Lenny Wilkens Quotes

If you want it, you've got to give it.

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• I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?'

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Thinking
  • College
  • Smart

• Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • God
  • Process
  • Doctor

• I'm going to go to work out, and I'm going to enjoy it, and I'm going to eat really healthy. But I'm going to go to Vegas, and I'm going to stop at In-N-Out Burger, and then I'll be back on track.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Work
  • Stop
  • Enjoy

• I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.

  

  Taliesin
  • World
  • Praise
  • Royal

• It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Food
  • Like
  • Looks

• I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Like
  • Being
  • Profession

• I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They're very universal stories I've told - every movie I've done.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • Done
  • Experience
  • American

• Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Once

• A long healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Life
  • Good
  • Long

• Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Knowledge
  • Nothing
  • Without

• I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Up
  • Feeling

• Never charge a player and, above all, no pointing your finger or yelling.

  Ford Frick
  • Player
  • Never
  • Charge

• Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty to create their shows.

  

  Daniel Gillies
  • Liberty
  • Move
  • Censorship

• I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Small
  • Poetry
  • Loved

• A lion runs the fastest when he is hungry.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Lion
  • Hungry
  • Runs

• I find it easier to work when it's quiet.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Work
  • Find
  • Quiet

• I'm just concerned that if I get older, people aren't going to enjoy me as much as when I was younger, because I had a great voice for a little girl, but I mean, my voice can't get any bigger when I'm older.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • People
  • Great
  • Girl

• I regret not having more children. I would have loved to have had a bigger family.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Children
  • Family
  • Regret

• And it was the idea that you can do a play - like a Shakespeare play, or any well-written play, Arthur Miller, whatever - and say things you could never imagine saying, never imagine thinking in your own life.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • Life
  • Thinking

• Memoirs are going to be problematic sells for a while, though, because even if memoir means "based in memory," right now, in the collective mind, memoir means "recovery." When my agent and I started looking at small presses the possibility for my book, I realized most small presses were not publishing memoir, because they don't want to be associated with the genre that Mary Karr calls, half-facetiously, "literature's trashy cousin."

  

  Debra Monroe
  • Possibility
  • Recovery
  • Cousin

• I would not want to put him in charge of snake control in Ireland.

  

  Eugene McCarthy
  • Control
  • Charge
  • Ireland

• If you want it, you've got to give it.

  

  Lenny Wilkens