Carmen Dell'Orefice Quotes

Even with a computer, I can't get rid of all the papers in my life.

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• Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Cool
  • Voice
  • Bold

• True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Live
  • True
  • Food

• Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Waiting
  • Playing
  • Nervous

• I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Family
  • Business
  • Funny

• It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Great
  • Think
  • Me

• Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.

  

  Osman Rashid
  • Learning
  • Key
  • Digital

• Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Character
  • Society
  • Political

• Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Book
  • Picture

• I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Age
  • Lead
  • Landscape

• My schedule is so crazy.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Crazy
  • Schedule

• The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Reason
  • Enemy
  • Grandparents

• My dad met my mom at Casper College in the orientation line. He studied business and eventually transferred to the University of Wyoming at Laramie.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Business
  • Dad
  • College

• Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Virtue
  • Empathy
  • Judicial

• In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • You
  • Nation
  • Become

• Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Protection
  • Deception
  • Fraud

• I don't really see myself as an actor.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Myself
  • Actor
  • See

• A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Good
  • Travel
  • Plans

• Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

  

  Mae West
  • Office
  • Reward
  • Box

• The safest thing is always to try to convert everything that is in us and around us into action; let the others talk and argue about it as they please.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Action
  • Argue
  • Convert

• I want what's mine. I see other actors who are doing very interesting roles, and I just want to continue to do things that are interesting, and things that people will go see in theaters.

  

  Derek Luke
  • People
  • Interesting

• It's brutal out on the football field.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Football
  • Field
  • Brutal

• What politicians do is they never get the rhetoric wrong, and the price they pay is they don't speak the truth as they see it. Now, I will speak truth as I see it, and sometimes I don't get the rhetoric right. I think that's a fair trade-off.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Truth

• It's the unusual leading man. Most of the Hollywood leading men are powerful and capable and strong, heroes. He has this vulnerability, he's fragile, he struggles to find a way to live from day to day that we can identify with, that we can understand.

  

  Mark Rydell
  • Men
  • Live
  • Strong

• Even with a computer, I can't get rid of all the papers in my life.

  

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