Erik Estrada Quotes

Top Model' is pretty good, because it gives these girls an opportunity to chase their passion and possibly get a contract.

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• I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • School
  • Experience
  • War

• Some smashes have been timed at more than 250 mph, so you get less than a second to react. People who see a professional badminton match up close are always shocked at the speed.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • People
  • Up
  • Professional

• Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Time
  • Money
  • Want

• Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • People
  • Power
  • America

• Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Fall
  • Intellectual
  • Continue

• Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • Love
  • Identity

• For Gore 2000, I was a formal campaign adviser: contrary to RNC mythology, my brief was not 'wardrobe,' but rather policy on women's issues, and messaging. I was also married to a Clinton speechwriter, and observed the message decision-making process from the perspective of a spouse.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Women
  • Decision
  • Perspective

• Mentorship is really important. I really like to talk to people who have been in the music industry much longer than me about artists' block, things I'm struggling with, or the music business. It's really important for artists to have a community. Sometimes you can feel quite isolated.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• There should be no censorship of mail.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Should
  • Censorship
  • Mail

• I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Great
  • Like
  • Artist

• We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Know
  • Reading
  • Exercise

• Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • War
  • Constitution
  • Congress

• Often when you are starting out in comedy, you will find that people will laugh at the things you didn't think were funny. It's important to pay attention also to what people are laughing at when you are just talking in regular conversation. Often that is when you are truly being yourself.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • People
  • Important
  • Funny

• It's such a stressful environment, I find, being an actor, being put in the chair and 'Touch this, that, and the other,' it's too much for me. I find it hard to tolerate that sort of stuff. If you're not enjoying it, don't do it. You're wasting everyone's time.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Time
  • Me
  • Environment

• I randomly went to a casting session in my hometown in North Carolina, and the casting director introduced me to my manager. I really lucked into it!

  

  Maddie Hasson
  • Director
  • Manager
  • Hometown

• It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• I am just one of the overwhelming majority of Americans who is responsible and hard-working and at one point in their life benefited greatly from government programs such as student loans, Medicare, and Social Security.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Government
  • Responsible
  • Americans

• AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to you. It can happen to you and it's deadly serious.

  

  Ice T
  • Think
  • Kind
  • Serious

• Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Time
  • Tears
  • Faces

• If (environmentalists) want to continue to beat those drums to solicit money from concerned soccer moms, they can do that. The reality on the ground is things are better as a result of Gale Norton's tenure.

  

  Christopher West
  • Reality
  • Soccer
  • Concerned

• A man is very revealed by his wife, just as a woman is revealed by her husband. People never marry beneath or above themselves, I assure you.

  

  Carol Grace
  • Man
  • Wife
  • Woman

• Healing opportunities can be disguised as people who really piss you off. Pay attention because they could be your greatest teachers.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Attention

• I don't want to be a great chief executive without being a great mum and a great wife.

  

  Angela Ahrendts
  • Great
  • Wife

• Top Model' is pretty good, because it gives these girls an opportunity to chase their passion and possibly get a contract.

  

  Erik Estrada
  • Opportunity
  • Model
  • Contracts