Kevin Bacon Quotes

I don't have any plans of slowing down. I love being an actor.

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• I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Obsessed
  • Proportion
  • Perceived

• I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Think
  • Age
  • Desire

• A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Ideas
  • Sound
  • Differences

• It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Speak
  • Actor
  • Rare

• So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Long
  • Business

• I suppose I am one: an activist - for animals and a vegan lifestyle. I hear that word, however, and look around to see if someone is indeed referring to me.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Animals
  • Lifestyle
  • Vegan

• When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Past
  • Prison
  • Embrace

• I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.

  

  Banks
  • Good
  • Music
  • Black

• My standards are based on shows I like, like 'Girls' or 'Arrested Development.' And they're all shows that are groundbreaking. I guess in the back of my head, I think, If you're not being groundbreaking, then what are you doing? If you're not being ballsy and honest and vulgar, then what are you doing?

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Think
  • Doing
  • Development

• What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgraced, you want to make a comeback, and normally that begins with somebody saying, 'I want to do something to help people. I want to do something to help the lepers in the Third World. I want to do something to help abandoned wives in India.'

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • World
  • Help

• I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Nothing
  • Something
  • Thing

• We book our exports forward for more than a year, and so we have a fixed rate. We do not get the spot rate that we see in the market every day.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Book
  • Day
  • Everyday

• In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Work
  • Win
  • Hard Work

• I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Child
  • Very
  • Ambitious

• Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Me
  • Thought
  • Never Forget

• Each of them was intimately aware of the procedure for electing a pope-not only of the antiquated mechanisms, of course, but of the politicking, pressuring, deal-making, bluffing, and outright blackmail that had often accompanied the process over the centuries.

  

  Dan Simmons

• The need to remove Col. Qaddafi should be self-evident.

  

  Pete Hoekstra

• Beneficent spirals, operating by benign feedback, mean that everything needful is not required at once: each individual improvement is beneficial for the whole

  

  Jane Jacobs
  • Improvement

• The model that I'd always seen as a little boy, as a teenager, as I watched other political careers, I saw people who'd start off in local government, gain experience, move to state government, and then on to federal office. I'd always believed that kind of experience was important.

  

  Mark Takano
  • People
  • Important
  • Experience

• When the problem is worry, the prescription is prayer.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Problem
  • Christian
  • Worry

• I think that women no longer have to set up a boundary between work life and home life. One of the hallmarks of my thinking is that I bring a lot of my personal life into my work. That's a huge advantage I have over men, who may feel they have to separate the two.

  

  Charlene Li

• I don't have any plans of slowing down. I love being an actor.

  

  Kevin Bacon