Zooey Deschanel Quotes

People sometimes say, 'Oh, you were a movie star,' and I'm like, 'No, I was a supporting actress.' I wasn't an A-list actress, and I'm fine with that. I'm proud of what I did in film.

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• My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Action

• Every ghetto you go to, Latinos and blacks are the two people that are together. We don't look at each other in any different way, like 'He's black; I'm Latino.' I look at us as one.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Different
  • Together

• One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Movie
  • Crazy
  • Best

• It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Silly
  • Alive

• I'm so tired of this vision of fashion of a diva with a big ego, and you think of big dark glasses to be pretentious and keep far away from the people.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Dark

• I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • American
  • Attention
  • Star

• Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• I have always said that everyone is in sales. Maybe you don't hold the title of salesperson, but if the business you are in requires you to deal with people, you, my friend, are in sales.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Business
  • Friend

• I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Music
  • Love

• I didn't know Albert back then - I just learned to play that way. He and I were the only guys that played left-handed. Then left-handed people came from every direction.

  

  Otis Rush
  • People
  • Know
  • Play

• In America, people buy cars, and they put very little money down. They get a car, and they go to work. The work pays them a salary; the salary allows them to pay for the car over time. The car pays for itself.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• But probably this is helps to win, to win, to gold, more gold medals, and to win most my important medal, heart of people. This is most important for me.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • People
  • Important
  • Heart

• We have people around the world who live in the United States, and these people don't deserve to be called traitors.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• In boxing, there are no bad guys or good guys. Just people trying to make a living and trying to live up to their pride and to try to become someone.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I've improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still bad but I feel a little bit better now than before.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • People
  • Bad
  • English

• It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • People
  • Children
  • True

• Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • People
  • Love
  • Kids

• I remember going down the tunnel into the Olympic Stadium and getting a glimpse of all the people and hearing all the noise, all the people shouting for us. I'd seen Usain Bolt on the warm-up track, and then, as I walked into the stadium, I sort of realised how big it was!

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • People
  • Up
  • Remember

• The high-flying rhetoric of 'Making America Great Again' frankly appeals to me. It appeals to many people. But you've got to back that up with substance, and you've got to quit offending people who may not agree with you.

  

  Jeff Fortenberry
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• The denunciation and smearing of truly gifted people like Rodriguez—people the Chicano community should be proud of—by the self-appointed gatekeepers of Chicano Studies is, alas, an everyday spectacle. Did anyone in the Chicano Studies community even take note when Dana Gioia, who is one of the best poets of his generation and happens to be half Mexican American, was named chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts in 2002? No, because he made it on his merits and not by being a victimization hustler.

  

  Bruce Bawer
  • People
  • Denunciation
  • Rodriguez

• At some point early on, I realized that three of the greatest speeches ever delivered were by Winston Churchill, and they were written and delivered within a four-week period of each other.

  

  Anthony McCarten
  • Period

• I feel like you are allowed in fiction to embrace imagination and try to enter other worlds. And I feel like you should push yourself to try to persuade your reader that you have the authority to engage with people who, you know, lived in the past, who live in the future, other genders, other places, other cultures.

  

  Anthony Doerr
  • People
  • Live
  • Future

• People sometimes say, 'Oh, you were a movie star,' and I'm like, 'No, I was a supporting actress.' I wasn't an A-list actress, and I'm fine with that. I'm proud of what I did in film.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Movie
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