Irene Dunne Quotes

I don't give my phone number to strangers. It's Plaza 5048.

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• It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

  

  Harold W. Dodds
  • Best
  • Safe
  • Insecurity

• Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Experience
  • Poetry
  • Sad

• I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • People
  • Up
  • Career

• People who work 44 hours per week make 50 percent more than people who work 34 hours a week.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Work
  • Week

• I don't want to let the rest of this country drift into the abyss. I want to fight for it.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Country
  • Want
  • Rest

• I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Time
  • Business
  • Career

• Bullfights are a very cultural thing. I know many people think it's cruel, but so many things are cruel. Hunting, the electric chair, wars. These are all cruel things as well.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • People
  • Think
  • Hunting

• There have been some good studies done in California with Hispanic parents where in the course of a year, they have changed their entire nutritional intake for the better. The kid becomes, in a sense, the bridge between the educational process and the home.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Good
  • Done
  • Home

• I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • You
  • Coward
  • Cautious

• As one of the first employees at a small cellular phone start-up called Nextel, I gained firsthand experience in how a business grows from an idea to a company that, at its peak, employed many thousands.

  

  Jack Markell
  • Up
  • Business
  • Experience

• I think we're getting to the point where everyone's getting fat and everyone's getting allergic, or claims to be allergic to something and people can't walk from their front door to their car without a bottle of water in their hand because they have to hydrate every three and half steps.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Hand
  • Water

• Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Society
  • Free
  • Fear

• I have grown up watching Bollywood movies, and I would love to act in them.

  

  Navi Rawat
  • Up
  • Love
  • Movies

• I have failed at times, but I never stopped trying.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Trying

• Wherever there's injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months late and bomb the country next to where it's happening.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Country
  • America

• It was many and many a year ago,In a kingdom by the sea,That a maiden lived whom you may knowBy the name of Annabel Lee; - And this maiden she lived with no other thoughtThan to love and be loved by me.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • May
  • She
  • Sea

• Someone's gonna get hurt before you're through.Someone's gonna pay for the things you do.How many hearts must break, how many will it take?To satisfy you, just to satisfy you?

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Hurt

• Pure knowledge is the ultimate emancipator. It equalizes people and sovereign states, erodes the archaic barriers of superstition and promises to lift the trajectory of cultural evolution. But I do not believe that it can change the ground rules of human behavior or alter the main course of history's predictable trajectory.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Believe
  • History

• The sniper is like a highly skilled surgeon, practicing his craft on the battlefield.

  

  Brandon Webb

• We like them big ... but we'll settle for players with three kinds of bones - a funnybone, a wishbone and a backbone. The funnybone is to enjoy a laugh, even at one's own expense. The wishbone is to think by, set one's goals high and have dreams and ambitions. And the backbone - well, that's what a player needs to get up and go to work and make those dreams come true.

  

  Duffy Daugherty
  • Players
  • Backbone
  • Wishbone

• I told Sergeant Major Plumley that he had unrestricted access to me at any time, on any subject he wished to raise.

  

  Hal Moore
  • Access
  • Sergeant Major Plumley

• As I look back on the last few decades of my life, I am struck by the good fortune that came my way.

  

  Daniel Nathans
  • Life
  • Good

• Since 1970, I've been using text and ephemera as well as photographs in order to tell stories of one kind or another. There's a thread that runs through all the work that is to do with bearing witness. The photographs are about asking questions, though, not answering them.

  

  Jim Goldberg
  • Work
  • Text

• I don't give my phone number to strangers. It's Plaza 5048.

  

  Irene Dunne