Zooey Deschanel Quotes

Don't look back all you'll ever get is the dust from the steps before I don't have to see you every day, but I just want to know youre there

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• A waning United States would likely be more nationalistic, more defensive about its national identity, more paranoid about its homeland security, and less willing to sacrifice resources for the sake of others' development.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Identity
  • Sacrifice
  • Security

• I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Different
  • Long

• I reject the insurance model. I think we should have a free-market approach to healthcare.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • Free
  • Model

• I am a common man. Why do I need security?

  

  Kariya Munda
  • Man
  • Security

• I was an animator for a while early on, but a 2D animator.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Early
  • While
  • Animator

• In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.

  

  Gayle Gardner
  • Think
  • You
  • End

• Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Art
  • Technology
  • Imagination

• If I've learned anything in my career, it's that nothing worthwhile in life comes easy. That's just the way it is.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Life
  • Career
  • Easy

• Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Once

• I was a big fan of Super Troopers, so working with the Broken Lizard guys was so much fun.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Fun
  • Broken
  • Working

• When I look back, I can say that the summer when I was 19 was a formative time for me. But at the time I just thought I was making tofu every night for dinner and going to work.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Night

• America is unique in the world. If you don't believe that, just ask someone from another country.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • World
  • Believe
  • Country

• Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Life
  • World
  • Real

• I love New York, I love the smell of New York... I love the subway.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • New York
  • Smell
  • Subway

• If an alien race lands on the planet Earth tomorrow and asks me to prove I'm really here, what do I do? What do I give them? What do I tell them? What do I show them? I can't sing or dance. I can't paint. I've never built anything, and I've never contributed anything significant to the human race.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Earth
  • Dance
  • Tomorrow

• Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Career
  • Actor
  • Early

• I feel like the better version of myself is on paper... I'd rather have people know me on paper.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Myself
  • Better

• I've probably put my 10,000 hours into writing, but I believe writing well is also greatly influenced by certain intangibles like mood and inspiration.

  

  Bill Loguidice
  • Writing
  • Inspiration
  • Mood

• The characters I've played that people have noticed included a cross-dresser and a transsexual.

  

  Katherine Moennig
  • People

• There are now more teens going into treatment for marijuana dependency than for all other drugs combined.

  

  John Walters
  • Marijuana

• Thank you to the readers of the 'Huffington Post' for voting me the 'Hottest Freshman' of the 111th Congress. It's about time politicians from Illinois were known for something other than bad haircuts or having the ability to walk on water.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Water

• How to describe the excitement I felt when I saw this beautiful work and realized its potential? I guess it's like when, after a long journey, suddenly a mountain peak comes in full view. You catch your breath, take in its majestic beauty, and all you can say is "Wow!" It's the moment of revelation. You have not yet reached the summit, you don't even know yet what obstacles lie ahead, but its allure is irresistible, and you already imagine yourself at the top. It's yours to conquer now. But do you have the strength and stamina to do it?

  

  Edward Frenkel
  • Work
  • Journey
  • Beauty

• Don't look back all you'll ever get is the dust from the steps before I don't have to see you every day, but I just want to know youre there

  

  Zooey Deschanel