Lauren Bacall Quotes

...badly, playing the Missouri Waltz, or something.

Lauren Bacall

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• Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Fall
  • Actors
  • Directors

• The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Children
  • Family
  • Death

• Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Health
  • Service
  • U.S.

• Gooseberries aren't just for creamy desserts and pies.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Just
  • Desserts

• I grew up in a family business... that really has provided the core of my belief in American small business, and in America's ability to grow and operate important businesses that can compete and be successful.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Up
  • Important
  • Family

• Even in real life, sometimes you find that person you click with that you get irritated by every other person in the world but you can be around this person every day and you'd be fine with it.

  

  Damon Wayans, Jr.
  • Life
  • World
  • Real

• I love what Drake does, but I don't want to be called the Drake of country.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Country
  • Love
  • Want

• I've had four children and I've done a good job and I'm happy in life.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Life
  • Good
  • Children

• Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Country
  • Style
  • Vision

• Growing new limbs, copying internal organs like a Xerox machine, exponential increases in computing power, better eyes and ears - I could read stories like this endlessly.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Power
  • Growing
  • Eyes

• But I don't think I've grown up to be a damaged adult.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Up
  • Think
  • Adult

• A King, by disallowing Acts of this salutary nature, from being the father of his people, degenerated into a Tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • People
  • Nature
  • Father

• As far as is possible under the ruthless tyranny the organized labor of Soviet Russia is everywhere in a state of full revolt.

  

  Samuel Gompers

• Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it takes, but also by what it gives. And powerlessness reaffirmed not just by the helplessness of those who have lost, but also by the gratitude of those who have (or think they have) gained.

  

  Arundhati Roy
  • Power
  • Lost
  • Gratitude

• Will an Iraq war make our Al Qaeda problem worse? Not likely.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • War

• I'd love to do a drama.

  

  Jason Sudeikis
  • Drama

• I never wear the same shoe twice.

  

  Deion Sanders

• All I ever wanted was to be a sexy bride, and actually, I think I've turned into a romantic bride.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Romantic
  • Sexy

• Above anything, welcome silence, for it brings fruits that no tongue can speak of, neither can it be explained.

  

  Isaac of Nineveh
  • Silence
  • Speak
  • Explained

• I'd like to stay in Chicago, but if they don't want me, somebody will.

  

  Jake Arrieta
  • Chicago

• Toothaches afflict those who have no compassion for animals.

  

  Nachman of Breslov
  • Compassion

• Even though it's a shortened format of the game, Twenty20 allows people with different skills to play in a team and play their specific roles. Obviously there's not too much time to waste balls, but if you look at guys who play well in the top six, they have a fairly decent amount of good cricketing ability.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Salvation is one of the Bible's great words, but many don't understand that the Bible presents salvation in three stages. Many people consider salvation a one-time, past event. They forget its ongoing nature.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• ...badly, playing the Missouri Waltz, or something.

  

  Lauren Bacall