Ellen Burstyn Quotes

All of my life I have asked the question, 'Who would I be if I had grown up in a loving home?' And I have no way to answer it. I don't know if I would be placid and satisfied with whatever is around me - a happy, jolly, sedentary person.

Ellen Burstyn

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LifeHomeHappyMeMy LifeLoving

My dad for a long time was an accounting professor at Rice University. And then he went out on his own, and he got hired by a client. He ended up being CEO of a hospital management company before he retired, called Lifemark.

John Mackey

TimeManagementAccountingLongOut

There's a lot of judges on TV in America. Apart from Judge Judy, the vast majority of them are terrible.

Robert Rinder

JudgeAmericaJudgesTerribleTV

I remember kind of doing early acting and thinking, 'God, they don't paint behind the sets.' It's a bit of a shame, really - 'Oh, what's on the other side of this wall? Oh, you can see the plywood.' I was really disappointed. I just thought that these things were real, from watching things as a kid.

Andy Serkis

GodThinkingThoughtDoingRemember

What the media misses is the amount of anger that's out there. Trump didn't create that.

Steve Bannon

AngerMediaCreateOutTrumpMisses

You should not remain in your comfort zone; if you want to make it big, you must challenge yourself, get out of your comfort zone, and succeed in doing well outside of your comfort areas.

Rohit Sharma

ChallengeYourselfSucceedDoingYou

That's kind of fuse for the show - those first 10-15 seconds you're onstage. The curtain drops and you see the crowd for the first time and they see you for the first time. The response and the energy that's going on right there - to me, that sets the tone for the rest of the night.

Jason Aldean

TimeMeNightEnergyRestYou

In songwriting, I needed language. And I always believed in singing about what I do.

Jason Molina

SingingLanguageSongwritingAlways

I don't think you can erase history.

Johnny Van Zant

HistoryThinkYouErase

I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head.

Chris Van Allsburg

WriteInsideHeadLeftStillAround

We're in a new world. We're in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry that we didn't act.

Condoleezza Rice

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I'm not one for neon colors.

Ashley Wagner

Colors

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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