John Niven Quotes

I am, it is safe to say, not a practical man. The few attempts I've made to hammer in a nail have ended in broken thumbs, burst pipes, and water spraying everywhere with the house on fire.

John Niven

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WaterFireManBrokenI AmHouse

For the last five or six years the most important thing in my life has been my family.

Jimmy Connors

LifeFamilyMy LifeImportantYears

I think people make certain assumptions about what they're interested in reading or what others would be interested in reading, and when they think of poor black people in the South, they don't think people are interested in reading about those people.

Jesmyn Ward

PeopleReadingBlackThinkPoor

As a mother I think you often get so caught up in trying to take care of everyone else that you forget to take care of yourself. But I'm a much better wife and mother when I take the time to take care of myself.

Mia Hamm

MotherTimeMyselfWifeYourself

I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should.

Stephen Dorff

BooksReadSomeShouldManyScripts

As far as wrestling goes, as long as my body is able to withstand the physical beating, I will keep wrestling.

Trish Stratus

LongBodyWillWrestlingKeepAble

I'm often accused of hiring people with civil rights experience, and I do plead guilty to that.

Tom Perez

ExperiencePeopleGuiltyCivil Rights

As long as I continue to put forth who I am and what I believe, than I think it all balances out.

Lou Gramm

I AmBelieveThinkLongI Believe

Rogue economics is a sort of umbrella under which we find the criminal economy, the illegal economy, but also those gray areas, gray areas where there is not a proper regulation, where there is not legislation for the economy.

Loretta Napoleoni

EconomicsFindGrayEconomyCriminal

I'm more into MMA than any other sport. I watch a lot of the UFC fights. I have since it first came onto the scene.

Jason Statham

MoreFirstWatchMMAThanUFC

Film is the most liberal of arts and, at the same time, it can be a very conservative art. Money that is involved in filmmaking is distributed mostly to men, thus creating a celluloid ceiling for women.

Jasmila Zbanic

WomenTimeArtMoneyMenFilmmaking

You don't have to be one of those people that accepts things as they are. Every day, take responsibility for changing them right where you are.

Cory Booker

ResponsibilityDayPeopleYouRight

I've been in, like, kids' clubs... I've been in the Boom Boom Room in New York, and the kids are going, 'Oh my God, you produced 'Arrested Development?'' They aren't talking about 'A Beautiful Mind' or '24.' It's like the only thing in my whole career was 'Arrested Development,' literally.

Brian Grazer

GodBeautifulNew YorkMindTalking

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