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Richard Jenkins Quotes

I was an only child, and I spent a lot of time alone. My dad was an only child, too, so we didn't have a big family, and I was really close with both of my parents. Like any kid, I thought I knew more than they did.

Richard Jenkins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: May 4, 1947

Topics

Family Alone Time Child Parents Kid

No one can tell you what to do or push you around. It gives you a secure feeling. That's the best thing about money.

Joe Mansueto

Best Money Push You Feeling Tell

If I could still play, I would be trying. It's been 15 years.

Joe Montana

Trying Play Years If I Could Been

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Joe E. Lewis

Mistake Almost Once Afford Any

It makes a lot of sense to me that I would be a cartoon. I feel like a cartoon as a person. I really, really do.

Jenny Slate

Me Feel Person Cartoon Sense Would

If the quality and quantity of continuous effort toward goals matters as much as I think it does, we may actually get more productive, not less, as we get older - even if we can't pull all-nighters like we used to.

Angela Duckworth

Goals Quality Effort Think Matters

When we build our own colonies, we can do them in near-Earth vicinity, because people are going to want to come back to Earth. Very few people - for a long time, anyway - are going to want to abandon Earth altogether.

Jeff Bezos

Time People Long Back Earth Want

I think it is going to be very difficult to be a company in silos. I think the game has changed. We won't define our success by looking at the competitors but at how satisfied are our customers, how engaged are our internal stakeholders, and how good is our product pipeline.

Michael Dell

Success Good Looking Game Think

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

Stendhal

Men Woman Youth Loved Her Something

Some of the writers I've praised are Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Elisabeth George and Minette Walters. Strangely enough, almost all are women.

Stieg Larsson

Women Enough Almost Some Praised

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

Mary Wollstonecraft

Own Rational Being How Any Thing

Mutual forbearance and reciprocal concessions: thro' their agency the Union was established - the patriotic spirit from which they emanated will forever sustain it.

Martin Van Buren

Will Spirit Forever Union Agency

What was nice for me was that when I got to secondary school - like high school - I met many other Ghanaian schoolgirls whose parents were also born in Ghana and were raising them here. We automatically had a huge kinship that was amazing.

Michaela Coel

Diversity Weird Comedy Problem Back