Erin Brockovich Quotes

Each disaster became a steppingstone for growth.

Erin Brockovich

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• It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to renounce the most fundamental American values, which, after all, are also universal values.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Important
  • American
  • Values

• I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Employ
  • Nobel

• Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Life
  • Better

• I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle.

  

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  • Hit
  • Elephant
  • Bull

• My mom and I are very close.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Mom
  • Very
  • Close

• The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Law
  • Government
  • Foundation

• When I paint, I definitely live in the present, like someone in a shower whistling or singing.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Live
  • Present
  • Singing

• Who does understand life?

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Understand
  • Does

• I know 'Vikings' isn't really based in magic, but it goes back to Old World spirituality and different religions, and a lot of voodoo.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • World
  • Different
  • Know

• We always felt that there was some hanky-panky going on with our money. We were the No. 1 group in the world, but we weren't paid like that.

  

  Dennis Edwards The Temptations
  • World
  • Money

• 'Phantom' was for me an interesting technique of telling the story. You have one voice that it is in the present telling what is happening, and then there's one voice from the past that's also driving the story forward. And you know that the two story lines will meet eventually.

  

  Jo Nesbo
  • Past
  • Interesting
  • Present

• I love Maje, Rick Owens, Helmut Lang, Christopher Kane, Felder + Felder, and Sam Edelman shoes.

  

  Amber Le Bon
  • Shoes

• Oh heck yeah, I totally would love to have a Phantom Dennis in real life.

  

  Charisma Carpenter
  • Life
  • Real

• I sang in English my whole life; I just happened to decide that I had a passion for Latin music, and I wanted to jump into Latin music first.

  

  Prince Royce
  • Life
  • Music
  • Passion

• It's definitely part of my job description not to be too fat.

  

  Elizabeth Hurley
  • Job

• I like people. That's me. I like people on the street, and I also happen to like other people who have power. But I'll go to a party and realise I haven't spoken to anybody who can do anything for me.

  

  John Polson
  • People
  • Power
  • Party

• Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process or an abstract image or an internal monologue, none of which works on screen.

  

  David Nicholls
  • People
  • Good
  • Writing

• It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate.

  

  Peter Krause

• I have never heard a dancer asking for advice about how to stay focused on her footwork, or a painter complaining about the dull day-to-day task of painting. What task worth doing isn't worth daily effort? Do you think Michelangelo was having fun the whole time he was on his back painting the Sistine Chapel's ceiling?

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Effort

• Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

  

  Sallust
  • Men
  • Desire
  • Wish

• Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Career
  • Wish

• Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

  

  Clara Barton
  • Up
  • May
  • Growth

• There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.

  

  Reinhold Niebuhr
  • Important
  • Growth
  • Answers

• Each disaster became a steppingstone for growth.

  

  Erin Brockovich
  • Growth
  • Disaster