Martha Plimpton Quotes

We don't want to come off as pro-smoking. Even though we didn't smoke real cigarettes at all, you want to be careful of people's sensitivities.

Martha Plimpton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: model
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 16, 1970

Topics

PeopleYouSmokeWantRealOff

I listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them.

John D. Voelker

MotherMeLovedKidStoriesThem

You'll never see me at the launch of the new PlayStation or some club. For me, the fun stuff is being able to get my mom tickets to 'Dancing With the Stars' - she loves Mario Lopez.

America Ferrera

StarsFunMeMomYouNew

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.

Tom Landry

LeadershipSomeoneAchieveWant

Some people, no matter how robust their stock portfolios or how healthy their children, are always mentally preparing for doom. They are just born worriers, their brains forever anticipating the dropping of some dreaded other shoe.

Robin Marantz Henig

ChildrenPeopleBornHealthyShoe

I love breakfast, and I don't see any reason it has to be cereal and eggs and toast.

Ruth Reichl

LoveBreakfastReasonSeeEggsAny

Too often we just look at these glistening successes. Behind them in many, many cases is failure along the way, and that doesn't get put into the Wikipedia story or the bio. Yet those failures teach you every bit as much as the successes.

Michael Mullen

FailureStoryYouLookTeachWay

I developed the concept of the Happy Warrior as a rallying cry for those of us who want to restore America to its great foundational principles: individual freedom, personal responsibility, fiscal restraint, and economic liberty.

Monica Crowley

FreedomGreatResponsibilityHappy

The left-leaning thinking that dominates the movie business follows a common liberal instinct to deny the spiritual dimension to every problem, thereby profoundly compounding the difficulties.

Michael Medved

BusinessSpiritualThinkingProblem

I like to be fulfilled in telling stories and in creating, but I'm just a curious person.

Jay Ellis

CuriousCreatingPersonJustLike

We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.

Christopher Alexander

HarmonyKindTwoSearchingContext

Fox News never calls up Bobby Seale to articulate a stance in opposition to right-wing conservatives. To me, giving the New Black Panthers a platform on Fox is a subtle tactic to scare people.

Bobby Seale

PeopleMeBlackGivingNewsNew

My family have been wool merchants since the 19th century. My first job, aged 18, was buying fabric from my father to produce and sell ties. But I was also at university in Milan.

Pier Luigi Loro Piana

FamilyFatherJobFirstUniversity

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