Wanda Jackson Quotes

You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.

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• Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • May
  • Faith
  • Belief

• I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Women
  • Star
  • Woman

• After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Living

• I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Myself
  • Like
  • See

• What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

  

  Irv Kupcinet
  • God
  • Society
  • Alive

• By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • Long
  • Future

• The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Politics
  • Decisions
  • Doors

• Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.

  

  Banks
  • Music
  • Me
  • Walking

• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Up
  • Great
  • Men

• Speaking is physically difficult for me.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Me
  • Difficult
  • Speaking

• I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.

  

  Daniel Cudmore
  • Mind
  • Want
  • Cool

• Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • World
  • Age
  • Working

• I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got a lot back - all their purity and insight and innocence is so on the surface, and they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • School
  • Job
  • Teacher

• No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Hope
  • Courage
  • Homosexual

• I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Think
  • Teach

• It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Time
  • Men
  • Promise

• When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Know
  • Become
  • Let Go

• I really like the language of painting.

  

  Chris Ofili
  • Painting

• The ways in which people are damaged are the ways in which they're strong. It's what makes people interesting - what they've overcome and how, and what they haven't and how that's become a good thing. Almost everyone's life is both a gorgeous story and a tragedy. I think being alive is really, really hard, and I'm constantly stunned and amazed by people who make it interesting and beautiful.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Beautiful

• We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Self-Love

• The majority of Afghans do not see the Americans as foreign occupiers who must be defeated. Instead, they are hungry for the Americans to step up and help them make their country safer, their government cleaner and their economy stronger. They are disappointed because the international community has done too little, not too much.

  

  Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
  • Up
  • Country
  • Done

• I grew up in a religious community, and like everyone, I went through a period of doubt and later made a conscious choice to embrace the faith of my childhood.

  

  Gene Luen Yang
  • Up
  • Faith
  • Community

• You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • People
  • Think
  • Today