Leading Quotes - page 21

It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world. (Melinda Gates)
Eventually, the state's funding covered only the stages leading to presenting a film project to potential funding bodies. It was enough to produce a script, indicate casting and put together a budget to present it all, but nothing beyond that. View quote
Andrzej Wajda
If you would rather pick a fight than solve a problem, do not consider leading the church. View quote
J. Oswald Sanders
We can lead others only as far along the road as we ourselves have traveled. merely pointing the way is not enough. If we are not walking, then no one can be following, and ware not leading anyone. View quote
J. Oswald Sanders
Come," he said, taking her by the hand and leading her to a distant sopha, "come and sit by me, and let us talk of bats. View quote
Patrick O'Brian
Politics is a matter of leading other people. Admittedly not where they want to go, but where they ought to go. View quote
Peter Prange
The effects of unresolved trauma can be devastating. It can affect our habits and outlook on life, leading to addictions and poor decision-making. It can take a toll on our family life and interpersonal relationships. It can trigger real physical pain, symptoms, and disease. And it can lead to a range of self-destructive behaviors. View quote
Peter A. Levine
I don't even think of myself as particularly good looking, and not at all a typical kind of Hollywood leading man sort of actor. View quote
Ryan Gosling
As with all journeys, the Way has an end, though it should not be imagined as a straight road leading to a fixed destination but rather as a majestic mountain whose peak conceals the presence of God. There are, of course, many paths to the summit-some better than others. But because every path eventually leads to the same destination, which path one takes is irrelevant. View quote
Reza Aslan
I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons. View quote
Sam Shepard
I still haven't played a leading role in cinema or in TV, and that's something that I long for. (Sofia Vergara)
The world doesn't need more people playing small. It's time to stop hiding out and start stepping out. It's time to stop needing and start leading. It's time to start sharing your gifts instead of hoarding them or pretending they don't exist. It's time you started playing the game of life in a "big” way. View quote
T. Harv Eker
So I think it is common knowledge that Hitchcock had fantasies or whatever you want to call them about his leading ladies. View quote
Tippi Hedren
I am generally way out of touch with trends, except now and then I am surprised to find myself leading one, like sympathetic vampires. View quote
Fred Saberhagen
Our way of managing and leading, rewarding and judging people is totally out of tune with the fact that we are all individuals. View quote
Howard Gardner
Whether it's being a leading man, making TV shows, being with my family, I've learned a lot. View quote
Ashton Kutcher
I have no aspiration whatsoever to be the next great leading man. View quote
DeForest Kelley
Teaching is a calling too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy - angels leading their flocks out of the darkness. View quote
Jeannette Walls
My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a neurotic kook and sent him to Hollywood. I should have made him a perfectly normal, sane, ordinary person, and sent him to Hollywood. The audience identifies with the lead character. View quote
Gene Wilder
A Gurkha subaltern whom I met later told me that commanding a platoon of them was like leading a group of perfectly-disciplined ten-year-olds, and I believed him. View quote
George MacDonald Fraser
A mountain of evidence shows that our bodies are pushing, shaping, even leading our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. That the body affects the mind is, it's fair to say, incontestable. And it's doing so in ways that either facilitate or impede our ability to bring our authentic best selves to our biggest challenges. (Amy Cuddy)
When you live in a leading lady's body, which I do, you have to constantly prove that you are funny. View quote
Elizabeth Banks
Guided by film...we approach, if at all, ideas no longer on highways leading through the void but on paths that wind through the thicket of things. View quote
Siegfried Kracauer
I just want to be a part of great stories, whether I'm part of an amazing ensemble cast or I'm leading it or the antagonist or whatever. View quote
Zoe Saldana
The quote-unquote 'description' of a leading man was once your tall, handsome man with the build of whatever, almost a trophy to some degree. I think now it's about making a leading man what you want a leading man to be. In this day, you can't deny talent. You look at Jonah Hill, you look at Zach Galifianakis, you look at myself. View quote
Kevin Hart