Elaine Stritch Quotes

I find it easier to abstain than do a little bit of anything. I'm not a 'little bit' kind of dame. I want it all, whatever I do.

Elaine Stritch

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• Any actor is happy to be involved with something that's challenging, controversial, and not easily palatable. Things that are too dumbed down or easy to swallow are uninteresting... It's good when people have such a polarizing response.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Good
  • Happy

• I think a woman should be wholesome, voluptuous and sizzling!

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Think
  • Woman
  • Should

• Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Great
  • City
  • Fighting

• I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - what makes people tick. I've also always been passionate about social issues and causes, and I wanted to make films that addressed important issues in very human terms.

  

  Barbara Kopple
  • People
  • Important
  • Think

• Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Money
  • Trust
  • Your

• We own a shopping center in Temecula that is occupied and making money. In Florida, I am doing a 500-home subdivision just north of Eglin Air Force Base.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Money
  • Home
  • Shopping

• Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Way
  • Writer
  • Own

• I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Simple
  • Individual
  • Humility

• Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be, at least in small part, because of his book. The notion that ubiquitous surveillance and state manipulation of the media is evil is deeply engrained in us.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • May
  • Book
  • Society

• My Plan A was to be a psychologist. I thought I would be a receptionist. I'm always middle of the road and very normal. I've always wanted a normal life, and this is what I got.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Life
  • Road
  • Thought

• The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Test

• I like conflict - someone who challenges me, someone who I can look up to, someone who can keep me in check. Love has to be extraordinary; otherwise, there's no point in it. I just haven't met anyone who's made me feel that way.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Challenges

• I feel like moderate Republicans, who would support sensible gun violence legislation, are pushed aside by those folks who are absolutely beholden to the NRA.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Support
  • Violence
  • Gun

• A society that respects women needs to elect leaders who care more about women's lives than they do about their or their company's bottom line.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Women
  • Society
  • Care

• I think, as an actor, you're always traveling. There's a sense of dislocation sometimes from home.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Home
  • Think
  • Sometimes

• To me, it's really not about how I look - it's about who I can be. It is my job to bring the character to life and my duty to fit into the jigsaw in that story.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Life
  • Character
  • Job

• I've experienced wrong diagnoses and been given antibiotics for things that could be cured naturally. We may not think much of it, but it destroys our immunity.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • May
  • Think
  • Wrong

• You've got to have a dream... if you don't have any big dreams, nothing happens.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Dream
  • You
  • Dreams

• Bhutan is a very serene country with an incredible history. It has an incredible group of great artisans.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Great
  • Country
  • History

• He causes huge bodies like sun to proclaim His Majesty through His Names the All-Gracious, Great, reciting: ' O Glorious One, O Great One, O Mighty One', while tiny animate creatures like flies and fish proclaim His Mercy, reciting: 'O Gracious One, O Compassionate One, O Generous One

  

  Said Nursi
  • Great
  • Sun
  • Mercy

• Once we know that people are human and have some Homer Simpson in them, then there's a lot that can be done to manipulate them.

  

  Cass Sunstein
  • People
  • Done
  • Manipulate

• It is not the passion of a mind struggling with misfortune, or the hopelessness of its desires, but of a mind preying on itself, and disgusted with, or indifferent to all other things.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Mind
  • Desire
  • Passion

• I find it easier to abstain than do a little bit of anything. I'm not a 'little bit' kind of dame. I want it all, whatever I do.

  

  Elaine Stritch