Famous Quotes & Sayings

Willem Dafoe

Unless it's a down-and-dirty little film ... you have to strike that balance between having it rooted and having the people not fall out of it,

Father's ideals became part of me and still are today. His reserve, deeply rooted liberal views, his provocative humour, his passion for work and love of risk are also mine.

Khloe Kardashian

Tracey Cunningham does my color, and little by little, my ombre turned into more of a rooted blond, and then it got lighter and lighter. I love how I stand out more as a blond - it makes me feel bright and healthy.

Coolidge's preference for experience over ideas was a deeply rooted trait.

Denis Leary

All knowledge is ultimately rooted in metaphorical (or analogical) modes of perception and thought.

If it gets itself rooted there, it will be even more difficult to get it out than Southeast Asia.

If it were to become rooted in the African countryside, the consequences for a continent already devastated by hunger and poverty could be truly catastrophic.

John Sununu

He understands the law and the Constitution extremely well, and I think one of the abilities he showed was to clearly describe how he ruled, why he ruled, and what factors were critical to particular cases. That's an indication that his service on the court and his view of the Constitution is rooted in principle.

Juliet Rylance

I come from a family rooted in the arts, so I think I naturally gravitated towards performing from an early age.

Raymond Odierno

We are fighting a lethal insurgency that is rooted in several subgroups that may not necessarily be linked together but they are seeking in some cases the same goals.

Aidan Gillen

'Heroes', 'Desperate Housewives', 'The Sopranos' - they're all very stylised. 'The Wire' is much more rooted in realism and honesty. In American television, I can't think of anything I'd rather have been in because it has got something to say and that is the kind of thing I want to do.

John Catsimatidis

I am a real New Yorker... I didn't go to Harvard, I didn't go to Yale... I rooted for the Yankees; I didn't root for the Boston Red Sox.

John Thorn

But the citizens of Cincinnati loved their Reds because they won, no matter what their addresses had been the year before. They rooted for the Old-English 'C' on the players' shirts.

Jason Biggs

But because it was able to balance that kind of humor with a sweet story and characters you really rooted for and also got across the girls' point of view, I've heard nothing but great things from younger and older females as well.

Hollingsworth supposedly sees the building as unsafe. The Vestry is also aware that Cleveland Clinic wants the property for their own expansion. The sale would benefit the diocese. This priest urged the Vestry to go public. They seem reluctant to do so. The parish is current on all assessments. While very small, the parish has a rooted history in the diocese and serves the poorest of the community in outreach. The parish was combined from two parishes to one community several years ago. Clark Grew treated the parish with great love and care. Hollingsworth is very unpredictable and seems to be offering solutions to a problem the vestry does not see as existing. The overwhelming confusion is that this revisionist bishop seems to be treading on one of the sacred cows of ECUSA -- racism.

Mike Quigley

My outspoken positions haven't always been popular in the halls of Congress, but they have been rooted in what I believed was right and necessary.

Dan Harmon

My passion for 'Star Trek' is actually rooted in my love of television and the art of franchise and a premise designed to stick people together that have to figure out what to do.

Italy's problems appear so deeply rooted that the next government, whatever its complexion, is unlikely to do little more than make a start at solving them.

Amity Gaige

I was born on an even keel. Family lore says I never cried, even at birth. I felt at ease on earth, in the right place. And like many children, I took comfort in life's regularity: Every few days it rained, the school bus came and went, and my parents were rooted in their union.

I think Patrick is a fine young man, rooted in principles of limited government and standing up for the taxpayer.

Craig Fairbrass

I watched 'Iron Man 3' the other night, and my chin was on the floor. 'Vikingdom' is a different type of movie, because it's rooted in reality. The characters are more real; they're not these superhuman people who can fly and do things.

Shelley Conn

I think 'Mistresses' is so successful because it's a mixture of intriguing storylines with lots of twists and it is rooted very strongly in reality and it's really glossy.

I think I was too much in my head and not rooted enough in my body, which is a problem I think a lot of actors have.

Isabelle Huppert

I'm standing all the way through the piece, very stiff like a tree, very much rooted in the earth, ... It's like she was wishing to die standing, to die alive. It's a strange feeling.

Martin Jacques

Koizumi was not rooted in Japan's rightwing nationalist tradition: he was a pragmatist and a populist. Abe, in contrast, is a rightwing nationalist. Unlike Koizumi, for example, he has questioned the validity of the postwar Tokyo trials of Japan's wartime leaders, which found many of them guilty of war crimes.

James Norton

We live in secular world now, but most of our art and culture is rooted in religion.

Alan Smith

Our prevalent philosophy is stressing the importance of teamwork, including a commitment to community service. Then building upon our tradition and international legacy has helped us become firmly rooted in Southwest Florida.

From Azerbaijan to Zimbabwe, we see the same patterns of under-representation and stereotyped portrayal of women in the news. The reason for these patterns is complicated. From the story angle and the choice of interview questions to the use of language and the choice of images; all these have a bearing on the messages that emerge in the news. These patterns are deeply rooted not only in professional practice, but in wider social assumptions about female and male attributes, roles and competencies.

Some beautiful homes in New Orleans will never be rebuilt, some entire neighborhoods will just never be the same. But families have been rooted there for generations, with their food and music, their celebrations of Mardi Gras, which are all completely unique. It's part of the American psyche. It's impossible to imagine America without New Orleans.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

Shooting at Coco Chanel's apartment was an unexpectedly absorbing experience. The essence of Chanel is firmly rooted there in all of her possessions, and I truly believe that her spirit and soul still inhabit the second floor.

Lorde

I'd refer to myself as a feminist. I don't think my music is overtly rooted in feminism. I'm a teenager, and 95 percent of my friends are boys, and that's just the way I've always been.

Howard Dean

There are some parallels to Watergate. This is a third-rate, silly effort that definitely turns out to be rooted in the White House.

Mr. Pence has a belief the problem is solely rooted in spending issues. We think it's a mixture of spending and tax issues.