Amy Adams Quotes

I knew I wanted to be a performer, but I didn't know I would specifically be in film. I actually never thought I would be in film. I always envisioned being on the stage.

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• I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Work
  • Talking

• I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • People
  • Work
  • Marriage

• By 17, I was modeling and had bought myself a flat. I've always tried to be self-sufficient.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Myself
  • Always
  • Modeling

• In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the 'we' rather than the 'I.'

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • World
  • Ego
  • Personal

• Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Balance
  • Fight
  • Self-Esteem

• There is no longer any anonymity on the Web - unless we mandate it. The most personal information about your online habits is collected, bought and sold, often instantaneously and invisibly. Data collection is a business driven by profits at consumers' expense.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Business
  • Information
  • Data

• We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • May
  • Strong
  • Progress

• Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • People
  • Leaders
  • Founders

• No entrepreneur ever publicly admits to bribing, but few dare to openly claim they don't, either.

  

  Wang Shi
  • Entrepreneur
  • Ever
  • Dare

• I was the rebel in our family and a child of the eighties. That meant going to the mall.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Family
  • Child
  • Rebel

• I think I'm drawn to more villain-type characters, because it's so cool to get to say all the things you want to say. In Hollywood, you get to this position where you have to bite your tongue so much. You take all your experiences of not being able to say what you really want to say, and channel that through your character.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Character
  • Want
  • Cool

• Just because one likes to cook up a great meal or decorate their home doesn't mean they have to do it with granite counter tops and duck a l'orange.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Up
  • Great
  • Home

• I brought a lot of my own pieces of clothes to the design room when I first met with the design team just so they could see what my style was like.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • Team
  • Style
  • Design

• There is no room for political, personal or religious ideologies in science.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Science
  • Political
  • Religious

• It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Me
  • Child
  • Paint

• Serving up ads based on behavioral targeting can itself be an invasion of privacy, especially when the information used is personal.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Up
  • Information
  • Privacy

• The year 1983 was crazy. People wanted to sell not only their investments... but also their companies.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Year

• The wise are above books.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Wise
  • Books
  • Above

• Thinking should become your capital asset, whatever ups and downs you may come across in your life.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • May

• Reprogramming the unconscious beliefs that block fuller awareness of creative/intuitive capabilities depends upon a key characteristic of the mind, namely that it responds to what is vividly imagined as though it were real experience.

  

  Willis Harman
  • Real
  • Creative
  • Awareness

• A lot of people tend to glorify the role of satire and comedians. They put them up as role models, as fighters for the truth and against tyranny, and I think that's overrated.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • People
  • Up
  • Truth

• A woman my age is not supposed to be attractive or sexually appealing. I just get kinda tired of that.

  

  Kathleen Turner
  • Age
  • Tired

• Wherever Mantle went in the great metropolis - Danny's Hideaway, the Latin Quarter, the '21' Club, the Stork Club, El Morocco, Toots Shor's - his preferred drink was waiting when he walked through the door. Reporters waited at his locker for monosyllabic bons mots. Boys clustered by the players' gate, hoping to touch him.

  

  Jane Leavy
  • Great
  • Waiting
  • Door

• I knew I wanted to be a performer, but I didn't know I would specifically be in film. I actually never thought I would be in film. I always envisioned being on the stage.

  

  Amy Adams