Jeanette Winterson Quotes

I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.

Jeanette Winterson

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LifeThinkPricePrivate LifeOpen

I married a woman who's not going to take anything. No slips. She's very accountable, and she holds me very accountable.

Joe Nichols

WomanMeSheAnythingTakeGoing

For me, I guess I'm the acting equivalent of somebody that jumps off buildings and parachutes.

Joaquin Phoenix

MeBuildingsActingOffSomebody

We live inside our universe and cannot get a bird's-eye view of it from outside. And we cannot even see all of our universe. Distant parts of it are expanding away from us so fast that they are invisible; they go faster than the speed of light. Having bigger telescopes to see fainter stars will not help us here: invisible is truly invisible.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

StarsLiveLightUniverseViewHelp

Music is something that you really have to want to do it, and there has to be a reason behind it.

John Gourley

MusicYouWantReasonSomething

Nobody destroys people - people destroy themselves, and it's very, very sad.

John Catsimatidis

SadPeopleNobodyDestroyDestroys

I'm always disappointed when people don't live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

Maya Angelou

ChangeLivePeoplePotentialLook

Paul Rudd is ripped.

Michael Douglas

RippedPaul

I focus on spiritual wealth now, and I'm busier, more enthusiastic, and more joyful than I have ever been.

John Templeton

FocusSpiritualWealthNowMore

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

John Philip Sousa

MusicI CanWriteAlwaysPencilAny

Other brands I like besides Versace... Tom Ford makes incredible suits. I love the glasses as well. I have a plethora of Tom Ford shades. Who else do I like? Dolce & Gabbana, Dior Homme.

Trey Songz

LoveGlassesSuitsShadesWellLike

My parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left.

Mike Wallace

FreedomSunParentsRoseBostonUp

I would love to be married. But it's not a necessity like the way that I feel I need and want to have children. It would be wonderful to have a husband, and I would feel blessed to do it. But I would feel sad for the rest of my life if I had no kids.

Mindy Kaling

LifeLoveSadChildrenBlessedRest

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