Roma Downey Quotes

Between stimulus and response, there is a space, and when you take time to pray or make a cuppa, you don't have to live in reaction to a situation.

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• I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Crazy
  • Voice
  • Speak

• Golf is played with the arms.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Golf
  • Played
  • Arms

• I think hip-hop is no more misogynistic than America is as a society. I just think hip-hop is a lot more brash, a lot more bold, a lot more loquacious. There are a lot more words that go into a hip-hop song than go into a regular song.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • America
  • Song
  • Society

• Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
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• Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
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• You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply can't in a movie. A movie really has to choose its battles.

  

  Walter Kirn
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• As a comedian, I am obligated to tell you the truth, my truth. To share with you my beliefs, my perspective. And I think that we forget sometimes that that's the oath that comics take, that we will go up and share everything - the irreverent, the scary.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Truth
  • Perspective
  • Beliefs

• I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Kids
  • Anxiety
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• I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.

  

  Garry Trudeau
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• If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.

  

  Sam Kinison
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• Always believe what you see - with your own eyes, that is. Always believe what you see. That's the best way to go about this business. I've heard a lot of things about a lot of people, and it was never true.

  

  R. Kelly
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• It's funny how the smallest things I've done speak the loudest about me, but I like that.

  

  Xavier Niel
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• I'm not comically oriented. I get angry and I start complaining and then people start laughing. I don't even want them to laugh half the time.

  

  Adam Carolla
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• I cannot believe I became some kind of hero. I'm just a common Korean woman.

  

  Yi So-Yeon
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• Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.

  

  Karel Capek
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• I never had high expectations going into Hollywood. I went there just to work.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
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• I think I'm a million different faces.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
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• No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.

  

  Harold Ramis
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• When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Women
  • Society
  • Road

• When my works are being translated, I always get this question from my translators: Up or down? Which means, should it sound biblical and highbrow, or should we take it all down to sound colloquial? In Hebrew, it's both all the time. People in Israel would write in a high register, they wouldn't write colloquial speech. I do a special take on colloquial speech.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • People
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  • Special

• The difficulty really is psychological and exists in the perpetual torment that results from your saying to yourself, "But how can it be like that?" which is a reflection of uncontrolled but utterly vain desire to see it in terms of something familiar. ... If you will simply admit that maybe Nature does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possible avoid it, "But how can it be like that?" because you will get 'down the drain', into a blind alley from which nobody has escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Science
  • Desire
  • Reflection

• Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.

  

  Raoul Vaneigem
  • Generations
  • Contempt
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• Between stimulus and response, there is a space, and when you take time to pray or make a cuppa, you don't have to live in reaction to a situation.

  

  Roma Downey
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