Gail Parent Quotes

She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.

Gail Parent

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• Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Experience
  • Intellect
  • Dogma

• Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Good
  • Pain
  • Hurt

• I've always said I wanted to play in England. There was a struggle between Chelsea and United, but according to me, Chelsea has the best project.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Play
  • Best
  • Struggle

• Today, the scope for variety has shrunk drastically. There are only a handful of topnotch composers like A. R. Rahman, Anu Malik, Jatin-Lalit... that's it.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Today
  • Like
  • Variety

• At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • You
  • First
  • Reservations

• I was the official wedding photographer at one of my best friends' weddings. Fortunately she was one of the most easygoing brides ever, so she made it easy for me.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Friends
  • Wedding
  • Photographer

• On the national security front, Rick Santorum is superior to any candidate I know.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Know
  • Security
  • Front

• Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Art
  • Job
  • History

• Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Character
  • Man
  • Persistence

• A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Women
  • Country
  • Children

• To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Work
  • School
  • Kid

• I think mobile homes are a blight on the planet. Attractive, affordable housing is possible, and I'm out to prove it.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • Think
  • Possible
  • Housing

• If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Believe
  • Single

• I think I'm pretty fearless. I like to try things at least once, things that I never thought that I would try.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Thought

• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Name
  • Albums

• No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Person
  • Language
  • Mouth

• I can't even go down to the park anymore back home in Newark, New Jersey because my homeboys won't let me play. They tell me I'm too big time, too Hollywood, so they won't let me play out there no more.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Time
  • Home
  • Me

• Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Want
  • Sometimes
  • Keep Going

• You remember the finals you lose as much as the ones you win.

  

  Frank Lampard
  • Remember

• I have this wonderful personal chef who sources and stocks all my organic produce and I basically live on five smoothies a day. I'm totally vegan. I blend this green concoction with kale, cucumber, broccoli, string beans, avocado. My protein comes from protein powder. There is absolutely no milk, butter, cheese.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Live
  • Day
  • Green

• I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet.

  

  Neale Donald Walsch
  • God
  • Book
  • Friendship

• War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton
  • Men
  • War
  • Bad

• The art of wealth-getting which consists in household management, on the one hand, has a limit; the unlimited acquisition of wealth is not its business. And therefore, in one point of view, all riches must have a limit; nevertheless, as a matter of fact, we find the opposite to be the case; for all getters of wealth increase their hard coin without limit.

  

  Aristotle
  • Art
  • Business
  • Wealth

• She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.

  

  Gail Parent
  • Live
  • Women
  • She