Valerie Faris Quotes

I like being able to talk about work while we're making dinner. I'd rather discuss it at that moment while it's fresh.

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• I hate it when guys wear really tight t-shirts. It's just so horrible, especially when you can see their bellies.

  

  Sam Smith
  • You
  • Hate
  • See

• In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Violence

• The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Good
  • Business
  • Leader

• I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Kitchen
  • Eating
  • Lifting

• There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Great
  • New
  • New York

• I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Play
  • Proud
  • Prejudice

• Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Look
  • Embrace
  • Grease

• Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Great
  • Support
  • Comedy

• I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Like
  • Busy
  • Cattle

• I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Marriage
  • Class

• We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • People
  • Remember
  • Political

• Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Sister

• Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Kind
  • Racing
  • Birds

• People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Political
  • Talk
  • Matters

• I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Son

• Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Me
  • Prison
  • Superstar

• Home may be where the heart is but it's no place to spend Wednesday afternoon.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Heart
  • May
  • Home

• A home with a loving and loyal husband and wife is the supreme setting in which children can be reared in love and righteousness and in which the spiritual and physical needs of children can be met.

  

  David A. Bednar
  • Children
  • Home
  • Wife

• She remembered that once, when she was a little girl, she had seen a pretty young woman with golden hair down to her knees in a long flowered dress, and had said to her, without thinking, "Are you a princess?" The girl had laughed very kindly at her and asked her what her name was. Blanche remembered going away from her, led by her mother's hand, thinking to herself that the girl really was a princess, but in disguise. And she had resolved that someday, she would dress as though she were a princess in disguise.

  

  Regina Doman
  • Mother
  • Girl
  • Woman

• The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Work
  • Women
  • Children

• I have a little boy, and I wanted to spend a lot of time with him.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Time
  • Boy
  • Him

• I like being able to talk about work while we're making dinner. I'd rather discuss it at that moment while it's fresh.

  

  Valerie Faris
  • Work