Allison Janney Quotes

People are usually so disappointed with book-to-movie translations.

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• It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Team
  • Winning
  • Baseball

• 'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Character
  • Want
  • Compliment

• I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • World
  • Joy
  • Socks

• Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Me
  • Diversity
  • Helpful

• You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Work
  • Girl
  • Yourself

• Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Animal

• All good actors are actresses. The more like a woman they are, the better they act, because a man's salvation is his femininity. Women have stronger sensibilities than men, which allows them to go a bit deeper when they are on and off the stage.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Time
  • Long
  • Drug

• I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • People
  • Believe
  • Love

• I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Truth
  • Think
  • Ready

• For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • American
  • Future
  • Man

• Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Taken

• We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Same
  • Vices
  • Ladder

• A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Great
  • Together
  • Radio

• For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Lyrics
  • Solos

• I should have felt pity, but I felt only contempt. I knew had it been a girl she would have mourned less, and it angered me.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • She
  • Girl

• No one has the answers, but one thing is true. You got to turn on evil, when its coming after you.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • True
  • Evil
  • Answers

• At one time or another all normal people have wished their loved ones were dead.

  

  Albert Camus
  • People
  • Dead
  • Wished

• Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.

  

  Philip Zimbardo

• I'm very pleased with the job President Bush is doing and he's off to a terrific start.

  

  John Engler
  • Job

• People are usually so disappointed with book-to-movie translations.

  

  Allison Janney
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