Alan Ruck Quotes

Nobody's ever gonna accuse me of being a singer, but I can sing.

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• Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Faith
  • Being
  • Without

• Fashion and interior design are one and the same.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Fashion
  • Design
  • Same

• We've seen what happens when it serves a president's interest to flaunt his faith - which is almost inevitably does, since every poll affirms that Americans want their leader to submit to some higher power.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Faith
  • Leader

• Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Women
  • Children
  • Help

• As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Believe
  • America
  • Responsibility

• I contribute my best in my sport and I also have a ton of respect for myself and my family.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Family
  • Respect
  • Best

• When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Character
  • Hair

• I get up every single day trying to repay a debt that I can never repay. Never. And I will work hard. Because I don't know why I was saved. I don't know.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Up
  • Work
  • Trying

• I don't want to do things because it will please other people. I'm not doing this to get fame or any attention. I try to be selective about who I get advice from. I would like to contribute to the art world, but, you know, you can't plan these things.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• In addition to being the most beautiful score I have ever sung, 'Piazza' gave me the opportunity to honor the matriarchs of my Southern family.

  

  Victoria Clark
  • Family
  • Beautiful
  • Opportunity

• It's like, backstage at 'SNL,' like, if you come back after a show or something, or a lot of times even at the after-parties, we're just pretty tired and like, 'Hey, what's up.' Just getting a drink and kind of chilling out. Nothing crazy.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Kind

• The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Man
  • Dog
  • Medical

• But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity.

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Experiences
  • Generations
  • Necessity

• I acquiesced in this on the grounds that the most anyone can expect from a holiday is a change of agony.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Holiday

• Ice formed on the butler's upper slopes.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost.

  

  James Martineau
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• We're busily wrecking the chances for future generations at a rapid rate of knots by not recognizing the damage we're doing to the natural environment, bearing in mind that this is the only planet that we know has any life on it.

  

  Prince Charles
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Future

• I only travel with one suitcase - Mulberry does an incredible one. I always check it; the TSA restrictions are so tricky.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Travel

• I know how it feels to go hungry.

  

  Alek Wek

• But he would have us most of all remember to be enthusiastic over the night. Not only for the sense of wonder it alone has to offer but also because it needs our love. For with sad eyes its delectable creatures look up and beg us dumbly to ask them to follow. They are exiles who long for a future that lies in our power.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Up
  • Long
  • Power

• I was a real daydreamer at school, gazing out of the window and losing myself in imaginary worlds.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Real
  • School
  • Myself

• My parents' convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong. For my bar mitzvah, I gave out a mix tape of '90s grunge - if you got it now, you would think it was the 'Singles' soundtrack.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Parents
  • Strong
  • Discipline

• What I learned at a very early age was that I was responsible for my life. And as I became more spiritually conscious, I learned that we all are responsible for ourselves, that you create your own reality by the way you think and therefore act. You cannot blame your parents, your circumstances, because you are NOT your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Age
  • Parents

• Nobody's ever gonna accuse me of being a singer, but I can sing.

  

  Alan Ruck