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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• 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
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• 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

• I spend as much time with my kids as any mom who stays home. I only work during the hours they're at school, but there is always the sense of trying to catch up with all their stuff and not only organize my work life but also their school lives.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

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

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Trying
  • Poetry
  • Butterfly

• Bitch, I ain't no fucking G, I'm a cannibal! I ain't trying to shoot you, I'm trying to chop you into pieces and eat you!

  

  Eminem
  • Trying

• 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

• The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced.

  

  Elon Musk
  • True
  • Reality
  • Environment

• One of my mentors was Patricia Schroeder, and one night she came to me on the floor and she said to me, "Why are we sitting in Congress, when a lot of women would try to do it and couldn't? Why are we here and others aren't?" And I thought back and said it was because my father believed in me and she said the same thing, she said her father believed in her and thought she could do anything.

  

  Carolyn Maloney
  • Trying
  • Father
  • Night

• I haven't left modeling completely; I just took a step out, and I now have the rare luxury of picking and choosing how to spend my days.

  

  Christy Turlington

• Designing a collection with Aeropostale was completely surreal.

  

  Nash Grier
  • Collection
  • Surreal

• Matisse draws what I call the essence of the plants. He leaves a shape open. He'll do a leaf and not close it. Everybody used to say, oh, I got it all from Matisse, and I said, 'Not really.'

  

  Ellsworth Kelly

• 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