Estelle Parsons Quotes

It is so important to get respect for what you do and at the same time give it.

Estelle Parsons

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• All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Genius
  • Chaos
  • Mystery

• I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Bad
  • Places
  • Penny

• If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Chance

• I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate.

  

  Kate Greenaway
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Political
  • Best
  • Couple

• I almost bought a DeLorean the other day just because. If I see something that I think is cool and I like it, I'll go for it.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Think
  • Day
  • Cool

• I've been in many auditions thinking, 'God, do I have to take my shirt off?'

  

  Sam Heughan
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Take

• I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• A lot of the time, when people meet someone in a wheelchair, or with some disability, it's the first thing they notice, but they don't know how to react.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Time
  • Disability

• People think I'm eccentric, cranky. If I'm eccentric because I've never been into mainstream things, then I am eccentric.

  

  Van Morrison
  • People

• Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Believe
  • Friends

• The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Great
  • Father
  • Science

• 'It makes me madder than a hornet to be disbelieved,' she explained.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • She

• That's what's so great, I get to play any character in the world. And I think that's one of the things that makes doing 'Comedy Bang Bang' or other improv podcasts so fun, as well as my own, is that you can really explore a character deeply for a long period of time that is nothing like yourself.

  

  Lauren Lapkus
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• I think the only way to behave is as if nothing is private. And then fight to make what you care about legal and acceptable.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff

• The British Red Cross asked me to help them spearhead a fundraising campaign for the victims of the war in Nicaragua. It was a turning point in my life. It began my commitment to justice and human rights issues.

  

  Bianca Jagger
  • Life
  • War
  • Help

• Through these adversities, Israel has endured with continued strength, conviction, and faith.

  

  Jerry Costello
  • Faith

• I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories.

  

  Donna Tartt
  • People
  • Long

• If you can't put your values into your vote, we don't have a democracy.

  

  Jill Stein
  • Democracy

• There's a tradition in war writing that the veteran goes over and sees the truth of war and comes back. And I'm skeptical of that.

  

  Phil Klay
  • Writing
  • Truth
  • War

• I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Reality
  • Law
  • Community

• The way I see it, what is going to come out of the moon activities is a respect for U.S. leadership.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Way
  • Respect
  • Leadership

• My aim was to create armaments to protect the borders of my motherland. It is not my fault that the Kalashnikov became very well-known in the world; that it was used in many troubled places. I think the policies of these countries are to blame, not the designers. Man is born to protect his family, his children, his wife. But I want you to know that apart from armaments, I have written three books in which I try to educate our youth to show respect for their families, for old people, for history.

  

  Mikhail Kalashnikov
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• It is so important to get respect for what you do and at the same time give it.

  

  Estelle Parsons
  • Respect
  • Give It