Dan Pallotta Quotes

I have always been terrified of the death of my parents. I never knew if I could count on myself. I never knew if that would send me over the edge.

Dan Pallotta

• Death
• Parents
• Myself

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• The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

  

  Ovid
  • May
  • Ability
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• Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Why
  • Name
  • Last

• I'm not that ambitious chick. I'm not chasing a cover of a magazine or an award. I've just never been that girl. I've always been very content with whatever God blessed me with and he's already blessed me with a lot.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • God
  • Girl
  • Blessed

• For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • Important
  • Control
  • Me

• I think there is a real misconception about Indian food being super spicy. And I know that's because when you go into an Indian restaurant, it is pretty spicy. But it doesn't have to be. In fact, my husband can't handle a lot of heat. I've had to temper my cooking so that he can eat with me.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • Real
  • Pretty
  • Food

• Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Writing
  • Band
  • Best

• It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Money
  • Independent
  • Easy

• A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Said
  • Rebel

• I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • World
  • Important
  • Decision

• I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Nice
  • Beginning
  • Start

• Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Man
  • Color
  • Blind

• It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • God
  • Die
  • Problem

• Acting is in your soul.

  

  LaTanya Richardson
  • Soul
  • Acting
  • Your

• I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Movie
  • Never
  • Sing

• To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Things
  • Tennis

• All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Opportunity

• God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Great
  • God
  • Faith

• Rey is so strong. She's cool and smart and she can look after herself. Young girls can look at her and know that they can wear trousers if they want to. That they don't have to show off their bodies.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Strong
  • Smart
  • Bodies

• I have this famous joke that I use: Why was God able to create Heaven and Earth in seven days and seven nights? Because he didn't have installed customers and legacy technology to worry about.

  

  Brad D. Smith
  • God
  • Why
  • Earth

• I always had the feeling that something was going to happen in front of me, and when it did I wanted my camera to be there.

  

  Carl Mydans
  • Feeling
  • Happen
  • Camera

• I know that for me, whenever I'm in a situation where there's death or sickness, my personality is to come in and do whatever I can to ease anything I can, in terms of offering to take care of things. Cooking, organizing, things like that.

  

  Elizabeth Rodriguez
  • Death
  • Personality
  • Cooking

• I don't fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.

  

  Mary Roach
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Pain

• Love is what we have, against time and death, against all the powers ranged to crush us down.

  

  Amal El-Mohtar
  • Time
  • Love
  • Death

• I have always been terrified of the death of my parents. I never knew if I could count on myself. I never knew if that would send me over the edge.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Death
  • Parents
  • Myself