Al Franken Quotes

My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home. We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we'd discuss it with our parents.

Al Franken

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HomeParentsDinnerNightPolitical

I feel like the world gets so consumed and gobbled up by action, and the pace of life is so frantic, and people feel like, in order to move somebody, you have to do something shocking or violent or something insane and fast.

Jim James

LifePeopleWorldActionFeelYou

The business of being a popular entertainer in England is just too hard.

Andrew Eldritch

BusinessHardBeingJustEngland

I get impatient with people working on a film that have their head in their hands like it's the most complicated thing in the world.

Angelina Jolie

PeopleWorldHandsComplicatedHead

In writing on the page, you can be a bit elliptical, but on TV, you can't dance around stuff. You either show it, or you don't.

Michael Connelly

DanceWritingYouPageShowStuff

It's rare in Hollywood to get the chance to work on something that you actually care about. The tragedy of the place is all these talented people trying to get excited about stuff they themselves would only view at gunpoint.

Stephen Gaghan

WorkPeopleChanceCareViewYou

I know that I come from mid-20th century America, urban, specifically downtown New York, specifically an Italian-American area, Roman Catholic - that's who I am. And a part of what I know is there's a decency to people who tried to make a living in the kind of world that was around us and also the Skid Row area of the Bowery; it impressed me.

Martin Scorsese

I AmNew YorkPeopleMeWorldKnow

I think what I'm good at is getting to know people and trying to build a relationship over a few weeks and trying to get to the truth.

Louis Theroux

GoodRelationshipTruthPeopleThink

I've had to grow up with everyone watching me, which has been hard.

Joss Stone

MeGrowGrow UpWatchingHardUp

I think it's really important that we have a level playing field for global trade.

Dennis Muilenburg

ThinkImportantPlayingLevelTrade

To transcend limitations and form positive new patterns of life based on who you know you can be rather than who you were yesterday, you must give up the modes of thinking, feeling and behaving that only keep you chained to your past.

Debbie Ford

LifePositivePastThinkingYouNew

The Rolling Stones... The Rolling Stones have a reflection to my music; I wouldn't deny it. I think that's honest.

Chuck Berry

MusicReflectionThinkHonestStones

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Winston Churchill

ChangePerfectImproveOften

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