Adriana Trigiani Quotes

You don't get everything you want. That doesn't exist in this realm.

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• In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • World
  • Peace

• When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • Team
  • Play
  • Church

• New York City is my favorite city in the world.

  

  Halston Sage
  • World
  • City
  • New York

• A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Great
  • May
  • Future

• I've been very lucky.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Lucky
  • Very
  • Been

• It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.

  

  Wang Shi
  • Time
  • Business
  • Running

• I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Up
  • Now
  • Standards

• I tried to be a goth for a while. I'd pour baby powder on my face and paint my lips black, but that didn't last long. I thought I looked cool at the time. But then you look back and wonder, 'Why did anyone let me out of the house looking like that?'

  

  Imelda May
  • Time
  • Long
  • Why

• Border security is a complex issue and will remain a top priority during the 2007 legislative year. As Congress works to fix this problem, I will continue to push for strong measures that beef up security at our borders.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Up
  • Strong
  • Problem

• I'm quite curious and excited about seeing a new script for 'Blade Runner.' If, in fact, the opportunity would exist to do another, if it's a good script, I would be very anxious to work with Ridley Scott again; he's a very talented and passionate filmmaker. And I think it would be very interesting to revisit the character.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Good
  • Work
  • Character

• I'm almost tempted, when I'm playing a real person, not to meet them. Afterwards, maybe. But, the job is the same. You still have to show up on screen and be alive and real and all that stuff.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Up
  • Real
  • Job

• But we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • You
  • Find
  • Fog

• I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Experience
  • Know
  • Like

• My career has been full of remarkable coincidences that have nothing to do with me.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Career
  • Me
  • Nothing

• When you're a big sister, it's a great job. I don't know how little sisters feel about their job, but when you're a big sister, you're supposed to take care of everything. And you feel good about it. I do.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Good
  • Great
  • Job

• It's the reality: film is a director's medium, and, ultimately, they are the ones that are in charge, and you have to respect that because somebody has to be in charge. But, yeah, you do reach a point where you want to have your voice come out.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Reality
  • Respect
  • Voice

• After about 1940, scientists generally stopped looking for elements in nature. Instead, they had to create them by smashing smaller atoms together.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Together
  • Nature
  • Looking

• My mother was a union member. She was a mail carrier, a rural mail carrier. She called herself a 'postal packin' grandma' for a good period of time.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Time
  • Good
  • She

• I like watching films when I don't know anything about the people.

  

  Keira Knightley
  • People

• Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

  

  Noam Chomsky
  • Language
  • Politicians
  • Weapon

• A great song is something that you go back to in twenty years and it's still so influential to you.

  

  Georgia Nott Broods
  • Song
  • Influential
  • Go Back

• People's blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Work
  • Power

• You don't get everything you want. That doesn't exist in this realm.

  

  Adriana Trigiani