Robert Fulghum Quotes

The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.

Robert Fulghum

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I've had so many bad auditions! I tell people all the time, there's differences, what makes an audition good or what makes an audition bad. Sometimes you're just off, and there's not a whole lot you can do about it.

Jessie Usher

GoodTimePeopleYouBadSometimes

If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.

John Dos Passos

MyselfRomanticPeopleMeLongTalk

I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism.

Andy Dick

ChildhoodPainPeopleThinkLaugh

I use the computer as a tool. Like chance or the camera or the other tools I've used, it can open my eye to other ways of seeing or of making dances. It's not simply to do a trick.

Merce Cunningham

EyeChanceToolsCameraSeeingOpen

'Red Hook Summer' is another chapter in my chronicles of Brooklyn.

Spike Lee

RedBrooklynSummerChapterHook

Somebody must be up and somebody must be down. Trouble is, campaigns are messy, subtle creatures that don't follow convenient narratives.

Ron Fournier

DownTroubleMessyFollowUpMust

If you try to live as well as you can, then hopefully your face will reflect that. But it's unfair that we put so much pressure on women to look good and then give them so much stick when they go under the knife to achieve this.

Diana Quick

GoodWomenLiveFacePressureLook

You don't know when you're being watched. That's one of the weird things about celebrity. It's my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.

Denzel Washington

WeirdYouActingKnowCelebrity

It is characteristic that this should take place just when it is becoming more and more clear to all who think about the matter, that technically and economically we have left the territorial state behind us.

Christian Lous Lange

ThinkPlaceMatterMoreTakeLeft

People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.

Ricky Gervais

PeopleTargetSameJokeConfuse

I'm ambitious and I'm determined and I know where I'm going to be. It's not where I want to be, but where I'm going to be.

Ricky Whittle

KnowWantDeterminedWhereGoing

If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations.

Nora Roberts

ExpectationsYouKnowingWrite

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