Alan Ladd Quotes

What good will a tax break do me if I'm crippled for life?

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• (A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Forever
  • Between
  • Secretary

• After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.

  

  Barney Ross
  • War
  • Rest
  • Surrender

• In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • Today
  • Democracy

• My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • People
  • Time
  • Best

• You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Trying
  • Kids
  • Positive

• When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Love
  • Process

• Making music is fantastic.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Music
  • Making
  • Fantastic

• The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Together

• One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Know
  • Attention
  • Chaos

• I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • School
  • Love
  • Sports

• Clearly, humans will always have a role to play in emergency response for law enforcement. But if there's an emergency, if there's a 911 call, the question is, do you want a human dashing off to respond to it right away?

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Law
  • Question
  • Play

• I've done tons of Debbie Allen musicals. I was a dancer in 'Glee,' and I was a Laker girl for three months.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Done
  • Girl
  • Three

• I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • People
  • Up
  • Singing

• My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Career
  • Playing
  • Go

• Growing up, I had a terrible pudding-bowl haircut. I used to cut it myself, and I'd sew my own clothing, too. I looked a little strange compared to the other kids. But the thing was, I felt I looked amazing, so what other people thought never bothered me.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Kids
  • Amazing
  • Strange

• I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • World
  • Always
  • Her

• Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs can be provided for.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Focus
  • Needs
  • Even

• I can't learn in school, but I can learn from somebody who I think is cool and great.

  

  Jimmy Iovine
  • Great
  • School
  • Cool

• My furniture, boxes, and turnings are simple, practical designs for everyday use. I love the grain and beauty of wood. Each piece of lumber is a work of art, after all, and I'd like to honor that gift and pass it on for someone else to appreciate.

  

  Steve Miller The Steve Miller Band
  • Work
  • Art
  • Beauty

• In the Bible it says God has made everything good for man to eat and to wear their skins. Whenever we eat beef, we eat chicken, we have to kill to eat. But at the same time, hunting is a sport. I think it is a great sport... I would say most hunters are Christian men.

  

  Luke Scott
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• I've had very good meetings with Unionist leaders, Democratic Unionist Party, Ian Paisley and his team.

  

  Peter Hain
  • Good
  • Team
  • Party

• Remember that you are always exactly where you need to be, experiencing what you need to experience so that you can learn what you must learn in order to become the person you need to be to create everything you want for your life. Always.

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Experience

• What good will a tax break do me if I'm crippled for life?

  

  Alan Ladd
  • Life
  • Good