Alison Sweeney Quotes

I was never obese, but I felt 'less than' because I wasn't as thin as other actresses. I totally fell for that low-fat craze. My goal was to be X jeans size or a specific number on the scale.

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• I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Work
  • Family
  • Money

• When I took my first job, I was among only a handful of women. It was isolating at times. My love for technology kept me going, and I got to where I am today driven by my passion and self confidence.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Women
  • Love
  • Job

• Lanai at one time grew 98% of the world's pineapples. But the world's pineapples are now grown in two places, Costa Rica and Panama, because no one wants to spend $45 for a pineapple from the United States.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Time
  • World
  • Now

• When people take advantage of you and make a business out of it, that's not nice.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • People
  • Business
  • Nice

• Caretaking is different from care giving. Care giving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached. It cannot be manipulated or discouraged because love cannot be manipulated or discouraged.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Joy
  • Care
  • Expectation

• The idea was always to be an actor.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Always
  • Idea
  • Actor

• I'm just going to have to grow old, because I'm too terrified to have anything done.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Done
  • Old
  • Grow

• If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Kind
  • Find
  • Principles

• Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Think
  • Man
  • You

• Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

  

  Vartan Gregorian
  • Humanity
  • Wise
  • Unique

• I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Success
  • Feel
  • Theory

• 'Sharp it away, lad, sharp it away,' the burly guardsman said, making the blade skitter across the whetstone, 'lest otherways ye’ll be a girl afore ye’re a man.'

  

  Tad Williams
  • Girl

• The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.

  

  Louis Kronenberger
  • Age

• Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than with the imagination being awake?

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Why
  • Imagination

• America, thankfully, is not an easy nation to commandeer.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • America

• My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.

  

  Jeanette Winterson

• The death of Sid Caesar on Wednesday caused a chain reaction in my soon-to-be-66-year-old mind. I was saddened, of course, but felt a sense of relief that he was at last free from the indignity of aging.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Mind
  • Death
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• I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It's not like a politician who knows who is in the Iowa caucus.

  

  Albert Brooks

• We warn our children and grandchildren about peer pressure. We want them to say no to the vices of the world: drinking, drugs, and other destructive behaviors. But as we move from childhood to adulthood, we find the peer pressure changes. Daniel 3:2 notes "the satraps, the administrators, the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces" were there. I'm sure more than one of them thought they needed to keep their job with all of its benefits. Not much has changed in two-and-a-half millennia.

  

  O. S. Hawkins
  • Children
  • Moving
  • Drinking

• Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher’s stone.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • She

• The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • People
  • History
  • Visible

• The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Children
  • Growing

• There are sexual things that I do that aren’t for a man. I feel empowered sometimes by being sexy and being comfortable enough to be sexy on camera — a lot of woman [sic] struggle with that. But, there are some days that I don’t want anyone to see me. I’m just a regular girl. Some days, I’m super-strong; some days, I’m super-insecure. But, I don’t really identify with any particular label. I just speak my truth, and if people like it, they like it, and if they bash it, they bash it.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • Men
  • Truth

• I was never obese, but I felt 'less than' because I wasn't as thin as other actresses. I totally fell for that low-fat craze. My goal was to be X jeans size or a specific number on the scale.

  

  Alison Sweeney