Vicki Lawrence Quotes

I had a hit talk show. I just wasn't working for the right people.

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• My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• Women are blessed with energy - a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Women
  • Power
  • Strong

• What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Best

• I am not an American; I am the American.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • American

• If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Long
  • Country

• I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Myself
  • Years
  • Old

• The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • History
  • Write
  • Main Thing

• I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'

  

  Daniel Curtis Lee
  • Think
  • Like
  • Young

• My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Kids
  • Influence

• I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

  

  J. Cole
  • Want
  • Man
  • Science

• There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Great
  • Tradition
  • Kings

• What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem?

  

  Ed Smith
  • Problem
  • Wrong
  • His

• I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Time
  • Job
  • Day

• I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Love
  • Crowds
  • Festivals

• I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • People
  • Power
  • Truth

• I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Experience
  • Bad
  • Try

• From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.

  

  Ueli Gegenschatz
  • More
  • Relative
  • Skydiving

• I'm a hard worker and love my work. I have felt pulled toward work. And it's a pull I have ferociously had to counter to make room for my family.

  

  Arlie Russell Hochschild
  • Work
  • Family

• I have committed to contribute in raising general public awareness, as well as inspiring broad, positive, committed action against illegal trade. It is an on-going and tough fight, but I believe that if we all join our hands, we can conquer!

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Believe
  • Action
  • Positive

• I think a politician would be very, very cool to play. Or an American musician of some sort, or like an American pioneer like the Dohenys or the Rockefellers or something.

  

  Jake Abel
  • American
  • Cool

• People who weren't there can say it was idiotic or shortsighted, but when you're in a moment where horrible things are happening in front of you, sometimes you just need to act on what's best.

  

  Bob Morley
  • People

• We live in a world filled with language. Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human community. Writers are either polluters or part of the clean-up team. Just as the language of power and greed has the potential to destroy us, the language of reason and empathy has the power to save us. Writers can inspire a kinder, fairer, more beautiful world, or invite selfishness, stereotyping, and violence. Writers can unite people or divide them.

  

  Mary Pipher
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I had a hit talk show. I just wasn't working for the right people.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Right
  • Working