Andie MacDowell Quotes

I was six when my parents divorced, and that was tough for me.

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• Spontaneity is what travel is all about.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Travel
  • About
  • Spontaneity

• Naturalization is the process by which a citizen, or subject of a foreign nation or kingdom, is made a citizen of the United States. It is evident that the Constitutional Convention thought that it was important that this process should be placed under the exclusive control of the Federal Government and not of the States.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Important
  • Control
  • Government

• I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Good
  • God
  • Bad

• The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Politics
  • Safety
  • Aim

• I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Think
  • You
  • Ice

• Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Movies

• If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Play
  • Things
  • Born

• You can't, no matter what anyone says, build a movie around someone.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Movie
  • You
  • Matter

• Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • People
  • Good
  • Live

• Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Real
  • Confidence
  • Doubt

• Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.

  

  Sabine Lisicki
  • Me
  • Joy
  • Tennis

• My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.

  

  Nancy Garden
  • People
  • Writing
  • Happy

• No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Up
  • Change
  • Stand

• I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Live
  • Trying

• A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Character
  • Death
  • Blow

• I get plenty of, 'Is that song about me?' from men but I just tell them to get over themselves.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Men
  • Song
  • Me

• I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • World
  • Think
  • Computers

• Wild flowers grow where they will.

  

  Rachel Lambert Mellon
  • Grow
  • Flowers
  • WIld

• My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them.

  

  Alastair Campbell
  • Great
  • Long
  • Friend

• A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Job
  • Happy
  • Be Happy

• It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting along. My mother was quite intolerant of friendships that were being developed.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Good
  • Mother
  • Parents

• It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Reading

• While few human challenges are greater than that of being good parents, few opportunities offer greater potential for joy. Surely, no more important work is to be done in this world than preparing our children to be God-fearing, happy, honorable, and productive.

  

  James E. Faust
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• I was six when my parents divorced, and that was tough for me.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Parents