Roles Quotes · Page 267

Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for…

— John Waters

The competition between human beings destroys with cold and diabolic brutality... Under the pressure of this competitive fury we have not only…

— Konrad Lorenz

There is a sense of call to take leadership roles. You're serving people and submitting to God as best you can.

— Richard Foster

I hope to have some more cracks at some wonderful roles before I go to the Great Beyond.

— Sally Kellerman

I don't live with my role, I'm a really normal person.

— Marion Cotillard

I don’t sit around complaining about the lack of good roles. I will play Raj 85 times and still make him different.

— Shahrukh Khan

The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.

— J. M. Coetzee

My mom is my heart. But my [step]dad was my role model, the hardest working man I ever knew.

— Brian Urlacher

Dictatorship played a decisive role in the North's successful effort to maintain the Union by force of arms...one man was the government…

— Clinton Rossiter

Legal systems, at both the national and international level, are therefore required to recognize, guarantee and protect religious freedom, which is a…

— Pope Francis

I was excited to play Lil' Kim and I wanted to do the role justice. I worked really hard on that role,…

— Naturi Naughton

The Orient that appears in Orientalism, then, is a system of representations framed by a whole set of forces that brought the…

— Edward Said

War, which perpetuates itself under the form of preparation for war, has once and for all given the State an important role…

— Simone Weil

But when we place God on our side of things, that we are now ridding the world of evil - that's very…

— Jim Wallis

I see myself as mom first. I'm so lucky to have that role in life. The world can like me, hate me…

— Angelina Jolie

I'm happy people look at me as a role model.

— Lara Stone

Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I…

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

There just aren't that many Jesus roles around.

— Jeffrey Hunter

The gun-control crusade today is like the Prohibition crusade 100 years ago. It is a shared zealotry that binds the self-righteous know-it-alls…

— Thomas Sowell

Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.

— Margaret Cho

The First Lady role is really difficult. It has no job description... You have to create it for yourself.

— Hillary Clinton

It's only when journalists understand the role they play in this propaganda, it's only when they realize they can't be both independent,…

— John Pilger

My mom is very confident and she was always a role model of mine.

— Ashley Tisdale

had two smaller scripts that I had written with full black casts. And people loved the scripts, but nobody would fund them.…

— Joe Robert Cole

After college, I funded my short films with acting roles in film and TV. I learned my craft through the great opportunities…

— Justin Chadwick