Vicki Lawrence Quotes

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

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• 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

• You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Up
  • God
  • Career

• In men's sports, people criticize coaches and managers all the time, call out teammates, too, and it's not that huge of a deal. Often, the guy speaking out is even lauded for having the courage to tell the truth. When it happens in women's sports, though, it always seems to be viewed as a nasty, claws-out cat fight.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Live
  • Death
  • Die

• I don't want to give the illusion that one day God came down and I was healed.

  

  Cheryl James
  • God

• As we get older, people close down. We get less adaptive, less flexible - literally. Curiosity can diminish, and you want safety. You want what you know.

  

  Holly Hunter
  • People
  • Safety
  • Curiosity

• I love meeting new people, different cultures. I love that.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • People
  • Different
  • Love

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

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Right
  • Working