Erin Cummings Quotes

I can read in any book and newspaper about the city of Detroit, but I want to hear what the people in Detroit have to say about Detroit. My best education is actually talking to people.

Erin Cummings

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• I said if I have a No. 1, I'll do a naked photo shoot! I'm not sure a lot of people would like to see that, but it was more to the fans, really. Every gig I do, they try to get me to take my clothes off, so it's a promise to them - if I get a No. 1, I'll happily do a naked shoot.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Me
  • Promise

• I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.

  

  Jack Lew
  • People
  • World
  • Career

• Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Think
  • Culture
  • Language

• I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • People
  • Politics
  • Start

• Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Better
  • Morality

• Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Home
  • Easy
  • Coffee

• The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Change
  • Acceptance
  • Step

• My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Life
  • Book
  • Like

• I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Good
  • Mother
  • Interested

• No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Music
  • Feeling
  • Come

• So I have four daughters, about ten granddaughters, and five grandsons.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Four
  • Five
  • Daughters

• Joining the Bipartisan Policy Center is a natural extension of my efforts to achieve results throughout my tenure in Congress, and it provides an ideal means for developing strategies that can garner the broad support necessary to achieve real solutions to the challenges confronting our nation.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Real
  • Support
  • Challenges

• I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • People
  • Young
  • Role Model

• I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • City
  • Sex
  • Story

• A man who sells his conscience for his interest will sell it for his pleasure. A man who will betray his country will betray his friend.

  

  Maria Edgeworth
  • Country
  • Friend

• When I'm not working, I would kill to have some sort of creative outlet other than, say, a coloring book. And when I'm working, I want to do all those things I was griping about - you know, make a turkey-and-cheese sandwich, put it in a zip-top bag, and stick it in a lunch box right now!

  

  Angie Harmon
  • Book

• Of the two 'True Grits,' the John Wayne version one is better.

  

  Caroline Lawrence
  • True

• After 'Boy Meets World' ended, I didn't know if I was going to be lucky enough to work on a show with as many talented people and feel such a family comradery.

  

  Danielle Fishel
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when I'm contemplating a chair. They are different... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object.

  

  Meg Tilly
  • Different
  • Thinking

• You know when you get into that thing where people want to discuss the relationship? I'd rather discuss what was on telly, avoid the issue, discuss anything other than the relationship.

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp
  • People
  • Relationship

• Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond, which originally made, and must still preserve the unity of the empire.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Freedom
  • Unity

• Well, everybody knew their character. I was the only one who didn't have a partner. I basically showed up when people got in trouble. Where I came from, I don't know. Nobody knows. But I would show up to help.

  

  Bubba Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Character

• The most important of your affairs in my view is prayer; whoever prays regularly has protected his faith, but whoever neglects it, is bound to be more negligent in other issues of faith.

  

  Umar
  • Important
  • Faith
  • Prayer

• I can read in any book and newspaper about the city of Detroit, but I want to hear what the people in Detroit have to say about Detroit. My best education is actually talking to people.

  

  Erin Cummings
  • People
  • Book
  • Cities