Jack Zipes Quotes

Almost every single commercial on television for shampoo, sports shoes, drinks, food, clothes, perfume, cars, etc., is a short fairy tale, for they are given magical qualities.

Jack Zipes

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SportsShoesFoodShortFairy Tale

Walking into a room filled with people you don't know but who know you brings out your worst vulnerabilities.

Jessica Savitch

PeopleWalkingYouKnowWorstOut

The planet is always half light and half dark, and so are we.

Jennifer Lynch

LightDarkAlwaysPlanetHalf

For me, the most enjoyable type of singing is opera. It allows you to move, to wear a costume... to do something with your body. When singing in concert, you have to stand up in front of the audience, next to the conductor, which is less natural.

Andrea Bocelli

MeSingingStand UpStandYouBody

Marriage is marriage. Everybody has problems.

Mel Gibson

MarriageProblemsEverybody

We can start with housing, the sturdiest of footholds for economic mobility. A national affordable housing program would be an anti-poverty effort, human capital investment, community improvement plan, and public health initiative all rolled into one.

Matthew Desmond

CommunityHealthImprovementEffort

If you don't know how to hold a board, you're going to look phony. That's was the biggest pressure for me was to have that respect and to look up to that.

John Robinson

RespectMePressureYouLookKnow

If there are opportunities, seize them and be prepared for them, and be the best, if that's what it takes. If you have to be extraordinary, then be extraordinary.

Stacey Dash

BestOpportunitiesYouBe Prepared

America was and is the immigrant's dream.

Don DeLillo

AmericaDreamImmigrant

I had a series of jobs in the small fishing village in West Wales where my family lived when I was a teenager. I worked as a fisherman in the day, and then the skipper and his wife ran a small restaurant - she'd cook the fish he caught.

Johnny Flynn

FamilyDayWifeFishingSmallFish

Although I love this kind of comedy, sometimes I feel trapped by always having to be the most outrageous guy in the room. In particular, I'm working on trying not to be that guy in my private life.

Chris Farley

LifeLoveFeelComedyTryingKind

I really believe in the old expression that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. It's through adversity that you find the strength you never knew you had.

Christie Brinkley

StrengthAdversityBelieveStronger

My interests were in fantasy more than comics growing up.

Brandon Routh

Growing UpGrowingFantasyMoreUp

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