Anne Baxter Quotes

Darryl Zanuck thought all women were either broads or librarians. He thought I was a librarian. He thought I was smart.

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• I think all politicians lie.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Think
  • Lie
  • Politicians

• Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

  

  Jack Welch
  • You
  • Change
  • Lead

• I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Bad
  • Mom
  • Player

• She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.

  

  Gail Parent
  • Live
  • Women
  • She

• There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Work
  • Great
  • Long

• If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Will
  • Prosperity
  • Far

• Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Free
  • Motion
  • Friction

• I'm a slow starter.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Slow
  • Starter

• I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Time
  • Me
  • Genre

• It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • World
  • Peace
  • Government

• The tale of 'Point Break' is about doing what you love and committing to what you love. It's relevant to me as a Venezuelan, to you as an American, to any Chinese person watching the film.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Film
  • Person
  • Watching

• The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Mind
  • Human
  • Curiosity

• No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Person
  • Language
  • Mouth

• On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.

  

  Hans Frank
  • August
  • Join
  • Officer

• In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Women
  • Leadership
  • Voices

• It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • Partner
  • Tea

• I belong to the Congress. My party has always supported prohibition, though it may not have been successful in implementing prohibition in many states.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • May
  • Party
  • Successful

• The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Country
  • Culture
  • Small

• One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.

  

  Faith Baldwin
  • Life
  • You
  • Road

• Throughout my career, I have discovered and rediscovered a simple truth.It is this: the ability to concentrate single-mindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status and happiness in life.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Great
  • Important

• Like with any good art form, if you can entertain people and make them think, it's an honor. It's just an honor to be a comedian.

  

  Bob Saget
  • People
  • Good
  • Art

• there is this malign curse laid on dipsomaniacs. That they must absolutely have a drink: in order to feel strong enough to stop drinking.

  

  Caitlin Thomas
  • Strong
  • Stop
  • Drinking

• I do think we have a long way to go in terms of the culture around women still being career women, and asking a woman about her career and her work, just seeing them as fully validated human beings in the workplace.

  

  Corin Tucker
  • Work
  • Long
  • Women

• Darryl Zanuck thought all women were either broads or librarians. He thought I was a librarian. He thought I was smart.

  

  Anne Baxter
  • Women
  • Smart