Larry Wilcox Quotes

Dentistry was an ego trip, and acting is a personal need. Usually it's the reverse, and I honestly don't think I had the talent in my hands to be a good dentist.

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Good
  • Done
  • Identity

• It just seems like the most fun thing in the world. I've never met people who have kids who haven't looked me in the eye and been like, 'It's the greatest thing that's ever happened.'

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • World
  • Kids

• I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Never
  • Even

• I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Day
  • Sky

• When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • People
  • Think
  • Listen

• Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Father

• Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Picture
  • New
  • News

• I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • House
  • Loved
  • Living

• I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.

  

  Victor Borge
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Year

• But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Nature

• Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Song
  • Happiness
  • Very

• Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Need

• You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Why
  • You
  • Walk

• There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Power
  • Bigger
  • Aphrodisiac

• If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Fans

• I'm good friends with Lee Westwood. Bubba, Rickie Fowler. A few of the top hitters.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Good Friends

• My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Hand

• Every other day I read a book. It takes me two days to finish a book. I like reading because if I'm not doing anything, then I read. If my mom tells me to go take out the trash, I'll go take out the trash, and come back and start reading again.

  

  Khleo
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Mom

• Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.

  

  Donella Meadows

• Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Life
  • Good
  • Today

• I didn't have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started exploring in lots of different creative ways. It gave me the opportunity to travel and play music, so it was good for me.

  

  Brie Larson
  • Good
  • Music
  • Different

• I want to get good enough so I can play in Mia Hamm's golf tournament for her foundation and have an event of my own someday. I'm so competitive, I don't want to go and just pretend I'm a good golfer.

  

  Ali Krieger
  • Good
  • Golf

• Dentistry was an ego trip, and acting is a personal need. Usually it's the reverse, and I honestly don't think I had the talent in my hands to be a good dentist.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Good
  • Talent
  • Ego