We must retool our nation to prepare for the challenge we already face to maintain our position in the global economy. And this much is certain: America will not have national security without economic security.
Senator John Kerry
I start to feel like I can’t maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is. I don’t know. Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypoc...
Elizabeth Wurtzel
The only thing I say a prayer for is for health and safety for my family. Some people even include happiness and a hope for something else. Not me. I think everything else is on your own. That`s the way I look at it. If you can just maintain health and sa...
Bryan Cranston
I live a very simple life. I don`t have to make those giant movies. I don`t have a yacht or a private plane. As long as I can maintain this life, which is pretty low-maintenance and simple, then all of a sudden you don`t have to worry about all that stuff...
Charlize Theron
(1998 quote on auditioning) It`s hard to maintain a sense of dignity in an audition. I have done so many auditions where I`ve put it out there and have been met with that kind of blank stare - "Great! Thanks! OK! Great work! Thanks for coming in!" At the ...
Ben Stiller
[when asked in 2003 interview whether he was born in 1947 or 1951] "1951. I have it on my passport and driving licence. [I said 1947 in my autobiography] because I just wanted to maintain a constant lie. I was born in 1951 but see what a great thing it is...
Meat Loaf
Sexuality ... is something that develops and becomes stronger and stronger the older you get... If you can continue to say yes to life and to maintain a certain generosity of spirit, you become more and more of who you are.
Susan Sarandon
I was a teenager when the battle of Iwo Jima took place. I remember hearing about the bond drive and the need to maintain the war effort. Back then, people had just come through 10 years of a Depression, and they were used to working for everything. I sti...
Clint Eastwood
Asperger`s syndrome helped make the movies. The symptoms of this developmental disorder include early precocity, a great ability to maintain masses of information, a lack of ability to mix with groups in age-appropriate aways, ignorance of or indifference...
David Mamet
There`s a real danger in trying to stay king of the mountain. You stop taking risks, you stop being as creative, because you`re trying to maintain a position. Apart from anything else that really takes the fun out of it.
Sissy Spacek
...if you make a film full of risk, studios don`t run towards you to give you $50,000,000 in order to reinvent the post-modern musical, I can tell you. If you do manage to cajole them into doing it and you want to maintain the flag of creative freedom, yo...
Baz Luhrmann
I do not consider myself famous... I don`t get recognized when I go out anywhere. I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away. If I am able to continue to work and maintain a certain degree of privacy, I would be very happy.
Aaron Stanford
I was especially fascinated by memory studies. There was one that requested people`s good and bad memories, and then checked them for content. But non- pathological people, people who maintain a happy, healthy brain, couldn`t provide negative memories. Th...
Natalie Portman
Work really was a catalyst by which I was able to maintain a sense of balance, and coming back...I don`t know that you come back. You go on, you endure. [on returning to work after the death of his son Christopher]
Bill Bixby
I`m constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
Al Pacino
I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I`m drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity.
Rachel McAdams
I don`t want to be a babe. I don`t want vanity to ever get in the way, because I think to maintain that, you have to be aware of yourself all the time, and that gets in the way of acting. My job`s not to be the beautiful person. My job is to be the best a...
Zooey Deschanel
Even funnier than a man who has been made ridiculous is the man who, having had something funny happen to him, refuses to admit that anything out of the way has happened, and attempts to maintain his dignity. Perhaps the best example is the intoxicated ma...
Charlie Chaplin
I think everyone has their own set of problems, and sometimes I feel I`m in the middle of the biggest challenge of my life just trying to maintain normalcy in a kind of crazy lifestyle.
Reese Witherspoon
As far as being in the spotlight and under public scrutiny, a lot of that`s about how much you put yourself out there. It`s not like we go to every premiere and every celebrity function and every charity auction. We really just try to maintain our privacy...
Reese Witherspoon
Such is an actor`s life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes.
Michael Caine
So, yes, we won for ourselves a criteria, a mantra, which is that we only make what we want to make in the way we want to make it. I believe we make universal stories for the world, but it has an Australian voice, and to maintain that voice you must be co...
Baz Luhrmann
By the time I was a teenager, I had developed skills as a writer, and my father encouraged me to think about a career in journalism. I began keeping a diary, which I maintain to this day. I used to fill whole notebooks with my writings.
Nicole Kidman
You can argue that it`s in everybody`s interest to maintain a positive spin, but the point is the fundamentals in Indonesia and across the region are healthier than the case in 1997-98, particularly with most of the countries running current account surpl...
David Cohen
With the blessing and grace of Almighty God and with the assistance of the faithful Saudi people, we shall continue the welfare march of construction and development and maintain the gains which are reflected by comprehensive achievements in various field...
Anil Sahin
While it is important to maintain a balanced approach to solving our nation`s energy problems, we must commit ourselves to recognize some areas as `off limits,` and the Artic National Wildlife Reserve is a national symbol of that commitment.
Allen Okamoto