Viola Davis Quotes

I didn't aspire to be just a celebrity; I aspired to be an actress... I always wanted to be respected as someone who knew their craft.

Viola Davis

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SomeoneCelebrityCraftAlwaysJust

After we were married, we were broke. Flat broke. Not only did we not have health insurance, we could barely keep a roof over our heads, let alone have the kind of coin to throw around on onesies and Pampers.

Jen Lancaster

AloneHealthInsuranceKindRoof

There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?

Andrea Jung

ChangeLeaderBusinessMorningEyes

I'm not here to impose Sharia law, and I'm not here to have a message about disability being inspirational - I'm here to make people laugh. But when I can layer things and make people not only laugh but question, make people not only laugh but be offended... I have to do that.

Maysoon Zayid

InspirationalPeopleLawLaughI Can

It's been the video game ever since I got out of coaching. Even when I was an announcer, fewer and fewer people remembered me as 'Coach,' and as the years went on, people just started knowing me from the game.

John Madden

PeopleMeGameCoachingKnowingOut

Religious people... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too often, they will not extend that spirit to our fellow creatures.

Matthew Scully

LifeFaithBrokenPeopleViewKind

Unless those of us who love our wives (and thus, our lives) make a conscious change to the way we speak of them, unless we begin choosing to elevate and praise our spouses instead of denigrate, we will be letting an incredibly corrosive, self-perpetuating societal meme destroy the very institution that defines our lives.

Steven Crowder

LoveChangeSpeakWillWayMeme

What made me a comedian was that I wasn't really a songwriter, I was more of a poet.

Tommy Chong

MeMorePoetSongwriterMadeReally

It's not like the right for gay people to marry just happened.

Matt Bomer

PeopleGayRightJustLikeHappened

I began to meet young men and women who talked about having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, and while I cherish my Catholic upbringing and the foundation that it poured in my faith, that had not been a part of my experience.

Mike Pence

WomenFaithRelationshipExperience

I am not a passenger in anything I do.

Derek Fisher

I AmAnythingPassengerAm

'Liv and Maddie' is very near and dear to my heart. I'm very proud of it.

Dove Cameron

HeartProudDearVeryNear

VA is a unique national resource that is worth saving, and I am committed to doing just that.

David Shulkin

I AmDoingWorthUniqueJustAm

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