Irene Dunne Quotes

One of the choicest occupations here is ripping reputations into pieces.

Irene Dunne

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• The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Different
  • Band
  • New

• I think that God kind of put me in the place in my life to not be quiet about it, not be quiet about Him, but to reach people and to inspire people.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• In my lab, we're interested in the transition from chemistry to early biology on the early earth.

  

  Jack W. Szostak
  • Earth
  • Early
  • Transition

• Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball, and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Song
  • Best

• I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Trying
  • Hope

• There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Heart
  • Story
  • Secrets

• My feminist training was that this was your goal, to be a self-sufficient woman, but that is a miscalculation. It's just not the way we work. We work in dialogue with the community.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Work
  • Community
  • Training

• Lawsuits prod companies to make their products safer.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Products
  • Lawsuits
  • Prod

• I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I was born in Colorado and grew up in Pennsylvania with family in Texas and Oklahoma.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • Family
  • Born

• A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Up
  • Woman
  • Skills

• It's weird to me when an artist comes in, and the label says, 'We want him to sound like Chris Brown,' but he says he wants to sound like Sean Paul. There's a huge disconnect – it's like we're making a product.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Want
  • Artist
  • Weird

• There's only so many variations on the basics of human relationships. To me, it's all about the detail and how you tell the story. How you say, 'I love you.'

  

  K. Flay
  • Human
  • Story
  • Detail

• Your goals should be to have the system work for you instead of your working for the system! Be the hammer - not the nail!

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Work
  • Goals
  • System

• Professional societies are sooner or later fractured by the ego of their leaders. Everyone wants to be president, chairman, CEO; no one wants to be a mere follower.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Professional
  • Ego
  • Everyone

• I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Water
  • Habit
  • Afraid

• If you hand a man a lemon and tell him that its sourness lies outside the lemon, he will think you are joking. Yet, with a perfectly straight face, that same man will tell you that his sour life is caused by external events. When will man learn that he is the cause of his own feelings for either happiness or anxiety?

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Life
  • Hand
  • Lies

• They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

  

  Edmund Burke

• External beauty is a bizarre thing to me.

  

  Douglas Booth

• There was a period of time when I couldn't seem to get anything. I was on the series 'Daniel Boone,' and then, when that ended, I was still under 18, so I was too young to be in the older category and too old to be a child. So there was a few years there that were dry.

  

  Veronica Cartwright
  • Time
  • Period
  • Child

• Yes, it is hard out there. But hard is relative. I come from a middle-class family, my parents are academics. I was born after the Civil Rights movement, I was a toddler during the women's movement, I live in the United States of America, all of which means I am allowed to own my freedom, my rights, my voice and my uterus.

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • Born
  • Parent
  • Movement

• I don't believe that there is any good career move or bad career move. I believe there are only the things that make me happy.

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • Believe
  • Girl
  • Moving

• The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode.

  

  Spalding Gray
  • Thinking
  • Faces

• One of the choicest occupations here is ripping reputations into pieces.

  

  Irene Dunne