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I remember when I first wanted to act my parents were supportive, but it was that they were like please, if you can find something else in the world, don't do this. So it wasn't even they're like 'Oh we've been waiting for you to arrive, welcome to the family business' kind of thing.

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• In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Talent

• I do make a good ragu pasta, which everyone seems to like. Or that could be just me talking; who knows what they really think. I actually stole the recipe from my older sister Vera, who also loves to cook. I took all my recipes from her.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Good
  • Knows
  • Sister

• I can stay up watching TV so late.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Up
  • I Can
  • Watching

• There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Single
  • Understand

• I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Always
  • More
  • Push

• People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Truth
  • Dumb

• Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Kind
  • Racing
  • Birds

• Clinton was super attuned to other people to the point where he talks about feeling other people's pain. Clinton is probably the most buoyant, resilient person in American political history.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • American
  • History

• I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow.

  

  Barry Sheene
  • May
  • Stop
  • Years

• Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • True
  • Lies
  • Tell

• I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Think
  • Christian
  • Trouble

• Russia has always had a global history. Global history is a bummer. You suffer invasions of all different kinds. And Russia was not defended against them.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Different
  • History
  • You

• I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this 'I, me, mine' type of thing.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • People
  • Help
  • Religion

• Boxing's in my genes. I come from a fighting background. My dad and both my uncles were good boxers. I'm blessed with the art of war.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Good
  • Art
  • War

• I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Happy
  • Me
  • Reading

• I stay away from the elf roles; I stay away from playing a leprechaun. All the roles I try to do are something that an average actor would do.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Something
  • Try
  • Average

• We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Wall
  • Promise
  • Security

• A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Democracy
  • Practice
  • Forced

• Rocket engineering is not like ditch digging. With ditch digging you can get 100 people and dig a ditch, and you will dig it a hundred times as faster if you get 100 people versus one. With rockets, you have to solve the problem of a particular level of difficulty; one person who can solve the problem is worth an infinite number of people who can’t.

  

  Elon Musk
  • People
  • Engineering

• No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.

  

  Lynn Johnston
  • Good

• In the 1920s, big names in the Arab world spoke of Scheherazade as an example for intellectuals fighting for their rights. She was a fighter for the right of free expression.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • World
  • Expression
  • Rights

• The first thing I did on television was a PBS thing where I played a priest. It was a Walt Whitman or Carl Sandburg story - I can't quite remember - but I was a turn-of-the-20th-century priest kind of guy. Never saw it; don't know if I was any good or not.

  

  Kelsey Grammer
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Guy

• I remember when I first wanted to act my parents were supportive, but it was that they were like please, if you can find something else in the world, don't do this. So it wasn't even they're like 'Oh we've been waiting for you to arrive, welcome to the family business' kind of thing.

  

  Troian Bellisario
  • World
  • Remember
  • Kind