Loretta Swit Quotes

Everybody has their thing. I think you can always do what you like.

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• I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Control
  • Government
  • Blame

• I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Great
  • Women
  • Mother

• I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Intention
  • Marrying
  • Kennedy

• They're not poodles, they're art.

  

  Rachael Leigh
  • Art

• Playing good girls in the 30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Girl

• There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • People
  • Law
  • Very

• You get a lot of speeding tickets, and you say, 'I'm so unlucky!' No, you're not. You're speeding. Slow down.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • You
  • Down
  • Slow

• I was in Toronto when the big Women's March was going on, and I thought, 'Well, I've never been to a protest, and I can't sit this one out, and they're having a gathering here in Toronto, so I may as well go,' and gosh, I didn't expect 60,000 or 65,000 people to be there - it was huge! It was something that I didn't feel I could sit out at all.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • People
  • Women
  • May

• But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.

  

  Sally Field
  • Me
  • Waiting
  • Half

• There's so much excellent new music around that I can't afford to buy it all and I haven't the time to review as much as I'd like. I can't remember a better time to be a musician or to listen to music!

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Time
  • Music
  • Remember

• You know I'm weak on good looks.

  

  Rachel Lambert Mellon
  • Good
  • You
  • Know

• Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Reading
  • Exercise
  • Walking

• I'm still walking around New York like a tourist staring up at all the skyscrapers. I wave at people, I shake hands, I help ladies with strollers.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • People
  • Up
  • Help

• Now we can cross the Shifting Sands.

  

  L. Frank Baum

• We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting. The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • World
  • Different
  • Prayer

• I'm on top cuz I deserve to beSo simmer down, calm your nerves at leastSpeak your words with peaceBefore you lay out on the curb deceased.

  

  T.I.
  • Words
  • Calm

• And virtue they will curse, speaking harsh words.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Words

• On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Life
  • World
  • Death

• One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I've had some lovely, surprisingly good fortune with readers, and I've brought readers to my dad's work. I can't tell you the joy that gives me. Because my father's work was masterful.

  

  Andre Dubus III
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• Success is overwhelming.

  

  Jennifer Holliday
  • Success

• The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am very frustrating to work with.

  

  Alton Brown
  • Work
  • Power

• Clarity of vision - what you've been looking at from the wrong angle and not seen at all.

  

  David Howell Evans U2
  • Looking
  • Clarity
  • Angle

• Everybody has their thing. I think you can always do what you like.

  

  Loretta Swit