Richard Marx Quotes

I'm now so keenly aware that I have everything to prove and nothing to lose.

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• If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • World
  • Politics
  • Show

• In my downtime, you'll mostly find me curled up with a book. I love reading biographies. My favourites are those of Dalai Lama, Osama Bin Laden, and Einstein.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Book
  • Find
  • Biographies

• I don't know... part of, I suppose, my way out of everything, has been really taking care of myself. I think that comes from an awareness that my children really need me, and they need me to be the healthiest version of myself that I can possibly be.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Children
  • Way
  • Awareness

• In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Political
  • Leadership
  • Presidential

• Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Friends
  • Opinion
  • Differences

• I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger numbers of people. It's as though you begin to think that poetry is a resource, and that at certain times people seem to need it or want it or can find sustenance in it, and at other times they can't.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • People
  • Life
  • Poetry

• It takes me so long to get tired of a man. It's women that are the problem. Don't get me wrong. I think men have their problems just as much as women.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• I don't want to do stories that don't have a heart. I'm just not going to be satisfied with stories where I can't be passionate about the subject, where I can't make a difference.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • Heart
  • Make A Difference

• I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Country
  • Language
  • Thought

• If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Want
  • Know
  • Leak

• My wife and I have spent most of our lives in France, and we are both pretty well bilingual, my wife more purely than I, since as a little girl she went to school in French Switzerland.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • School
  • She
  • Pretty

• I'd rather do theatre and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • American
  • Small
  • Theatre

• I don't give myself titles. I don't think of that.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Give

• Maybe storytelling belongs in audio - a short story is the length of a commute. That can be a sacred spot where you have the ear of the reader without having to compete with other media like games or TV.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • You
  • Media
  • Short

• What happens to each of my female heroes, certainly, is they find something bigger than themselves that they are honored to serve. It's not giving up your family.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Up
  • Family
  • Giving

• In 1999, NATO did impose a no-fly zone in Kosovo without seeking a U.N. resolution to carry out air strikes on Serbian forces.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • Air
  • Fly

• I don't like the term 'ensemble.' It's bland to me.

  

  Lorenzo di Bonaventura

• To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Style

• I don't usually do remakes.

  

  Kathleen Kennedy

• The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or - somebody? In panic, he began to run too, aimlessly, he knew not whither.

  

  Kenneth Grahame
  • Running
  • Hunting

• He kept us off-balance. He didn't really give up too many hard-hit balls.

  

  Brad Wilkerson
  • Balls
  • Give Up
  • Off-balance

• I don't look like Catherine Zeta-Jones, so I don't think Hollywood would be that interested in me, to be honest. I just want nice work.

  

  Anne-Marie Duff
  • Work
  • Nice

• I have a lot of girlfriends, but there's something that's so easy for me about hanging out with guys. It's fun, because I feel like they accept me right back, which is really nice.

  

  Rashida Jones
  • Girlfriend
  • Accepting
  • Hanging

• I'm now so keenly aware that I have everything to prove and nothing to lose.

  

  Richard Marx