Anita Loos Quotes

with a mental equipment which allows me to tell the difference between hot and cold, I stand out in this community like a modern day Cicero. Dropped into any other city of the world, I'd rate as a possibly adequate night watchman.

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• I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • World
  • Important
  • Power

• It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • World
  • Money
  • Fun

• The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • World
  • America
  • Democracy

• I would say that Juventus is a myth not only in Italy, because it's the most loved team in Italy, but also around the world. And it has been in my family since birth.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • World
  • Family
  • Team

• I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Live
  • Respect

• It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• 'Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Time
  • World
  • Lord

• I have a saying: I try to make the world smaller by making the party bigger.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • World
  • Party
  • Saying

• I definitely storyboard, but I only start once I have cast and location. I like to find the world first.

  

  Garth Davis
  • World
  • Find
  • Start

• We all wake up, and I'm sure at some point during the day we all have very similar thoughts regardless of our circumstances and where we are in the world.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Up
  • World
  • Day

• I remember driving the tractor on our farm, and Tim McGraw would be on the radio. I'd find myself walking out of class, singing his songs. And then Tim ended up playing my father in 'Friday Night Lights.' It was surreal.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Father

• My blood runs cold when I hear the 'great news' that we have found a marker for the Down's syndrome gene, which means we can identify it more easily. Why is that good news? It's only good news if you're going to terminate.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Good
  • Great
  • Why

• I'm not interested in being Don Quixote. I'm interested in running the City of New York.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Running
  • City
  • New

• There's a bunch of places in the world I haven't been to, 'cause I can only be on a plane for a little bit. I'm like, 'How long is it to get there? Two days on a plane? What? No.'

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • World
  • Long
  • Places

• Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.

  

  Major Owens
  • World
  • Children
  • Teacher

• The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • inspirational

• I've never been into parties, premieres or night-clubbing.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Night
  • Never
  • Been

• My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • World
  • Dad

• I love skincare. If anything, my skin goes extremely dry. I could put hand cream on my face, and it still goes in. On flights, I always put on masks, and I have night cream as my day cream.

  

  Alicia Vikander
  • Night
  • Hand

• The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it.

  

  Christopher Nolan

• The more we can do to support and promulgate the intellectual traditions of the Abrahamic faiths - of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - the better armed we will be to fight fundamentalism.

  

  Jon Meacham
  • Support

• What I’m saying is, if God wanted to send us a message, and ancient writings were the only way he could think of doing it, he could have done a better job.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • God
  • Done
  • Job

• In college, I stopped doing pre-med and went into theater, and then I moved to San Francisco and lived there for five years.

  

  Mark Waters
  • College

• with a mental equipment which allows me to tell the difference between hot and cold, I stand out in this community like a modern day Cicero. Dropped into any other city of the world, I'd rate as a possibly adequate night watchman.

  

  Anita Loos
  • World
  • Night
  • Community