#sam

You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the same thing with a woman. ↗

— Neil Diamond

#great #happens #just #lap #plan

I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it's probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I wasn't offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the same time. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

#after #been #beginning #believed #blonde

During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#banging #doing #drum #during #election

The future is made of the same stuff as the present. ↗

— Simone Weil

#made #present #same #stuff

The Germans and I no longer speak the same language. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#i #language #longer #same #speak

You just don't see the same type of all-purpose entertainers nowadays. ↗

— Taye Diggs

#just #nowadays #same #see #type

People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#alone #best #looking #love #loves

Capping the size of American banks won't eliminate the needs of big businesses; it will force them to turn to foreign banks that won't face the same restrictions. ↗

— Jamie Dimon

#banks #big #businesses #eliminate #face

I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#being #dad #go #goes #great

If we're going to change the laws, let's change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens. ↗

— John Dingell

#amendment rights #catch #change #citizens #criminals