Selma Blair Quotes

I don't think ambition was ever my strong suit. I always wanted to be successful, because you want to be good at what you do, but I've definitely always enjoyed playing a supporting part. I really enjoy the success of others.

Selma Blair

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• I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Think

• Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Alone
  • Confidence

• Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Work
  • School

• It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Great
  • Free
  • Foundation

• All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Up
  • You
  • Emotion

• Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around, but he carried it off so well.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • School
  • Uncle
  • Medical

• This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.

  

  Frances E. Willard
  • Time
  • Law
  • Moving

• Once I leave this earth, I know I've done something that will continue to help others.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Done
  • Help
  • Earth

• I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Age
  • Wisdom
  • Confused

• The public always picks quality.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Quality
  • Always
  • Public

• We're all Americans trying to compete. Magic was competing for his team and Larry for his team.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Trying
  • Team
  • Magic

• I've heard people say to me, 'How can you claim to be a feminist when you dress like that?' I wear a lot of slip dresses and nightwear and stuff. People always question my credibility because of that: 'Oh, are you selling sex? Are you doing this or that to be recognized more or to sell your music?' No, it's just a fashion thing for me.

  

  Charli XCX
  • People
  • Music
  • Question

• I am blessed with the energy of a chimpanzee. There is nothing I can't get up for and give it a hundred percent.

  

  Jimmy Iovine
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Blessed

• All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.

  

  Delmore Schwartz

• Here we are, worrying about whether we're thin enough or whether our bottom looks too big in this pair of trousers or even whether or not I should wear a hat - does it really matter in comparison to the important things that are going on in the world?

  

  Cherie Blair
  • World
  • Important

• I can play the harmonica with my nose.

  

  Chord Overstreet

• My dad and I used to do movie marathons when I was a kid at the Chinese Theatre, and I just remember thinking, 'One day I want to have a movie here' And then later on, when 'Save The Last Dance' premiered there, that was definitely a full circle moment.

  

  Bianca Lawson
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Movie

• In general, fashion is decorative, it's protective, it acknowledges that the world does involve conflict, and you might be attacked by assumptions, presumptions, and attitudes.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • World
  • Fashion

• In 'A Room of One's Own', Virginia Woolf satirically describes her perplexity at the bulging card catalog of the British Museum: why, she asks, are there so many books written by men about women but none by women about men? The answer to her question is that from the beginning of time men have been struggling with the threat of woman's dominance.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• You need good training partners - because you’re only as good as your training partners - and a strong desire to always get better.

  

  Cain Velasquez
  • Good
  • Strong
  • Desire

• Border security is a complex issue and will remain a top priority during the 2007 legislative year. As Congress works to fix this problem, I will continue to push for strong measures that beef up security at our borders.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Up
  • Strong
  • Problem

• You bring your children onto this earth thinking, 'Okay, I want to make sure that by that time, I'm gonna be good and that they'll be okay.' But it's like, every day we're worried, 'Are we gonna be good?' Things change constantly, so you just gotta push, and you gotta work to the core.

  

  Christine Flores
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• The great thing about not having a script is there's nothing you have to shoot that day. When you start filming, you can shoot anything you want. There's no pressure to shoot anything. Whatever interests you that day is what you're shooting. That's a big liberation that makes it more enjoyable and more relaxed. I think if you have that kind of framework it can make it a much more satisfying thing to work on and to watch as well.

  

  Michael Winterbottom
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Kind

• I don't think ambition was ever my strong suit. I always wanted to be successful, because you want to be good at what you do, but I've definitely always enjoyed playing a supporting part. I really enjoy the success of others.

  

  Selma Blair
  • Thinking
  • Strong
  • Successful