Anna Deavere Smith Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
Nathan Fielder -
Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.
Ted Nugent -
I like to be home with my son, kickin' it and watching ESPN, a very normal life. I like to take him to school every day, watch his games.
Taraji P. Henson -
There's not a day in my life I'm not proud of being gay, but I just wasn't ready for that attention to be placed on it. I remember being on Oprah. Well, not on Oprah. Near Oprah. She started saying, 'Now, Nathan, you got all those girlie moves going down in 'The Birdcage,' where's all that coming from? You're so good at all that girlie stuff!'
Nathan Lane -
I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
Barbara Kruger -
Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.
Gail Collins
-
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
G. Gordon Liddy -
It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
Queen Christina -
I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
Harold E. Varmus -
Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.
Barry Bonds -
Prosecutors say my father was the biggest crime boss in the nation... If you really want to know what John Gotti was like, you need to talk to my family. We lived this life.
Victoria Gotti
-
It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.
Vera Farmiga -
I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio and make it possible for our young people to stay here and build a life in Ohio rather than in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or God knows where.
Ted Strickland -
I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that everything you do isn't about your own creature comforts or satisfying your own appetites. Some of it has to be directed outward and there is a huge satisfaction in that.
Wendie Malick -
That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I relate to having to fight that and claim my own identity, when people are trying to throw different ones at me.
Zoe Kravitz -
'Star Wars' hasn't changed my life at all.
Natalie Portman -
I am very happy with what I see. The grey, the not-so grey and the camouflaged That's life. One has to live with it.
Amitabh Bachchan
-
More or less the first thing that comes into my head is that some people are always looking for what they want to do in life and never finding it. I'm not one of those people. It has been very obvious to me from an early age who I am, and this has been tied up with creativity, and, specifically, with writing.
Quentin S. Crisp -
I wasn't really the most charming person, socially – it took me a long time to develop my people skills – but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.
Zooey Deschanel -
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Walter Scott -
In my own life I'm frequently in predominantly white atmospheres.
Anna Deavere Smith