Rita Moreno Quotes

You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special.

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• I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Art
  • Perfect
  • Knowing

• And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.

  

  Irving Langmuir
  • Literature
  • Heights

• Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Science
  • Freedom
  • Progress

• I don't have kids, but I know that you want them to follow their dreams, while at the same time, you don't want them to be sitting around, hoping that dream is just going to come. I'm sure that's hard to tell your kids.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Dream

• There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • Limitations
  • Except

• We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Time
  • Joy

• The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Winning
  • Better
  • Losing

• I was just lucky I lived in this time of mass-market paperbacks.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Time
  • Lucky
  • Just

• I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Gay
  • Politics
  • Late

• It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • People
  • Good
  • Important

• The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • World
  • Generation
  • Walk

• I probably dreamt about running off to America or something when I was 16 because it just seemed like I was studying algebra and going, 'What am I going to use this for?'

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • America
  • Running
  • Like

• I would say I am an amateur guitarist.

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • Guitarist
  • Amateur

• In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required to make it, and the greater the number of different minds which assisted in its development.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• There is the GIS world that is largely managing authoritative data sources, supporting geocentric workflows like fixing roads, making cities more livable through better planning, environmental management, forest management, drilling in the right location for oil, managing assets and utilities.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • World
  • Management
  • Planning

• I think people desperately want to feel love.

  

  Gary Chapman
  • People
  • Love
  • Think

• Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • People
  • Government
  • Acceptance

• I don't program or code or anything like that.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Like
  • Anything
  • Code

• None of us start out strong ... And none of us have the exact same strengths.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Strong
  • Start
  • Strengths

• Here's the deal: You can't go in with the intent that, 'All right, we're gonna write another 'Free Bird' or 'What's Your Name.'' You can't think about it in those terms, because you'll never outdo your history.

  

  Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Write
  • Deal
  • Freebird

• Everybody has their own story - it's who you are. If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am!

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Story

• My studio works in cycles. I am consistent with all of the practices, but I give attention to one part for a certain amount of time. I say, "Okay, I'm making performances," and sometimes that means I can't be making photographic works. As I'm maturing as an artist, years have passed and I feel that I'm becoming a better craftsperson in multiple fields, but that takes time. Also, because I trained as an actor, I hold this thing about how an actor prepares and therefore I try to prepare for all of my tasks.

  

  Xaviera Simmons
  • Studio
  • Performances
  • Photographic Works

• You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special.

  

  Rita Moreno
  • Special
  • Performances
  • Oscars