Tom Bodett Quotes

My work is still very much light-hearted, positive outlook, laugh at yourself. But it isn't going to be the laugh-a-minute kind of thing that my early work was.

Tom Bodett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 23, 1955

Topics

PositiveWorkYourselfLaughEarly

My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.

Jimmy Wales

GoodCommunityFreedomWalkNight

Mothers have always held such symbolic weight in determining a person's worth. Your mother tongue, your motherland, your mother's values - these things can qualify or disqualify you from attaining myriad American dreams: love, fluency, citizenship, legitimacy, acceptance, success, freedom.

Jenny Zhang

LoveSuccessMotherDreamsFreedom

It's important to show children love, affection and balance and invest time in their moral upbringing.

John Caudwell

LoveChildrenTimeBalanceMoral

Just going through a marriage and a divorce - which I essentially did by 21 - will give you an insane amount of perspective on life.

Solange Knowles

LifeMarriagePerspectiveYouWill

For all the sophistication of a world in which most of our waking hours are spent consuming or interacting with media, we have scarcely advanced in our understanding of what attention means.

Tom Chatfield

WorldUnderstandingMediaAttention

It's sensational to be a part of a series that takes on a life of its own.

Robert Wagner

LifeOwnPartTakesSensational

I was always a big fan of the books and over the years I've become quite attached to Ron and we've meshed into the same person, really.

Rupert Grint

PersonBecomeSameAlwaysOverBig

It blows me away the number of truck drivers or macho guys that will call, and then I start peeling back the layers, and I find out they've been listening to me for 10 or 15 years, and they know every lyric to every sappy song.

Delilah

MeListeningTruckSongStartFind

I'd love to work with Steve Martin. I'd love to work with Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd.

Chris Pratt

WorkLoveBill MurrayDanBill

More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed.

Brian Lamb

OpportunityPeopleStupidSociety

I want to make sure that my writing grips the reader from the word 'go.'

Ashwin Sanghi

WritingGoWantSureMakeWord

Policy is about real people and real stories, and sometimes we forget that.

Pramila Jayapal

PeopleForgetSometimesRealPolicy

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