Erin Brockovich Quotes

I do care a great deal about the environment but my real work and my greatest challenge is trying to overcome deceits that end up jeopardizing public health and safety.

Erin Brockovich

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• Through every victory and every setback, I've insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn't meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.

  

  Barack Obama
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  • Victory

• I am constantly accused of being 'First World.' So what should I do? I can't apologise for my environment, upbringing, aesthetic.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Environment
  • Aesthetic
  • Accused

• I'm not going to get into the writer's skills or what he was trying to portray because that's not fair. I can only say what I felt was trying to be portrayed there.

  

  Taylor Dane
  • Trying
  • I Can
  • Skills

• When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

  

  Barry Lopez
  • Trying
  • Belief
  • I Can

• Marketing is more important than it has ever been. But I'm trying to tear the layers back and make it not so contrived. I think people just want entertainment.

  

  Usher
  • People
  • Important
  • Trying

• When I used to go to Elvis's house was always a nightmare trying to get into the house because of so many fans outside the gate and he really couldn't go anywhere without sneaking in or doing something because people just wanted to be around him and to be with him.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • People
  • Trying
  • House

• There's been a significant amount of Israelis who are joining my party because they think that Israel has to have a tough stance in this crazy environment called the Middle East.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Party
  • Crazy
  • Environment

• I like conflict - someone who challenges me, someone who I can look up to, someone who can keep me in check. Love has to be extraordinary; otherwise, there's no point in it. I just haven't met anyone who's made me feel that way.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Challenges

• In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in good health to make money.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • People
  • Good
  • Money

• Spend hundreds of millions; talk endlessly about issues; present 12-point plans for education, the economy, and the environment. But in the end, the election of our next president can turn on a gaffe.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Education
  • Present
  • Environment

• Trying to make a living from poetry is like putting chains on butterfly wings.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Trying
  • Poetry
  • Butterfly

• If you're filming a scene on horseback, if you're trying to control an animal that's much larger than you and trying to get it to do the exact same thing so you can match things up, that can get tricky, especially if the horse gets tired or angry or something.

  

  Daniel Portman
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Control

• Evictions cause job loss. Because it's such a destabilizing, stressful event, they lose their footing in the labor market. It has big impacts on people's health, especially mental health.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • People
  • Job
  • Health

• My 20s were a time where I made it; my 30s were when I was away, confused, and trying to figure it all out.

  

  Pauly Shore
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Confused

• And so to those who suggest that we are somehow 'harming' young women by encouraging them to take charge of their health we say this: We are not harming young women by educating them. We are arming them with information that they will carry with them throughout their lives.

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • Women
  • Health
  • Encouraging

• It's been crazy trying to tour with a baby. But it's actually working out okay.

  

  Caroline Corr
  • Trying
  • Crazy
  • Baby

• It took me ten years to write a proper story. I floundered about trying to shape something, counting on the 'feeling' I had as I wrote, only to discover upon rereading my work that the feeling had disappeared, and what remained was an empty shell.

  

  David Bergen
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Feeling

• Don't be irresponsible in your risks, but as long as the project can fail without it causing the person to fail, keep trying; keep taking the best shots. Learn from them; pick yourself up.

  

  Dean Kamen
  • Up
  • Long
  • Trying

• Had I not gone to Japan in 1986, had I stayed home and majored in English literature as I'd intended to do, I might indeed have become an investment banker, an outcome that perhaps would have proved a more severe blow to the health of the U.S. economy than to the history of the novel.

  

  John Burnham Schwartz
  • Home
  • History
  • Health

• I'd like to be out in the city every day, listening to what people are saying and asking about what they need. I'd like to inspire others by doing as much as I can to help people who are trying to make a better life for themselves and others.

  

  Chirlane McCray
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Great

• When I left college, I was out of work for three years. I had this dream of being on 'SNL,' and that was all I could imagine.

  

  Josh Gad
  • Dream
  • College
  • Years

• I do care a great deal about the environment but my real work and my greatest challenge is trying to overcome deceits that end up jeopardizing public health and safety.

  

  Erin Brockovich
  • Trying
  • Health
  • Environment