Rare Quotes

And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really, really looked out for me and really encouraged all that. And in rural Louisiana, that was a rare thing back then.

I have no idea how to become successful in children's tv programming today other than to say that whereever you find that rare animal being pursued, insert yourself into its environment; get in the door in any position and work from within.

If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance.

It's very rare that I get stopped or get asked for an autograph or anything - none of which I mind - but people don't really care that much.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare.

I'm super serious about that stuff. I mean, it's rare that I sit down at a drum set when I'm not touring, because we tour so much.

Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.

No not at all... it is rare for shows to make it as long as Once and Again... It was a pretty good run.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

It's very rare that things are true about yourself that are on the Internet. It's just sad sometimes. So you definitely try and stay away from it as much as possible.

The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.

I took the role because it's rare to read a script that makes me laugh and cry, and it spoke to my own religious feelings, as well as giving me a chance to draw on my experience as a parent. Accepting it was a no-brainer.

I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures.

In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.

It was an argument of rare power and eloquence.

In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.

In rare cases, I've had music before I shot the movie. I think that for 'Good Will Hunting' I had an Elliot Smith record or a couple of them and I just somehow felt like the sound had something to it that reminded me of the story. So in that case there was music beforehand.

The band has always stayed close to its fans and not sold out. That's a very rare thing. I can see how rare that is having been outside of the band for eight years. Maiden has integrity. I think people appreciate that.

It's rare to find women who have that balance between work and life, who are really psyched for another woman's success.

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

With a lot of hair and make-up then I'm possibly, remotely attractive. But it's rare, I don't think I'm ugly but I'm nothing particularly special. I'm not a yoga and health girl. I don't exercise that much and I eat crap and smoke and bite my nails.

I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.

It's very rare that publications double their frequency.

We've built the largest empire in the history of the world. It's been done over the last 50 years since World War II with very little military might, actually. It's only in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes in as a last resort.