Very Quotes

I don't want to discredit people's individuality, but I think people are pretty much the same. People are very similar.

What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: "Checkout Time is 18 years."

A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.

The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break.

I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.

I would consider him definitely one of my very best friends and I know he feels the same about me. We have a lot of love and respect.

Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.

All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father.

Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

It's very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourself forward creatively and not sort of becoming a caricature of yourself.

I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga, they said I was very theatrical and they said, 'You're Gaga'.

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

I've been working as an actress since I was very young, and I know a lot of people who are actors who don't have to deal with having a persona... You know, if you look up the word persona, it isn't even real. The whole meaning of the word is that it's made up, and it's like I didn't even get to make up my own. It can be annoying.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

I sometimes get very protective of the people I play.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

You know, I'm very proud of the large number of Hispanic endorsements that I've received.

I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.