Ricki Lake Quotes

I was a girl and became a woman. Something about having the freedom at home to be in the position I wanted, to have the people I wanted, was empowering.

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• The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Song
  • Positive
  • Record

• I had some nerve damage that was kind of messing up my grip a little.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Little

• When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Want
  • Know
  • Old

• In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Bad
  • Responsibility
  • Admit

• If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Experience
  • Game
  • Mathematics

• We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.

  

  Candice Patton
  • Race
  • Silly
  • Exist

• Anytime you're writing stories about a group of people with whom you have limited experience, there's a lot of guesswork.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Writing
  • Experience

• I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever thought I would write historical fiction. I never thought I might write academic history because I simply wasn't good enough!

  

  Pat Barker
  • Good
  • History
  • Age

• Like those itinerant clerics who traveled during the summer months and took over for vacationing priests, I hope to help out this summer in Provincetown, but without the pedophilia.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Help
  • Hope
  • Summer

• Self-help books for those who believe You can have it all often advise, Follow your bliss and money will follow. With the collapse of the stock markets the reality of trade-offs is more like, When you follow your bliss, it’s money you’ll miss.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Help

• At the end of the day, UFC is a business.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Business

• Externally China desires independence, internally she seeks to maintain her existence as a nation; China therefore strives to loose the bonds that bind her people, and to complete the establishment of a new State.

  

  Chiang Kai-shek
  • People
  • She

• I can't do most things, if I'm honest, but cooking I definitely can't do.

  

  Len Goodman
  • Cooking

• There's certainly never a dull moment in the Stewart clan.

  

  Penny Lancaster

• I chose my own path because that was the only way.

  

  Dulquer Salmaan
  • Path

• The game has been great to me. The Steelers have been great to me, and I think things will work out and take its toll. But I'm just singularly focused on being a great player, being here around the guys and my teammates, and representing my family.

  

  Antonio Brown
  • Work
  • Great
  • Family

• When I was in high school in England, I wasn't sure that you could have a career in fashion. In those days, there were very few fashion magazines. I didn't realize there was a school where you could go and learn how to make clothes and design. I thought you just had to be discovered somewhere, like a film.

  

  Maria Cornejo
  • School
  • High
  • Career

• I guess there might come a point when I will want to live an anonymous life. I'm only at the start of my career, so I'm sure that moment will come, but I know how blessed I am to have this platform on which to speak and influence.

  

  Kimbra Lee Johnson
  • Life
  • Live
  • Career

• Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that make us fall for someone, love someone even more, leave someone.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • People
  • Love
  • For Her

• I love people that go the distance. I hate things that are lukewarm. They've got to be one way or the other and go all the way.

  

  Keala Settle
  • People
  • Hate
  • Distance

• We cannot make up for failure in our devotional life by redoubling energy in service. We shall never take people beyond our own spiritual attainment.

  

  William Griffith Thomas
  • People
  • Christian
  • Ministry

• I was extremely shy, but since college, I think I have opened up and gained confidence. I find it much easier to make friends, I let myself go a bit more.

  

  Dan Amboyer
  • Up
  • Friends
  • College

• That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Happy
  • Feel
  • Guilty

• I was a girl and became a woman. Something about having the freedom at home to be in the position I wanted, to have the people I wanted, was empowering.

  

  Ricki Lake
  • People
  • Something
  • Position