Rita Moreno Quotes

C'mon, we're actors. We love the attention. We love the applause. We sure don't like to be rejected.

Rita Moreno

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• Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Health
  • Serious
  • Gun

• The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon, it's that sense of failure that's built into a system that assures everyone they can make it to the top, but then reserves the top for only a tiny fraction of the strivers.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Party
  • Failure

• Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.

  

  Larry J. Sabato
  • American
  • Party
  • System

• I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Myself
  • Artist
  • Musician

• A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Culture
  • Ideas
  • Moment

• The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Power
  • Control
  • Alone

• When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Moving
  • Look
  • September

• If you can believe it, I had no intentions of being a wrestler.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Believe
  • You
  • Intentions

• I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Think
  • Golf
  • Beach

• I think what made John Lennon so exciting as an artist is that, like Dylan and other musicians with a truly important musical legacy, he had several faces, personas that changed over time as he developed.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Time
  • Important
  • Legacy

• In papergaming, players can look at a character sheet of their own creation and see all of their skills, right there, in black and white.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Character
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• I honestly think that kids should not exercise: they should keep fit through play. The most important age is zero to seven, both for the kid and the parent - for parents, because this is the time when your kid learns how to walk, talk and other behaviour.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Time
  • Important
  • Kids

• Sometimes when Australians go overseas, it's as though the 'Aussie' is refined out of them. I don't know why. It's never happened to me, because I'm really proud of it. I'm not embarrassed about where I'm from or who I am any more. I know who I am. I don't fit in everywhere, but I know where I do fit in.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Proud
  • Australians
  • Aussie

• We need to make more original movies, and audiences would do well to support original movies for the future of the medium.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Future
  • Support
  • Movies

• At night I wake up and think, What color will make me feel better when I soak in the bathtub for an hour? I want everyone who's dreaming of a glamorous life to know that I'd trade a good bath any day for the heels, the hair, the makeup, the tight dresses, the photographs, the small talk.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

  

  Claire Tomalin

• Trust is built with consistency.

  

  Lincoln Chafee
  • Trust
  • Consistency

• I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin color.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Men
  • Proud
  • Color

• If I am going somewhere exotic, I take an empty suitcase with me to bring back the objects I fall in love with.

  

  Alain Ducasse
  • Fall

• Do I think police chiefs, many of which are African-American or Hispanic, wake up and say, 'Let's systemically oppress African-American communities?' No, I don't. Are there instances in which that happens? I'm sure there are.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • Up
  • American
  • Police

• A lot of times we base everything just on our immediate circumstance. We don't see a big picture for our lives. We don't love ourselves. We don't have a way of kind of gauging the future, so we count it lost.

  

  Jennifer Holliday
  • Future
  • Lost
  • Picture

• When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Life
  • School
  • Education

• After the demise of the Soviet Union, we had many problems of our own for which no one was responsible but ourselves: the economic downfall, the collapse of the welfare system, the separatism, and of course the terror attacks that shook our country. In this respect, we do not have to look for guilty parties abroad.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Country
  • Party
  • Problem

• C'mon, we're actors. We love the attention. We love the applause. We sure don't like to be rejected.

  

  Rita Moreno
  • Attention
  • Actors
  • Rejected