Pretty Quotes

• I gather that a lot of the "pots" in the great museum in Baghdad, which we allowed to be looted and then gutted, are now for sale to the highest bidder on the art and archeology black market. This is good capitalism, I guess, while a museum, being a public trust and accessible to all, is anticapitalist, pretty damn near socialist in fact.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Good
  • Great
  • Art

• The rating agencies historically actually did a pretty good job rating regular bonds.

  

  Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • Good
  • Job
  • Pretty

• We've had a pretty good season, ... The boys did a good job, they put up good numbers and it was good enough to win.

  

  Garry Moore
  • Up
  • Good
  • Job

• I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed up for Patti Smith, and then the director Michel Gondry got on the drums to play some songs from the soundtrack to his film Be Kind Rewind with Mos Def. It was pretty mad.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Up
  • Band
  • Mad

• The promos with all of the beautiful women probably attracted some men, but the mystery story line is pretty cool. It's got that dark edge, and people will watch anything funny.

  

  James Denton
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• I started this whole endeavor really. And at the beginning we had the selection in Italy. And that was pretty much among people that had held previous experience in that particular satellite. So, I was in that, in a good position then.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • People
  • Good
  • Experience

• That's my name. I know it's difficult, and it's not pretty, but it's my name.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Pretty

• I always felt like Tahliah's a very grown-up name to have. It's a pretty name when you're young, and then I think when I became a young lady, it felt kind of like a lot to grow into for some reason. I don't know. It sounds kind of regal. I never really liked it. I always felt like I couldn't live up to it.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Up
  • Live
  • Name

• I learned how to shoot when I was pretty little.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Pretty
  • Little
  • How

• I've had some pretty stimulating conversations about where we are politically as a result of this movie [Snowden], but then there are a lot of questions just about that sensationalism of it.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Movie
  • Conversation
  • Results

• I TiVo 'CSI,' 'CSI: Miami,' 'Grey's Anatomy,' 'Young and The Restless' - my husband hates that one - and that's pretty much it.

  

  Lindsay Davenport
  • Pretty
  • Husband

• I'm sorry, but I can't imagine being an American icon! It would be pretty difficult to look at your face in the mirror and think of yourself as that without laughing and spitting toothpaste all over!

  

  Jane Pauley
  • American
  • Mirror
  • Sorry

• We all get old, but I always say the skinny, pretty girls will be screwed.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Say
  • Will
  • Old

• But the mechanics of learning to 'throw your voice' are pretty simple. Anyone with a tongue, an upper palate, teeth, and a normal speaking voice can learn ventriloquism.

  

  Jeff Dunham
  • Pretty
  • Simple
  • Learning

• There's something about that puritanical narrative of progress and upward mobility and work ethic that the glorification of abstinence fits pretty neatly into. That pairs with the fact that 12-step recovery has had too large a monopoly on how treatment is understood in America.

  

  Leslie Jamison
  • Work
  • America
  • Progress

• At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.

  

  Ted Rall
  • American
  • Pretty
  • Point

• I look back at my filmography, and I'm pretty jazzed with the stuff I've been part of. They're all movies I'd like to see.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Pretty

• I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Art
  • Always
  • Kid

• I wound up getting my degree in sports medicine and nutrition because I wanted to work in the medical field. But I wound up taking a trip to Los Angeles and decided being an actor sounds pretty cool, too.

  

  Derek Theler
  • Up
  • Work
  • Cool

• I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Sorry

• If my eyebrows are cool, if my eyeliner is popping, if I'm moisturized, then I can pretty much wear whatever I want. I think if your hair and your face are together, I think it's pretty much polished!

  

  Kehlani
  • Together
  • Cool
  • Hair

• If people are really hateful and disgusting in the way they treat other people, that probably came from a hurt place - but then, when does it stop? When does this spiral end? Sometimes you can get pretty melancholic about that.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • People
  • Stop
  • Hurt

• If you listen to The Browns, it's a very pretty sound. It was sibling harmony, a sound that was very pleasing. I've never heard anybody that could come close to that particular sound. It couldn't be imitated.

  

  Jim Ed Brown
  • Pretty
  • Sibling

• I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Look
  • Young
  • Company

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