Michael Foreman Quotes

The seed of an idea laying dormant in an old sketchbook is fed the missing ingredient from a new experience. Trying to share some of these experiences, some of the wonders, is one of the reasons why I do books.

Michael Foreman

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• For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Up
  • Never
  • Grow

• I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • Great
  • Family
  • America

• I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • People
  • Want
  • Myself

• I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!

  

  Van Morrison
  • Never
  • Moon
  • Silver

• I don't think there's any difference in my passion than when I was a young coach. I hope somebody in some way realizes I could be an asset, but we'll just wait and see.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Hope
  • Think
  • Passion

• I don't like crazy names. I don't like them. I don't think it makes any sense. You have to think about the child and, as they get older, what they have to deal with. A lot of people do things as a fad, and they want to get some attention, but it's like, this is your child.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Attention
  • Crazy

• The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Age
  • Peace
  • Alone

• I entered the industry at very young age, and I was like any normal girl at the age of 17 or 18. At that age, most girls are a little plump.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Age
  • Girl
  • Young

• As a woman, and as a working mom trying to get things done, you find yourself meeting adversity a lot, but you never talk about it because you don't want to bring attention to it. You don't want to go there.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Attention

• I would not waste time, as Senator Gillibrand does, on things such as dictating a national minimum driving age and sponsoring a 'National Day of Play.' I'd help New Yorkers understand that we get less in value from Washington than what we send there in taxes.

  

  Wendy E. Long
  • Time
  • Help
  • Age

• That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Church
  • Christian
  • Religion

• I have a naive outlook on life. That's who I am.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Life
  • Naive
  • Outlook

• In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that minority set-aside programs in municipal contracts were unconstitutional. The court wondered if there were proof that people of color even want to receive municipal contracts.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • People
  • Want
  • Color

• I usually eat a salad for lunch and before a game since it keeps me feeling healthy and energized on the field. I love piling on the toppings: the more colorful the better! I usually do nuts, fruit and avocado, but I also mix up my creations with different toppings and lettuces.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Up
  • Different
  • Love

• I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Understand
  • Say
  • Wants

• Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Life
  • Struggle
  • Fight

• The IFP is here to put into practice what we preach.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Practice
  • Here
  • Preach

• We'll always need energy. We need to communicate, too, but we're not stuck with hand gestures and smoke signals. There are better ways to power our future than by digging fossil fuel from the ground and setting it on fire.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Power
  • Future
  • Energy

• I may discuss love, and I don't mind if two men fall in love, fine. Two women, fine. But I flinch when I think of two Jewish women getting together and having a child because the idea of having two Jewish mothers makes my head explode. I have one; I couldn't handle two.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Men
  • Women
  • Mind

• It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties; but it is one thing to know how to give and another thing not to know how to keep. Give me a heart that is easy and open, but I will have no holes in it; let it be bountiful with judgment, but I will have nothing run out of it I know not how.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • People
  • World
  • Mind

• I've criticized myself over the years.

  

  Cenk Uygur
  • Myself
  • Criticized

• The seed of an idea laying dormant in an old sketchbook is fed the missing ingredient from a new experience. Trying to share some of these experiences, some of the wonders, is one of the reasons why I do books.

  

  Michael Foreman
  • Idea
  • Books
  • Experiences