Maria Shriver Quotes

We all know what happens to first ladies who shoot their mouths off.

Maria Shriver

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• What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Up
  • Now
  • Bigger

• Television is a real woman's medium... but what's disturbing is, still even in television, women have so little to do with what's going on behind the scenes.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Women
  • Real
  • Woman

• The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Idea
  • Memory
  • Eternity

• I play golf for a living. I'm grateful for that. It's a beautiful game, provides a great opportunity.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Great
  • Game
  • Beautiful

• Something about 'Battlestar' that I didn't realize when I took the job was this whole bubble aspect of closing people in and seeing what they do.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Job
  • Closing

• I think that all research scientists think of themselves as belonging to a grand tradition, building on work that has been worked on since the very beginning of science itself. Whereas I'm not sure writers think of themselves in the same way.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Work
  • Science
  • Beginning

• In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Heart
  • Help
  • Suffering

• God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our fellow-men, to kill any of our fellow-men whom we please and are able to destroy, and take possession of their estates?

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • People
  • God
  • Men

• I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Life
  • Good
  • Done

• I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Thought
  • Loved
  • Stubborn

• Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Way
  • Environment
  • Individual

• The Soviet constitution guarantees everyone a job. A pretty scary idea, I'd say.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Job
  • Pretty
  • Scary

• The virtue of the market is that it disperses responsibility.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Responsibility

• These arms of mine, They are lonely. Lonely and feeling blue. These arms of mine, They are yearning. Yearning from wanting you. And if you would let them hold you, Oh how grateful I will be.

  

  Otis Redding
  • Feeling
  • Blue
  • Lonely

• I was at a point where I was ready to say I am what I am because of what I am and if you like me I'm grateful, and if you don't, what am I going to do about it?

  

  Anne Bancroft

• Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Great

• There's nothing classic about what's around now. I am a bit old-school. There are some things that are never out of fashion because they just look good. But if you want classic style these days you have to get it made.

  

  Jay Kay Jamiroquai
  • Good
  • School
  • Fashion

• I loved 'Harry Potter' growing up. I'm dyslexic and a slow reader, but I could get through the thick ones in days!

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Up
  • Growing

• I am convinced that the public, large majority of the Greek people, realize that policies pursued in the past and the market practices have to be changed, in order to improve the prospects of the Greek economy. So there is, I think, strong public support despite the increases in social tensions.

  

  Lucas Papademos
  • People
  • Past
  • Strong

• I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Small
  • Flower

• I mean five thousand years ago people emerge out of nowhere - sproing!- with brains and everything and begin wrecking the planet. You'd think we'd give the issue a little more thought than we do.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • People

• When I started, I just put my nose to the grindstone, had great trainers and opponents like Fit Finlay, Arn Anderson, Booker T, Umaga and Bob Holly, and good things started to happen.

  

  Bobby Lashley
  • Opponents
  • Trainers
  • Grindstone

• I remind young people everywhere I go, one of the worst things the older generation did was to tell them for twenty-five years 'Be successful, be successful, be successful' as opposed to 'Be great, be great, be great'. There's a qualitative difference.

  

  Cornel West
  • People
  • Great

• We all know what happens to first ladies who shoot their mouths off.

  

  Maria Shriver