Bea Arthur Quotes

I'm 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice, and I have a way with a line. What can I do about it? I can't stay home waiting for something different. I think it's a total waste of energy worrying about typecasting.

Bea Arthur

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• I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Art
  • Moment
  • Immature

• I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Long
  • Art
  • Remember

• I don't think I'm anti-Israeli.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Think

• When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Music
  • Live
  • Best

• I had to have shoulder reconstruction.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Shoulder
  • Reconstruction

• Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.

  

  Fernand Braudel
  • Life
  • May
  • History

• I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • People
  • Me
  • Years

• I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Want
  • Rock
  • Seem

• A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • High
  • Individual
  • Industry

• I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.

  

  Iman
  • Woman
  • Look
  • White

• Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Attention
  • Boy
  • Flattery

• Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

  

  Sallust
  • Feelings
  • Tears
  • Word

• Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Hero
  • Loved
  • Him

• I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Security
  • Social
  • Original

• I really think that it's disgusting that Paris is the only place where it is illegal for paps to follow you around. It actually took someone losing their life - Diana, an inspirational woman - and then it changed, but they still won't change it in London! It's horrible!

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Life
  • Change
  • inspirational

• Kids are naturally gifted at art from a very young age. The problem is when they get older and become self-conscious. The process should always be fun, though.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Art
  • Kids
  • Fun

• You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • You
  • Pain
  • Right

• I've decided to recast myself as Utopian. I like this landscape of the M25 and Heathrow. I like airfreight offices and rent-a-car bureaus. I like dual carriageways. When I see a CCTV camera, I know I'm safe.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Car

• I really like the whole urban farming idea, because I grow my own produce in L.A., and I think it's great to teach people here in Manhattan so they can do the same.

  

  Jamie-Lynn Sigler
  • People
  • Great

• Basically, I come to Washington a couple of times a year, sort of on a strictly business basis: talk to my counterparts at the Federal Trade Commission, of the DOJ, give an occasional talk, very often in a lawyer or academic environment.

  

  Margrethe Vestager
  • Business
  • Environment
  • Couple

• Everyone's struggle is different. Just because I wasn't struggling on the streets, it doesn't mean I don't know what it's like to struggle.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Different
  • Know
  • Struggle

• My tendency as an actor is, when there's a certain energy, I feel a challenge to match it, to come up to that plate and play on the same level.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Play

• Everybody wants to find their soul mate, and I'm no different. That's definitely what I want in the future.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Different
  • Soul
  • Future

• I'm 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice, and I have a way with a line. What can I do about it? I can't stay home waiting for something different. I think it's a total waste of energy worrying about typecasting.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Different
  • Home
  • Energy