Susan Collins (Susan Margaret Collins) Quotes

If you don't know what you want, you'll probably get what somebody else wants.

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• I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Enough
  • Said
  • Say

• In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Different
  • You
  • Film

• I am honoured to be associated with a brand like Movado. It believes in the art of design and is known for its perfection worldwide. I have strong faith in the pursuit of perfection. I am looking forward to a long association.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Long
  • Art
  • Strong

• I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Bad
  • Mean
  • Underdog

• When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Slavery
  • Saying

• Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Justice
  • Easy
  • Injustice

• Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Work
  • Song
  • Lady

• Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Children
  • Parenting

• Whenever I did sitcoms, that always happened on your show. Once the show was on the air, it takes on a life of its own. It develops, and it becomes something else.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Life
  • Always
  • Air

• When I was seven, I asked my mom if I could be on TV, and she said if I really wanted to, I could. I got an agent and booked my first audition.

  

  Natasha Calis
  • She
  • Mom
  • Said

• I hope people describe my music as lyrically driven, cross genre. Kind of alternative, kind of indie, kind of rap, kind of everything.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Music
  • Hope

• I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • People
  • Up
  • Working Class

• Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Time
  • Women
  • Identity

• I've banged my head quite a bit. I liked Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC. And of course, Ratt and Poison.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Head
  • Poison
  • Iron

• I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • America
  • Go
  • Switzerland

• But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Live
  • Fact
  • Take

• Well, for one, I don't judge my characters.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Judge
  • Characters
  • Well

• We were able in the Recovery Act to get a program where we increased our loan guarantees to 90 percent. Because we had that program, a bank wouldn't have to take that much risk.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Risk
  • Act
  • Recovery

• I quite like being who I am.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Like

• I don't want to see Superman replaced with Superboy.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Want
  • See
  • Superman

• I didn't even know what it was when I started. But I was lucky. I found it at 16. Most people don't discover decathlon until they're 21 or 22.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Know
  • Lucky

• Some full professors could more accurately be described as empty professors.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Education
  • Empty
  • Professors

• If you don't know what you want, you'll probably get what somebody else wants.

  

  Susan Collins
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