Laura Dern Quotes

Being an actress my whole life, it feels so good to have a clean face when I'm off, so I'm not a big makeup wearer.

Laura Dern

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• It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Great
  • Man
  • Blessings

• I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Money
  • Why
  • Job

• Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • Space
  • Ideas
  • Own

• I think 4 percent growth is a good goal. And I think the fact that we have become used to an economy that sort of putt putts along between 1 and 2 percent is sort of tragic.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Good
  • Growth
  • Goal

• The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Life
  • Career
  • Me

• I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Trying

• We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Better
  • Performance
  • Sales

• I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Good
  • School
  • Help

• Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Up
  • Days
  • Breaking

• The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Myself
  • Understand
  • Talk

• Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Military
  • Two
  • Fiji

• It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Change
  • Me
  • Grief

• I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Difference
  • Match
  • Fresh

• I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Writing
  • You
  • Working

• Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.

  

  Vincent Canby
  • World
  • Curiosity
  • Without

• If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Think
  • Competition
  • Taste

• A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Mind
  • Rich
  • Aesthetic

• Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

  

  U Thant
  • Men
  • Love
  • Compassion

• I think science and spirituality are one and the same, I don't think they're really different…quantum physics is validating all kinds of spiritual teachings.

  

  Jennifer Beals
  • Different
  • Science
  • Spiritual

• But if it’s true that the only true life I had was the life of my brain, what sense does it make to hand that brain to somebody for eight hours a day for their particular use on the presumption that, at the end of the day, they will give it back in an unmutilated condition? Fat chance!

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Life
  • True
  • Giving

• The more specific we are, the more universal something can become. Life is in the details. If you generalize, it doesn't resonate. The specificity of it is what resonates.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • Life

• Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Heart
  • Nature
  • Night

• Students who learn to collaborate and negotiate - on Capitol Hill, in the board room, in everyday life - will outperform peers who have higher test scores.

  

  Charles Best
  • Life
  • Everyday

• Being an actress my whole life, it feels so good to have a clean face when I'm off, so I'm not a big makeup wearer.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Life
  • Good
  • Makeup