Carlton Mellick III Quotes

That is the moral of this story, kids. No matter how many people try to stomp on your happiness, you have the power to do whatever you want with your life.

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• Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Family
  • Culture
  • Movies

• I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Dream
  • Always
  • Restaurant

• I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Important
  • Family
  • Giving

• Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • Learning
  • Share

• On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Think
  • Political

• The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Beautiful
  • Night
  • Opportunity

• The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • People
  • Help
  • Need

• I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • World
  • Chance
  • Motivated

• When I met Dante I didn't work in the movies, but I enjoyed so much the movies. I worked in interior design and when I met Dante, we tried to do something together.

  

  Francesca Lo Schiavo
  • Work
  • Together
  • Design

• Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it's hardly tax-free. The property taxes are high for a Southern state. The sales taxes are high. One study found that the bottom 20 percent of the Texas population pays 12 percent of its income in state and local taxes.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Business
  • High
  • Free

• Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Men
  • True
  • Faith

• We need not hide anything from Truth, for it never condemns us, but only wishes to help.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Truth
  • Help
  • Wishes

• What man would not be a dancer if he could, said the judge. It’s a great thing, the dance.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Great
  • Dance
  • Judge

• I don't think there's anything wrong with being paternalistic as a company.

  

  Leonard Lauder

• Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Country
  • Done

• I'm not God's gift to rockabilly. There's great players out there, and some of them deserve a lot more than they've gotten.

  

  Brian Setzer Stray Cats
  • Great
  • God

• As a former EPA administrator under a Republican president, I recognize that it is easy to hate regulations in general. After all, regulatory action causes people to spend money or change behavior, often to solve problems they do not believe exist.

  

  Christine Todd Whitman
  • People
  • Believe
  • Money

• I have role models, but I take the attributes of the people that I admire, and I use them to create my best self.

  

  Marley Dias
  • People

• I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Think

• People think I'm rude. I'm not rude; I'm just not networking. It's just honesty.

  

  Louise Wilson
  • People
  • Honesty
  • Rude

• I'm a vagabond. I live out of one suitcase. I feel very comfortable in black. I feel very uncomfortable in anything else than black.

  

  Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson
  • Live
  • Black

• Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

  

  Ben Lindsey
  • Up
  • Kids

• But by us doing a lot on the road, we were able to afford things like videos on the tours, cartoons that we'd open up the shows with. We were doing that way back when and now it's the hippest thing to do. We're just coming back around, I guess trying to play catch-up.

  

  Bootsy Collins
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Road

• That is the moral of this story, kids. No matter how many people try to stomp on your happiness, you have the power to do whatever you want with your life.

  

  Carlton Mellick III
  • Trying
  • Kids
  • Moral