Louie Anderson Quotes

Well, isn't every successful person in every family the bankbook?

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• I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Time
  • Long
  • Family

• I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Time
  • Different
  • Writing

• In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • People
  • Boy
  • Living

• I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Country
  • Think

• Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Sound
  • Classes
  • Accent

• The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Time
  • Sleep
  • Brain

• One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Different
  • Me

• And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.

  

  Venerable Bede
  • Words
  • Knowledge
  • Day

• I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Training
  • Boys
  • Manual

• Death just comes, not happiness. Because when you're trying to find happiness, you're trying to navigate a very, very murky minefield of distractions, of disappointments, of deceptions. That's why you have to work on happiness.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Why

• Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.

  

  Fabrice Grinda
  • World
  • Rest
  • France

• I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Never
  • Down
  • Phone

• The fan support was the greatest. It's everything.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Support
  • Greatest
  • Fan

• Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Today
  • Nuclear Weapons

• I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Live
  • Past
  • Earth

• When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • You
  • Commitment
  • Honesty

• To me, being worth it means being independent and carving your own path. The L'Oreal woman is worth it because she wants to be.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Woman
  • Path
  • Independent

• You can make a hit song in 15 minutes. I don't know about someone else's song, but songs that people like of mine, I've created in 15 minutes or less.

  

  Action Bronson
  • People
  • Song
  • Know

• For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life.

  

  Derek Bok
  • Life
  • May
  • Knowledge

• When you go to our political system, I feel like it's intentionally kept in the last century. In every other facet of life, we turn to social media for instant response time, complete transparency.

  

  Mark Pincus
  • Life
  • Time
  • Political

• Even though David Pottruck has gone to this unbelievable career where he is a billionaire, there is always a new hurdle. He never sits there saying, 'I'm the best.'

  

  Brian Kilmeade
  • Career

• I've been a rescue dog mom several times and occasionally found comfort in scrolling through pictures of animals on various adoption center websites, just to fantasize about adding to the family.

  

  AJ Lee
  • Family
  • Mom
  • Dog

• For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

  

  Jessica Lange
  • Family
  • Home
  • Mother

• Well, isn't every successful person in every family the bankbook?

  

  Louie Anderson
  • Family