Alan Cranston Quotes

I don't feel any need for redemption. I'm satisfied with what I did in the Senate. I don't look back. I look forward.

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• Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Reading
  • Imagination
  • Creative

• To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • People
  • Different
  • Want

• There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • Want
  • Me
  • Film

• We just want to see entertaining, exciting games, and we want the officials to do a good job.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Good
  • Job
  • Want

• This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Never
  • Beauty
  • Something

• We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • Culture
  • Worry
  • Something

• I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Always
  • Years
  • Television

• I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out, and then you can be funny.

  

  Larry David
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Think

• I love seafood. Whenever I'm in Las Vegas, I love going to the Bellagio buffet because they have these great king crab legs.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Great
  • Love
  • King

• It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • People
  • Children
  • She

• History is replete with examples of moments in time when we talk about deficit reduction and try to advance on it around the world, that is, where it leads to job losses, not job creation.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Time
  • World
  • Job

• In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • World
  • Modern

• I feel I belong in the movie business and I belong in the security business. It's a natural for me.

  

  Sam J. Jones
  • Business
  • Movie
  • Feel

• My husband is always telling me I need to do less, do less, do less. But I feel like if I'm not being productive, I have a hard time relaxing and enjoying myself.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Husband

• Women inspire me. Women in the airports, around the country in different cities, destinations around the world, inspire me with the way they express their individuality. I love watching women and discovering all the ways each person uses a color, pattern, a style, even a lipstick color. I'm a people watcher.

  

  Camila Alves
  • World
  • Women
  • Style

• Paris is mostly retired people - I love it, and it's a beautiful city, but it's quite slow.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • City

• I learned what looked good on my petite frame, and to this day, I'm a great bargain shopper.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • Good
  • Great
  • Day

• You just have to try and keep on grinding and hope that things will turn around eventually.

  

  Annika Sorenstam
  • Hope
  • Try
  • Turn

• I am very much into politics, but what interests me is sacred principles applied to that area. I am interested in the intersection of the Spiritual and the political - how spiritual principles apply to the social and political issues of our day. For me, the spiritual realm, is a more powerful place to speak from on those issues.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Political
  • Powerful
  • Spiritual

• I encourage all novelists to move to TV right now, that is the way to go. I was living in New York working at a bank as a day job about seven years ago. I was writing novels at night and decided, "Wow, there's so much great TV, and they're telling the complex, interesting, psychologically nuanced stories that, as a novelist, you dream of telling. And it's a healthy, exciting, thriving medium - that's where I need to be."

  

  Nick Antosca
  • Writing
  • Dream
  • Night

• If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

  

  Anne Bronte
  • Home
  • Mother
  • Slaving

• I don't feel any need for redemption. I'm satisfied with what I did in the Senate. I don't look back. I look forward.

  

  Alan Cranston
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  • Senate
  • Redemption