Carol Leifer Quotes

My father was the king of the joke-tellers. I was so impressed as a child watching him, holding people in rapt attention.

Carol Leifer

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• My health is fine.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• A teacher should have a creative mind.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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  • Teacher
  • Creative

• If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • World
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  • Revolution

• And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • God
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• I can stay up watching TV so late.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Up
  • I Can
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• I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Life
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• I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.

  

  Tamala Jones
  • Good
  • Job
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• If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • You
  • Charity
  • Improve

• It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Star

• I'd never been published when I was young.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Never
  • Young
  • Published

• You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.

  

  Sam J. Jones
  • Career
  • You
  • Reach

• I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably made before I was born, and I was born in the mid-'70s. I don't know why, exactly, I'm drawn to those sounds.

  

  M. Ward
  • Inspiration
  • Records
  • Sounds

• Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Sometimes
  • Lyrics

• The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Up
  • Different
  • Together

• No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Daily
  • Memory
  • Journalism

• I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Time
  • Model
  • Actress

• I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Thought

• My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Black
  • Feeling
  • Food

• When all else fails, throw a party!

  

  Eugene Walter
  • Party
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• From here, our people begin the march towards establishing an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • People
  • Independent
  • March

• Our Soviet writer must be guided in his world only by the need of the people, useful for the society.

  

  Vasily Grossman
  • People
  • World
  • Society

• The Lord's Prayer reminds us that God longs for His people to communicate with Him, not just in church on Sunday, but wherever we are and whatever our need.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • People
  • God
  • Church

• I came to claim my kingdom and you refused me because I was not one of you. Now I am one of you, my subjects, we are bound by blood, and I deserve to be your king. Your sins and your remorse, your mighty anguish, I take all upon myself. Fear your dead no more, they are my dead.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Fear
  • King

• My father was the king of the joke-tellers. I was so impressed as a child watching him, holding people in rapt attention.

  

  Carol Leifer
  • People
  • Children
  • Father