story of how I went from being a single mom to serving in the Texas State Senate to running for governor will remind others that with the right leadership in government, where you start has nothing to do with how far you go.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Hope
  • Running
  • Single

• I have such pride in furthering the American musical and using it as a way to tell story.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • American
  • Pride
  • Story

• When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • Art
  • Beauty
  • Walls

• Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Good
  • Real
  • True

• I've got lots of friends who are musicians, so if they ask me to do things, I'll go and do it for a laugh. I don't want to be a pop star or anything like that.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Friends
  • Star
  • Laugh

• I watched the Bush administration overreact to the Clinton administration, who believed they did too much nation building, sustaining other countries, and that's why we never put the commitment on Afghanistan and Iraq that should have been in there under their policy leadership.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Why
  • Leadership
  • Commitment

• When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Breakfast
  • Allowed
  • Hyper

• There is no religion higher than truth.

  

  Helena Blavatsky
  • Truth

• I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Drug
  • Realizing
  • Headache

• Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.

  

  Alan Alda
  • People
  • Work
  • Experience

• Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.

  

  Len Wein
  • Time
  • God
  • Stories

• Taking care of your body, no matter what your age, is an investment.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Age
  • Care
  • Body

• I'm still waiting for him to rock the white jacket with the rolled-up sleeves. I think it'll happen.

  

  Don Johnson
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Waiting

• Everyone knew that democracy - direct rule by all the people - required such spartan, soul-denying virtue on the part of all the people that it was likely to survive only where poverty made upright behavior necessary for the perpetuation of the race.

  

  Bernard Bailyn
  • Democracy
  • Poverty
  • Rule

• Paul believed, in fact, that Jesus had gone through death and out the other side. Jesus had gone into a new mode of physicality, for which there was no precedent and of which there was, as yet, no other example.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Death
  • Jesus
  • Facts

• As artists, we thrive when we can express our comfort and our discomfort. If a certain scene is really challenging for us, if we're in an environment where we feel safe, we're able to do our work.

  

  Aja Naomi King
  • Work
  • Environment

• I am a lesbian, and it was a later in life recognition of that fact.

  

  Meredith Baxter
  • Facts
  • Recognition
  • Later