Just Being You Quotes (page 34)

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• you me
• want me
• wanting

You want me to be all doom and gloom, or just shut up? Stephenie Meyer

• learning
• best
• kindness

You know what I was thinking? [Ruthie] got so excited when she was spouting this ahistorical countertextual nonsense, and I caught myself thinking, 'What an idiot her teacher must be,' and thinking about her teacher made me realize - the kind of excitement she was showing as she mindlessly spouted back the nonsense she learned in college, that's just like the excitement some of my own students show. And it occurred to me that what we professors think of as a 'brilliant student' is nothing but... Orson Scott Card

• alone
• leaving
• baby

You can be mad in the morning. I'll take back what I said. Just don't leave me alone here. It's cold, baby. Come back to bed John Mayer

• country
• rock
• green

Being a copper I like to see the law win. I'd like to see the flashy well-dressed mugs like Eddie Mars spoiling their manicures in the rock quarry at Folsom, alongside of the poor little slum-bred guys that got knocked over on their first caper amd never had a break since. That's what I'd like. You and me both lived too long to think I'm likely to see it happen. Not in this town, not in any town half this size, in any part of this wide, green and beautiful U.S.A. We just don't run our country... Raymond Chandler

• die
• you me
• favours

Just don't die for me, you won't be doing me any favour ! Suzanne Collins

• crying
• cool
• people

Being on Oprah? You realize that there are a couple of types of audience members. There are like the cult people in the audience who are just crying before she gets on. And then there are the people who are playing it cool. I definitely was somewhere in the middle. Genevieve Gorder

• mother to be
• hard work
• work

Being a mother is quite tiring. There's not much time to do anything. You just rush around and it's hard work. Kirsty Gallacher

• life
• positive
• about

You have to be positive, and I'm not just talking about athletics, this also applies to life. Sheryl Swoopes

• work
• money
• humanity

Just recently I worked with Van Morrison and I came to realize that money can't make a decent human being out of you. Jim Sullivan

• health
• competition
• parted

You can't have public health without a public health system. We just don't want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system. Paul Farmer

• feeling
• waiting
• create

You have to create your own stuff. It's really exciting to create something, sell it, and feel like I'm not just a pawn waiting to be cast. Anna Faris

• movie
• crash
• taking

You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie. Robert Duvall

• bad
• kids
• lawyer

You may not win the Super Bowl. Your kids may not go on to be doctors and lawyers and everything may not go perfectly. That doesn't mean it was a bad plan or the wrong thing. It's just like a football season. Everything's not going to go perfect. Tony Dungy

• good
• time
• style

You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'm glad. It's going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I'm right in style. Faye Dunaway

• hope
• movie
• never

You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)! Cameron Diaz