Cloris Leachman Quotes

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• Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Harmony
  • Florida
  • Rocket

• Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Money
  • Madness
  • Collective

• Sometimes I like to watch TV, though I never get to watch any of the shows in real time. I'm a fan of 'Downton Abbey,' 'Boardwalk Empire,' and 'Boss.' There's a British series called 'Luther,' but in England, they think a series means four episodes. And I like 'Mad Men.' Otherwise, it's always good to unwind with a book.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Time
  • Good
  • Men

• If I can help and influence girls who are going through body-image issues then I think that's amazing.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Help
  • Amazing
  • Influence

• My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I've seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film 'Annie,' and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Father
  • Forever
  • Dance

• I have felt that connection and stewardship for Earth for as long as I can remember. And not just for Earth, but the whole universe.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Earth

• I think, like any artist, those baby songs are not the best things you've ever written, but they count because they're you're first attempts at creating art and expressing yourself.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Art
  • Best
  • Baby

• Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Love
  • Passion
  • Poetry

• Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Work
  • Mean
  • Say

• It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Information
  • Management

• I'm not a one-issue person.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Person

• I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Work
  • Think
  • Turn

• My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Life
  • Writing
  • America

• Yes, Heathrow is the U.K.'s busiest airport, but new runways or a new airport are not the answer. It is far better to focus on improving capacity.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Focus
  • Better
  • New

• It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Golf
  • Impossible

• If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • People
  • Real
  • Control

• Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • History
  • Political

• I'm very active, wild woman.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Woman
  • Active
  • WIld

• Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call "humble" nowadays: he will not be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who is always telling you that, of course, he is a nobody. Probably all you will think about him is that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap who took a real interest in what you said to him.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Real
  • Intelligent

• Roy Acuff was a big hero for me, and I was so sad when he passed. It's hard as you get older to lose your friends and family.

  

  George Jones Mr. President (band)
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Sad

• Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman in the world, and it's wonderful that she didn't cut up her face. She addressed aging by picking up her chin and receiving the light in a better way. And she looked like a woman. She never tried to look like a girl.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • World
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Help
  • Like
  • Journalism

• Everything is so sad and so wonderful.

  

  Cloris Leachman
  • Sad
  • Wonderful