Tina Yothers Quotes

My parents were involved in everything I did. They were showbiz people themselves. My dad was an actor. They were parents; they did what parents are supposed to do.

Tina Yothers

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At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior.

John Carmack

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To know God's name is to know God.

Stanley Hauerwas

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I someday hope to find the time and coin to invest more of my creative energy towards the visual media side of releasing music.

Sturgill Simpson

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My first media interview was when I was a high school freshman and I was set to compete at state champs. The interview was the first occasion people had heard me on TV. When I watched back the recording on TV, I thought, 'Wow, is that what I sound like?' I didn't like the sound of my voice.

Michelle Carter

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Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective.

Julia Cameron

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The for-profit college industry is clearly the single-heaviest subsidized business in America. More than any defense contractor or any farm operation... So many of them are a horrible waste of students' time and of taxpayer dollars.

Dick Durbin

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Anne Baxter

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I'm an inventor. I don't enjoy running the business.

Woody Norris

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Everybody is an expert on one thing - that's what I learned in my high school journalism class - and that's, of course, his own life. And everybody deserves to live and have his story told. And if it doesn't seem like an interesting story, then that's the failure of the listener, or the journalist who retells it badly.

William T. Vollmann

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I can take the spotlight that shines on me and shift it towards those issues that are infinitely more important than my own issues.

Shakira

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My wife... now travels with me everywhere - not because she nearly lost me, but because my kids are all grown up and my son is now a very successful actor, Rafe Spall.

Timothy Spall

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No one is asking for an Oprah in Chief. Anyhow, Obama is too chilly by nature ever to be convincing as a human care package.

Tina Brown

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