Evan Ross Quotes

The one worry that I always have with TV is that it's such a long commitment. You sign on to be there for a good amount of time, and then you can't go and do films and things like that.

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• I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Woman
  • Choice
  • Independence

• I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • New

• If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.

  

  Page McConnell
  • Live
  • Business
  • Support

• I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'

  

  Ted Danson
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  • Cheers

• Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • True
  • Today

• The very best testament to the validity of the Warren Commission's findings is that after an unrelenting, close to forty-five-year effort, the Commission's fiercest critics have not been able to produce any new credible evidence that would in any way justify a different conclusion.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Different
  • Best
  • Effort

• My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Time
  • Long
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• You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Game
  • You
  • Alert

• I think the reason Buddhism and Western psychology are so compatible is that Western psychology helps to identify the stories and the patterns in our personal lives, but what Buddhist awareness training does is it actually allows the person to develop skills to stay in what's going on.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Training
  • Psychology
  • Skills

• Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Love
  • Opportunities
  • Rejection

• Whether you watch 'Law and Order' all the time or not, everyone knows what it looks like. Everyone knows what the courtroom looks like, what the police precinct looks like.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Time
  • Law
  • Police

• My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Father

• Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Change
  • Die
  • Old

• When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me. So when David Fincher comes along and wants to direct 'The Social Network,' when Bennett Miller comes along and wants to direct 'Moneyball,' or when Danny Boyle wants to direct 'Jobs'? Hallelujah. I want them directing it.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Want
  • Me
  • Best

• That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Movie
  • Never
  • Finish

• Look at Michelle Obama. Everyone keeps making a big deal about her arms being exposed, but don't get it twisted: her arms are out for a reason. Black women have had those arms forever - lifting, picking cotton, toting and carrying babies.

  

  LaTanya Richardson
  • Women
  • Black
  • Forever

• What happened in the past can help you know what's going to happen in the future. That insight brings a next level of intelligence not just to sales and marketing but to ERP, where you can save more money in procurement or figure out whether the people you recruit are going to be successful in your organization.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • People
  • Money
  • Help

• Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality.

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • Happiness
  • Morality

• We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Hope
  • Solitude
  • Bitter

• They give me a shot and a handful of pills to swallow. I stare at the thin red wall of my inner eyelid and listen to my skin and I can't be sure how the medication is affecting me. I can't remember how I'm supposed to feel. I can't remember my name. I have never seen my face.

  

  Will Christopher Baer
  • Remember
  • Feel
  • Name

• A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • People
  • Today
  • Stop

• When I was in the hospital getting my sex change, I was just wishing I could be a pretty girl working in a mall. If I could have a crystal ball and see what I look like now - you know, modeling, David LaChapelle, hanging out with Daphne Guinness, singing with Lil' Kim, and traveling all over the world, I'd be like, "Wow, I can't believe this."

  

  Amanda Lepore
  • World
  • Believe
  • Girl

• I know that if I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films. That, I remember, and I know I have to accept it.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Remember
  • Look
  • Films

• The one worry that I always have with TV is that it's such a long commitment. You sign on to be there for a good amount of time, and then you can't go and do films and things like that.

  

  Evan Ross
  • Worry
  • Commitment
  • Films