Mines Quotes - Page 28

• A friend of mine who works for naval intelligence said an aerial satellite revealed that 1.9 million attended the event in 1995. But if they would have had a rumble at the march the newspapers would have said that 75 million Afro-Americans were there.

  Dick Gregory

  Intelligence, Events, Afros

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• The Prime Minister is stealing our clothes but he is going to look pretty ridiculous walking around in mine.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Clothes, Looks, Ridiculous

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• What novel - or what else in the world - can have the epic scope of a photograph album? May our Father in Heaven, the untiring amateur who each Sunday snaps us from above, at an unfortunate angle that makes for hideous foreshortening, and pastes our pictures, properly exposed or not, in his album, guide me safely through this album of mine.

  Gunter Grass

  Father, Sunday, Epic

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• I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Streets, Ifs

  Andy Warhol (1987). “Warhol shadows”, Menil Foundation

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• With my doctor, I don't get no respect. I told him I want a vasectomy. He said with a face like mine, I don't need one.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Respect, Doctors, Needs

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• When I first came out, I thought, I want to walk like a real woman, I don't want to do mincing steps. And there was some girl I saw walking up Holloway Road in Islington who had this long languid walk and I thought, that's what I like, so I incorporated her walk into mine.

  Eddie Izzard

  Girl, Real, Long

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are two kinds of photographs: mine and other people's. I never think of what I might do myself when I look at someone else's pictures... there is no subject in the world I have ever wanted to photograph. It's the picture, not the object, that is important to me.

  John Loengard

  Thinking, Two, People

  John Loengard (1987). “Pictures under discussion”, Amphoto Books

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• They say a man should be judged by his enemies. I am very proud of mine.

  Michael Heseltine

  Men, Enemy, Proud

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• My comedy is not mine. It's a gift. I'm not that smart.

  Tim Allen

  Smart, Comedy

  "Tim Allen: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 2011.

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• Women in the workplace - we still have big strides to make. Girlfriend of mine just got a new job. First question the new boss asked her was if she could make a good cup of coffee... Yeah, she stormed right out of that Starbucks.

  Carol Leifer

  Girlfriend, Jobs, Coffee

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• Traveling is a great love of mine. I love South America and Africa. I'm your ultimate backpacker when I'm away. It's just me and my backpack. It's good for getting away from the industry.

  Matthew McConaughey

  America, Great Love, Get Away

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I got into the business all by chance. I really enjoy what I do now, but it wasn't always a huge dream of mine. I think I always had thought about it growing up, though.

  Jaimie Alexander

  Dream, Growing Up, Thinking

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• A friend of mine had his own theatre company, and he jumped me in like I was in a gang. And once I came in, it was just that simple. For the first time in my life, I felt, 'This is a career, this is a life that I think I can grow old doing.' It was love at first sight. I loved being on stage and reading these plays. It was great.

  David Alan Grier

  Reading, Thinking, Simple

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• Why would we want to keep a tax cut that's failed? Why would we not want to go back to the Clinton tax code? And why would we not want to help every family more with a health-care plan like mine? Let's help average people. Let's be Democrats.

  Dick Gephardt

  Cutting, Average, People

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• Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.

  Salma Hayek

  Hair, Style, Trying

  "Oprah Talks to Salma Hayek". www.oprah.com. September 2003.

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• Mine was not pop art. I maybe started with a subject, but I changed the subject.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Art, Pops, Changed

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If your taste goes wrong or you listen to other people's tastes too much, even though they could make a fantastic movie out of it with their own tastes, if they blend their tastes with mine, it's probably going to be a mess.

  Andre Øvredal

  People, Too Much, Taste

  Source: collider.com

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• I always cringe when a male friend of mine, who's very fixated on women, puts "compatibility" at the top of his list of attributes that he would be looking for in a woman. I would replace compatibility with dialectic.

  James Ellroy

  Males, Would Be, Lists

  Interview by Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 9, 2010.

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• I don't even know where mine [Oscar award] is. My mother has hidden it because everybody who comes in wants to take a photograph of it. So what she's done is she put it inside a suitcase somewhere.

  A. R. Rahman

  Mother, Awards, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have to make.

  Charles Baxter

  Character, Choices, Stories

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I think that becoming a parent absolutely changes your entire life and certainly changes your work, and it has changed mine. It just allows you to have access to your emotions, even more than you already did. You're watching this little person grow in front of you, and you realize that you're seeing how precious life is and how quickly it goes. You get to things faster, even emotionally. I'm not as timid about reaching into some areas in myself and bringing that to my work.

  Sasha Alexander

  Thinking, Parent, How Precious Life Is

  Source: collider.com

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• Singing has opened so many doors for me. And that's definitely a true passion of mine. It's a natural, God-given gift.

  V. Bozeman

  Passion, Doors, Singing

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I always feel I have made unfilmable books. I even felt that way about a book of mine that was later made into a movie. But my wife, who has made two films, thinks this one would make a very original film. I'm all for original films.

  Rick Moody

  Book, Thinking, Two

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Friend of mine just told me he used to be a bad alcoholic. I calmed him down. Told him he was a good alcoholic just a horrible drinker.

  Bob Saget

  Used, Horrible, Alcoholics

  Twitter post from Dec 01, 2012

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• The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every [writer] thinks, "I'm the journalist who's going to make him talk". I pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine!

  Ricky Martin

  Gay, Thinking, Community

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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