Lennon Parham Quotes

I was obsessed with Carol Burnett and then Tracey Ullman. Like, obsessed with their shows.

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• The beauty of soaps is that it takes a village to make it work, and you get to work with really hardworking people.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • People
  • Work
  • Beauty

• Female can understand more detail and really care for the consequence and understand all the process.

  

  Yingluck Shinawatra
  • Care
  • Understand
  • Process

• Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Money
  • Trust
  • Your

• A lot of people don't realize that hair is a big thing for a lot of people, not just African-American women. It's something to be aware of and to be cautious of.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Women
  • American

• Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Doubt
  • Values

• Russell Crowe is very difficult, but it's worth it. He's the real thing. I can tell you this. Russell Crowe was just as difficult before he was an international star as he was afterwards.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Real
  • Star
  • I Can

• When I lived in London, I worked three jobs and had such long work days.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Work
  • Long
  • London

• Eventually, Nixon ran a very centrist presidency, not a Goldwater conservative presidency.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Very
  • Conservative

• We need to say that women have sex, have abortions, are at peace with the decision, and move on with their lives. We need to say that is their right, and, moreover, it's good for everyone that they have this right: The whole society benefits when motherhood is voluntary.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Good
  • Women
  • Society

• I am not attempting to preserve culture, or record actual events or stories. Instead I bow my head in gratitude to those storytellers who have gone before and paved a way for me play in their stomping grounds. Doubtless those who want to be offended, will - allowing me to make them happy, too, which pleases me as much as it pleases them.

  

  Patricia Briggs
  • Happy
  • Culture
  • Way

• It's not a meritocracy until everyone starts with the same opportunities, is it?

  

  Laura Wade
  • Same
  • Opportunities
  • Until

• Broadcasting began, essentially, in the hands of very, very few players - actually two - and when television came along, there were two networks, then three. Rules began to get formulated that essentially protected that concentrated group.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Hands
  • Television
  • Rules

• Medieval alchemists, despite their lust for gold, considered mercury the most potent and poetic substance in the universe. As a child, I would have agreed with them.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Universe
  • Child
  • Gold

• Art is my life and my life is art.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Art
  • My Life

• That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Life
  • Up
  • Day

• All attempts at gaining literary polish must begin with judicious reading, and the learner must never cease to hold this phase uppermost. In many cases, the usage of good authors will be found a more effective guide than any amount of precept.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Good
  • Reading
  • Precept

• There's a lot of people out now around America who depend on checks from their fellow taxpayers being in the mailbox every day.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • People
  • America
  • Day

• The temple is a place of worship. Reverence is a supernal form of worship. It is the form of worship found in the celestial kingdom.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Place
  • Temple
  • Celestial

• In some ways, Valiant Gentlemen grows out of Tales of the New World, my collection of short stories about explorers who lived "great" lives, but whose experience of it was in the same register as all our lives are - we feel the same extent of human emotion regardless of how exceptional our actions are: nothing is more exceptional than one's own life.

  

  Sabina Murray
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• I have learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the light, things that have saved my life over and over again, so that there is really only one logical conclusion. I need darkness as much as I need light.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Light
  • My Life
  • Learned

• The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Dangerous
  • Mountains
  • Places

• Today, I regularly attend two Buddhist organizations, the Zen Center of Los Angeles and Against the Stream, but I also attend certain Christian functions. I try to cultivate a generous, kind spirit and am open to anything to help get me there.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Help
  • Christian
  • Spirit

• As we give, so shall we receive. Service does not mean self-sacrifice. It means giving the needs of another person the same priority as our own.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Giving
  • Service
  • Sacrifice

• I was obsessed with Carol Burnett and then Tracey Ullman. Like, obsessed with their shows.

  

  Lennon Parham