Leah Remini Quotes

I always felt like I was kind of an outsider because I didn't have the right things. I didn't have a Cadillac. I didn't have, you know, plastic on my furniture. That was the right way to be if you were Italian.

Leah Remini

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• Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • You
  • Kind
  • Technology

• My biggest goal in life will be achieved when I have a family, when I have my own kids that I can raise myself and bring up based on what I know. I always think it's the wildest idea - raising a whole, entire human is insane to me, and I've always wanted kids.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Class
  • Most
  • Marine

• We've always believed in our music.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Always
  • Our

• Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• If you have a passion and love for something, it's hard to give it up. I had jobs where the people were helpful and let me go to auditions, and I'd make up the hours another day. I was lucky in that respect: I could afford to get to London.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • People
  • Respect
  • Passion

• This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We know this thanks to a series of careful studies of the problem conducted in the depths of the 1930s Great Depression.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Great
  • Long
  • Depression

• What the Republicans have said is rather than touch one hair on the heads of the wealthiest people in our country, people who make over $1 million a year, they're saying, 'Seniors should pay $6,000 more dollars a year. But please don't let us ask the wealthiest to do their fair share.'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Country
  • Hair

• I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Small
  • Just
  • Other

• I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Great
  • Song
  • Day

• I think there's a part of a woman that wants to be the thing that breaks a man down.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Think
  • Man
  • Woman

• Putting people before profits is how we've tried to operate from the beginning.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • People
  • Beginning
  • Before

• Our entire brand is about transparency. We want that data out there because you know what? If you are only getting one in three messages replied to, you're normal. You're right there in the middle of everything with everyone else.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Brand
  • Data
  • Transparency

• I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Difficult
  • Kid
  • Arts

• We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

  

  Alan Perlis
  • Thoughts

• If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the consequences of that are not good.

  

  Eric Braeden
  • Good
  • Children
  • Home

• The great thing about America, what I've loved about it, is how sports-friendly it is. In America, sports are respected and loved.

  

  Eric Braeden
  • Great
  • America
  • Sports

• Humans and nations are imperfect, and through our collective efforts, we hope to improve our nation and bring hope and opportunity to millions who lack it.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Hope
  • Opportunity

• Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Life
  • Good
  • Home

• In America most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.

  

  Al Pacino
  • America
  • Italian
  • Sicilian

• When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.

  

  Al Pacino
  • People
  • She
  • Italian

• Italian women or French women are no more sexy than American women and English women. This is a myth, invented by Hollywood producers, who invite foreign stars to star in the cinema.

  

  Ornella Muti
  • American
  • Stars
  • Italian

• For me, music gives a voice to fashion.

  

  Donatella Versace
  • Music
  • Fashion

• I always felt like I was kind of an outsider because I didn't have the right things. I didn't have a Cadillac. I didn't have, you know, plastic on my furniture. That was the right way to be if you were Italian.

  

  Leah Remini
  • Italian