Drew Barrymore Quotes

You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.

Drew Barrymore

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 22, 1975

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Think how different it is to experience a word than a sound. When you're hearing a singer, you're controlled by the words, because you understand the language, you know what they're talking about, and you're forced to think about what they're talking about. But when you're hearing that same thing without a word, you're free to wander.

Jenny Scheinman

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I love to act. I want to be doing this forever, and I love to learn from people who I think are better.

Jenna Dewan

LovePeopleThinkBetterLearnWant

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

Robert Penn Warren

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Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

Christopher Hitchens

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As an economic historian, I appreciate what manufacturing has contributed to the United States. It was the engine of growth that allowed us to win two world wars and provided millions of families with a ticket to the middle class. But public policy needs to go beyond sentiment and history.

Christina Romer

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I'm not one of those people who believes in going endlessly around finger wagging and ticking people off for occasional colourful use of language.

Boris Johnson

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The first time I heard Richard Pryor, I knew he would be a major force in the world of comedy.

Bob Newhart

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A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman.

Prince Philip

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I know as much as anyone how much her most fervent supporters want Hillary Clinton to run for president.

Tina Brown

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The '70s kind of sucked.

Richard Linklater

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The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision.

Niklaus Wirth

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I learned so much about playing and touring being on the road and in the studio with Jeff, but I'd always played a lot of gigs in Seattle even prior to joining the Fusion.

Kenny G

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