Beverly Jenkins Quotes

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• I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Change
  • Day

• There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Cooking
  • Breakfast

• Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Good
  • Power
  • Idea

• I love that I'm rarely recognized. I like it because I know I can look different from film to film.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Know
  • Like
  • Look

• Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Falling

• Cooking allows you to have travels, adventures and journeys without going anywhere. The running joke between my partner and me is that I'm not really concerned about how long it takes, or how much I destroy the kitchen, because I just have such a good time doing it.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Act
  • Puppets
  • Toy

• The level of dynamism is a matter of how fertile the country is in coming up with innovative ideas having prospects of profitability, how adept it is at identifying and nourishing the ideas with the best prospects, and how prepared it is in evaluating and trying out the new products and methods that are launched onto the market.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Up
  • Country
  • Trying

• Good men must not obey the laws too well.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Men
  • Good Men

• I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.'

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • History
  • Political
  • Dark

• I... now see a rare opportunity to push across the goal line much of the unfinished business of America: investing in our infrastructure and workers, universal healthcare, comprehensive immigration reform and scrubbing a tax code that's out of shape and behind the times.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Business
  • America
  • Opportunity

• Things have changed. Now it's not the outward appearance, it's the inward man that I'm trying to change. And that's the message I bring to the people.

  

  Vanity
  • People
  • Trying
  • Man

• Enjoy every moment: you never know when things might change.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Change
  • Enjoy
  • Moment

• A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • Music
  • Song
  • Like

• There are some jobs where you think, 'There's no way! This would be too, too good. The universe would love me too much were it to actually happen.'

  

  Caitlin Fitzgerald
  • Good
  • Way
  • Universe

• I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Success
  • Hate
  • Failure

• My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Energy
  • Singing
  • Living

• Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Life
  • Love
  • Understanding

• I barely got out of high school, and I look back at my life often and go, 'Wow, this was awesome!

  

  Jamie Lee Curtis
  • School
  • My Life
  • Awesome

• In the American South, where I live, Christianity is very much about the Bible. Most Christians come from churches that preach the Bible, teach the Bible, adhere (they claim) to the Bible. It is almost “common sense” among many Christians in this part of the world that if you don’t believe in the Bible you cannot be a Christian. Most Christians in other parts of the world—in fact, the vast majority of Christians throughout the history of the church—would find that common sense to be nonsense.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Church
  • Bible
  • Teach

• If there is violence, it will certainly be crushed because violence can only end in a disgraceful rout.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Crushed
  • Rout

• Every day is a gift -- start unwrapping them.

  

  Beverly Jenkins
  • Gift
  • Unwrapping