Annette Bening Quotes
I never speak for my husband, and I never speak for my children. It's a rule. Believe me, it is.
Quotes to Explore
-
As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
-
I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.
-
We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
-
We need to think about how we teach working-class children about not just hard skills, like reading and mathematics, but also soft skills, like conflict resolution and financial management.
-
The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.
-
I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.
-
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
-
I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.
-
My mother witnessed the martyrdom of her husband, Hajj Malik Shabazz, Malcolm X, on Sunday, February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. My older sisters, Attallah, Qubilah and I were seated with our mother up front and stage right.
-
See, I believe that it is not true that different races and nations are alike. I'm profoundly convinced that that's a total lie. I think people are different. Sardinians, for example, have stubby little fingers. Bosnians have short necks.
-
I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader or listener should be able to enter the poem as a participant. So I try to get past resolving poems.
-
Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.
-
As someone who specializes in deception, I'll tell you this much: When someone insistently implores, 'Believe me,' don't. Pleading 'believe me' or 'trust me' - insisting to people that you are telling the truth - is a tell-tale sign that you probably aren't.
-
The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.
-
These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don't know who is calling that child.
-
I do not believe wealthy candidates should spend vast resources in their own campaigns.
-
When I was 16 or 17 I heard the Count Basie band with Jo Jones and Lester Young and Herschel Evans and I couldn't believe it. They were the greatest swing band. I really fell in love with that sound. Everybody danced!
-
When you have kids, for me, it really changed me. I was always empathetic to other children, but now I'm so much more sensitive to children that aren't my own.
-
I believe photos is one of the underlying things in every social network that becomes successful.
-
Unlike most divorces, where the children were usually the first to know, my parents were very good about keeping that a secret.
-
I saw The Sound of Music when I was 10 and thought that it was the most beautiful singing I had ever heard.
-
I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.
-
I think the three Mexican directors - Alejandro Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro - gave all of us foreign, and particularly Latino, directors a big break.
-
I never speak for my husband, and I never speak for my children. It's a rule. Believe me, it is.
