Emma Thompson Quotes

A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.

Emma Thompson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 15, 1959

Topics

LiveCommunityCultureNew YorkGay

Difficult times require difficult decisions. But supporting this bill shouldn't be a difficult decision.

Jim Bunning

DecisionDecisionsDifficultTimes

I have a lot of tea in the morning. I always have toast and peanut butter.

Joanna Coles

MorningTeaAlwaysPeanut ButterLot

Being a filmmaker in the digital platform has given me complete creative control. I can make what I want, when I want. I don't have to wait to book an audition.

Anna Akana

CreativeMeWaitControlBookI Can

I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.

Jeff Bingaman

FamilySupportImmigrationThree

Sometimes if you get 'em too drunk they don't pay no attention to what you're doin' anyways, so you might as well just do old songs. But if you get one that's paying attention, sometimes we'll do some new material.

Merle Haggard

AttentionYouDrunkNewSometimes

The Christians tried to separate themselves from the Jewish crowd so they wouldn't be the recipients of the persecution of the Romans. And the way they did it was to say, the Jews killed our hero too. And so Christians began to define themselves over against the orthodox party of the Jews as a way of surviving against the Roman onslaught.

John Shelby Spong

HeroPartySayWayOverJewish

You know, you can touch a stick of dynamite, but if you touch a venomous snake it'll turn around and bite you and kill you so fast it's not even funny.

Steve Irwin

FunnySnakeYouFastKnowTouch

I love eating. Unfortunately, I have to be really determined and control my foodie temptations. That is the only thing I don't like about being an actress; the constant need to check my weight. Otherwise, I love my job!

Sonam Kapoor

LoveJobControlEatingNeedCheck

I've never used one word of profanity in front of my wife, or my daughter, or my granddaughter... or anybody else's wife.

Tommy Lasorda

DaughterWifeGranddaughterNever

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

Miguel de Cervantes

ConversationWrongSayRightForever

No man was ever wise by chance.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

WisdomManWiseChanceEver

I probably had some impact, because everyone keeps telling me that I did. I like to feel like I'm coming out with something to try to make room for other young women to make their art.

Liz Phair

WomenArtMeImpactFeelYoung

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