William Lipscomb Quotes

When I was 11 years old, my mother bought me one of those chemistry sets, and I stayed with it.

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• I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Doing

• The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.

  

  Laura Moser
  • People
  • Why
  • Kids

• What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Ended

• You need to have camaraderie in the clubhouse. Wherever you're working, be it a baseball team or at a business, you want to walk in there and say, 'Geez, it's great to be at work. Let's go get 'em,' as opposed to walking in there knowing there's going to be a commotion.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Work
  • Great
  • Business

• I don't care about revenues.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Care
  • About

• I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Home
  • Learn
  • Same

• Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Fear
  • Meeting

• Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Time
  • Art
  • Me

• There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Virtue
  • Excellence
  • Without

• I did two or three plays every summer.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Summer
  • Two
  • Three

• With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Up
  • Character
  • Parents

• Even when I turn 60, they'll call me a child actor.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Child
  • Actor
  • Turn

• When I met Michael Jordan on a basketball court at an athletic club – we hooped together in Chicago – he came to me and asked me if I wanted to do a song for his upcoming movie. I was like, 'Yeah!' I didn't even ask what it was.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Movie
  • Song
  • Basketball

• I have never been someone who applied 'work begets work' to my career, sometimes unfortunately.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Work
  • Career
  • Sometimes

• It's sad that people will invade someone's privacy - and this is not only regarding someone's private photos - but this goes deep into people's financial privacy, their passwords, their emails, their text messages.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • People
  • Deep
  • Financial

• When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled at drawing. My teachers encouraged my art work. When I was 9 or 10, I began learning piano and started writing music.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Work
  • Music
  • Writing

• They say that all the Cats whose wicked deeds are widely known (I might mention Mungojerrie, I might mention Griddlebone) Are nothing more than agents for the Cat who all the time Just controls their operations: the Napoleon of Crime!

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Time
  • Cat
  • Napoleon

• The High-Intelligence Life Forms of the planet, of which there were at least three species, all of low technological achievement, they would ignore or enslave or extirpate, whichever was most convenient. For to an aggressive people only technology mattered.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • People
  • Life
  • High

• My mother and father instilled in me a sense of purpose not defined by today's street obsession with bling, cars or cribs.

  

  Brian J. White
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Today

• Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never.

  

  Liz Murray
  • Life
  • Time
  • Mother

• When I feel something in my gut, I can feel it physically. But my instincts seem to come from a different place - they feel headier to me, and I get the wrong scent, and go off on these whims where I think that something is happening when it's not.

  

  Emma Stone
  • Come
  • Instincts
  • Different Place

• Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Lesson
  • Phenomena
  • Look For

• When I was 11 years old, my mother bought me one of those chemistry sets, and I stayed with it.

  

  William Lipscomb
  • Mother
  • Chemistry
  • Sets