Rita Moreno Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
-
I do not have bad days. I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS. I don't dream bad dreams about it. If I did, I'd be giving in to the negativity.
-
Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
-
I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
-
I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
-
Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
-
Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.
-
Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
-
'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.
-
I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.
-
You can't take good health for granted.
-
If children have an interest in nature, they will understand. I want them to become people who appreciate the consequences the next generation will suffer if we destroy our natural surroundings. So without a doubt, they need to learn that nature is vital to us by experiencing it. I want them to like nature and to climb mountains and so on.
-
It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.
-
I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.
-
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
-
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
-
I had no idea 'The Dream Weaver' would be so successful. Everything just fell into place with that album. I pioneered a number of ideas with that album and subsequent tour. The all-keyboard approach with no guitars was a new one, and I was one of the first to use a drum machine in concert. It was an amazing time.
-
Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.
-
Everything I do references something that influenced me.
-
Most of her participation in the United Nations, which [??] history, as I say, I don't take too seriously, because I know how that UN operation works, and it is essentially a facade in which the work is done back in Washington and in the capitals involved, and the people up front are just going through the motions.
-
I look forward to standing shoulder to shoulder with Speaker Boehner, Leader Cantor, Whip McCarthy and the entire republican conference as we repeal Obamacare, fight rampant job killing regulations, cut spending and help put folks back to work.
-
Back in the '90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.
-
I always tell my mom that if she would have just bought me a Barbie when I was little, I would have gone into real estate.
-
I'm one of the most joyous people I've ever met.
