Ken Howard Quotes

After 'The White Shadow' was over, I did some more work, but then I wound up taking a year off to teach at Harvard. It afforded me the chance to have a variegated career - a very interesting one.

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• But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Truth

• If I see a now-28-year-old woman coming up to me, she's probably thinking of 'Juno' because she watched it with her parents when she was 18 years old.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • She

• People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • People
  • World
  • Character

• I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Power
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Happiness
  • Scratch
  • Itch

• I wanted passionately to be a priest.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Wanted
  • Priest
  • Passionately

• As far as I'm concerned, 'The Caretaker' is funny up to a point. Beyond that, it ceases to be funny, and it was because of that point that I wrote it.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Up
  • Funny
  • Point

• The writer, the poet, the novelist, are all creators. This does not mean that they invent language; it means that they use language to create beauty, ideas, images. This is why we cannot do without them.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Why
  • Ideas
  • Language

• People ask where writers get ideas.Take my advice. Some cool, clear night, drive to a country place where city lights don’t block your view. Turn off the car lights. Get out and look up. And see our real neighborhood.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• The Egyptian officers informed me that I would be denied entry, and I was soon deported back to Yemen on the same plane on which I had arrived. The authorities gave me no clear answer why: They said that I knew the reason for my deportation better than them, and that my name had been blacklisted based on the request of a security body.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Why

• My girls turned out great.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Great

• What I think makes people nerds is just being obsessive. I think that's what nerdiness really is - its people who don't just passively like something, they get passionate about whatever they like.

  

  Brian Posehn
  • People

• I'd never seen Rigondeaux's face without it being obscured by headgear or a photograph of Fidel he was holding up after winning a tournament. Finally I saw him, only to recognize the saddest face I'd ever seen in Cuba.

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler
  • Up
  • Winning

• I don't read blogs, I don't have MySpace, I don't have Facebook or Twitter - none of that.

  

  Jessica Szohr

• Trump enabled, allowed, peddled to, and promoted the worst in America - racism, division, discrimination, misogyny - during his campaign. I will never forget or forgive him for that.

  

  Ana Navarro
  • America
  • Trump
  • Racism

• Rap is supposed to be about keeping it real and not relinquishing your roots in the community. Without that, it's just posturing. Somebody who claims to speak for the 'hood don't need no private jet.

  

  Chuck D
  • Real
  • Community
  • Rap

• I get along fine with the press.

  

  Kevin Pietersen

• Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.

  

  Douglas William Jerrold
  • People
  • Luck

• You can't sing about love unless you know about it.

  

  Billy Eckstine

• We might all be so afraid to be who we are, but in the end, it's really you're individual, unique qualities that make you attractive to people.

  

  Christina Ricci
  • People
  • Unique

• I alone am different from the others, because I am nourished by the great mother.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Different
  • Mother
  • Nourished

• I have scored some big-time goals. I've done well in Algarve Cups. I've done well in World Cup and Olympic qualifiers, Olympics. In big games when we're playing top-five teams. But yet, you never see my face or my name out there. And it has frustrated me my entire career.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Time
  • World
  • Done

• Right now the music is more of a hobby since I'm making a good living as an actress.

  

  Amy Jo Johnson
  • Good
  • Music

• After 'The White Shadow' was over, I did some more work, but then I wound up taking a year off to teach at Harvard. It afforded me the chance to have a variegated career - a very interesting one.

  

  Ken Howard
  • Career
  • Interesting
  • Chance