Rahm Emanuel Quotes

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

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• I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Men
  • Women
  • Action

• The Heat gave me an opportunity when nobody else wanted to.

  

  Udonis Haslem
  • Opportunity
  • Wanted
  • Heat

• I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Lists

• I really enjoy the fun of putting something out and people liking it or hating it or talking about it, but vacuous attention, it feels disgusting. It's like a hangover.

  

  FKA twigs
  • People
  • Fun
  • Attention

• The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Time
  • Great
  • Fun

• Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Good
  • Think
  • Me

• The less you have, the more you enjoy.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • You
  • Enjoy
  • More

• Discipline is not a nasty word.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Discipline
  • Word
  • Nasty

• I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Husband
  • Child
  • Stubborn

• The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.

  

  Walter Martin
  • May
  • Soul
  • Success

• As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Live
  • Way
  • Hate

• One of our first jobs was at Saba Software. We were helping them build their products for the cloud. We wanted to build our own product and move away from consulting. We were looking for a change. The CEO of Saba introduced me to Marc Benioff.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Change
  • Helping
  • Looking

• Honesty is something you can't wear out.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • You
  • Something
  • Honesty

• My love songs are very personal and quite weird. They don't really have the big radio hit choruses because basically they're my therapy, stuff I have to get off my chest.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Weird
  • Songs
  • Stuff

• I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • People
  • Children
  • Love

• You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Heart
  • She
  • Truth

• Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Always
  • Credit
  • Credit Card

• I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Matter
  • Accept
  • Someone

• I have quite a collection of ironic band T shirts.

  

  Andrea Riseborough
  • Band
  • Ironic

• Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton
  • Good
  • Power
  • Wise

• If a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a hardware store and paying cash -- for any rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything - without producing ID or signing one scrap of paper, he isn't your friend no matter what he tells you.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Men
  • Children
  • Friend

• I never thought I'd be an action star, but now they're going to make little Xena action figures for kids. I still want to be a fine actress one day; it's just a matter of putting in the time and passion.

  

  Lucy Lawless
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Action

• Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature...

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Time
  • Heroes
  • Abstract