Jack Valenti Quotes
Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.
Quotes to Explore
-
One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
-
All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
-
I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
-
To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
-
The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
-
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
-
The last Pan Am Games in 2011 was one of the best experiences in my career. It was the first time women's boxing was in the Pan Am Games and any major games, and I had the opportunity to box in the first women's boxing fight and then went on to win gold.
Mandy Bujold -
The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
-
My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.
-
My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.
-
It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
-
Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.
-
I knew my destiny was to be in the winner's circle. There were times along the way where I didn't make it there. But I felt my destiny was definitely to win big titles, win lots of titles.
-
The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
-
The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're all working in an international industry.
-
I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
-
I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.
-
A true yogi may remain dutifully in the world; there, he is like butter on water and not like the easily-diluted milk of unchurned and undisciplined humanity.
-
Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt.
-
There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of 'Dreamgirls' was almost overwhelming to me.
-
Already we're seeing graduates of U.S. higher education going back to their home countries and contributing to societies there, where in the past they would have stayed in the U.S. and built new companies here. We have to have immigration reform that allows talented foreigners to become Americans.
-
In the homes of America are born the children of America; and from them go out into American life, American men and women. They go out with the stamp of these homes upon them; and only as these homes are what they should be, will they be what they should be.
-
Welcome to the world of bullshit, my dear. You have arrived.
-
Every parent in America has the total power to control all television programming that is dispatched to their home today.
