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

• My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Character
  • Story
  • Books

• The next night I got on an airplane, and flew to New York and looked into acting schools. Four or five acting schools. One of which was the Neighborhood Playhouse, which I started at six months there after.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Night
  • New York
  • Airplane

• 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

• There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Respect
  • Kindness
  • Generosity

• 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

• What I'm trying to do, and my policy, is to disassociate, to shy away from what's going on in Syria.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Trying
  • Going
  • Away

• 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

• Just let your skin breathe.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Breathe
  • Just
  • Skin

• 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

• My niece was born with cystic fibrosis 15 years ago, and she's incredibly healthy and an incredible competitive dancer, so I'm going to do some events for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

  

  J. R. Bourne
  • She
  • Years
  • Healthy

• I have assumed my clear commitment to a Trinitarian orthodoxy was sufficient evidence that I have not intentionally ignored the role of the Holy Spirit. It may be true, however, that my work has been so Christ-centred, I may have given the impression that the Holy Spirit is an afterthought.

  

  Stanley Hauerwas
  • Spirit
  • Commitment
  • Christ

• I like the idea of a place that is dealing with painful, messy, frightening, and very human events that is also so beautiful and ethereal.

  

  Aimee Bender
  • Beautiful

• The Thames was all gold. God it was beautiful, so fine that I began working a frenzy, following the sun and its reflections on the water.

  

  Claude Monet
  • God
  • Working
  • Reflections

• Don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan of things American - but when American people do British stuff, it's so universally dreadful.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • People
  • American

• I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals.

  

  Lynda Barry
  • Weird
  • Cute

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

  

  Irene Dunne