Raquel Welch quote: "I felt like, you know, my presence in the world of cinema had a different meaning than Meryl Streep... There was an impact that was made, but it wasn't the usual."

I was lucky that one of my first movies, 'One Million Years B.C.' was made in Europe by a Br...
RAQUEL WELCH

I am 5 ft 6 in, and at my peak, my vital statistics were 37-22-35. I didn't even think about my ...
RAQUEL WELCH

I found out a long time ago that if I indulged by stuffing my face with great food, lying about read...
RAQUEL WELCH

Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.
RAQUEL WELCH

The mind can also be an erogenous zone.
RAQUEL WELCH

We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is...
RAQUEL WELCH

I take a multivitamin, I take extra C, I take chondroitin and glucosamine for my joints, I take calc...
RAQUEL WELCH

I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn't b...
RAQUEL WELCH

Myra Breckenridge is the antithesis of sex symbol. She's revolutionary; she's a warrior.
RAQUEL WELCH

There's a duality in every man and every woman.
RAQUEL WELCH

I couldn't stand that my husband was being unfaithful. I am Raquel Welch - understand?
RAQUEL WELCH

I'm the antidote to Lindsay Lohan. I know she misbehaves terribly, but sometimes it just seems l...
RAQUEL WELCH

She's a seller, ... And it's amazing to me because at this point, a lot of us don't remember her any...
RAQUEL WELCH

I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So, I didn't bake ...
RAQUEL WELCH

Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.
RAQUEL WELCH

I'd taken the bull by the horns by liberating myself and creating a career. It took guts - it wa...
RAQUEL WELCH

I'm a hard worker, very driven, and have never expected anything to come easily. My yoga, a grea...
RAQUEL WELCH

Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you b...
RAQUEL WELCH

The mind can also be an erogenous zone
RAQUEL WELCH

I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our fifty-two states
RAQUEL WELCH

You can't fake listening. It shows.
RAQUEL WELCH

We try to do too many things that used to be in the men's domain, and we try to do them like men...
RAQUEL WELCH

Turning 60 was not a happy time. I didn't think 'I'm falling apart,' but I did re-ex...
RAQUEL WELCH

I think it'd be wonderful if we could train young girls to be active in lots of ways and that th...
RAQUEL WELCH

It's funny, but when you're not paying attention and not looking for love is when it happens,
RAQUEL WELCH

After the '60s happened -- as great as it was to throw the whole culture on its ear and shake things...
RAQUEL WELCH

My body is the shape I live in and it shapes the way I live.
RAQUEL WELCH

I'm going into a whole new direction, which I've been wanting to do for so long. I want to be more t...
RAQUEL WELCH

I remember feeling that pieces of me were scattered around the world; I belonged to her, Mother Eart...
RAQUEL CEPEDA

I have never bought into the idea that blood is thicker than water. Love and respect are meant to be...
RAQUEL CEPEDA

Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a...
RAQUEL CEPEDA

Hip-hop...has been the proverbial key that’s opened the door for me to roam this breathtaking plan...
RAQUEL CEPEDA

The best part appearing in 'Jersey Girl' was meeting my idol Jennifer Lopez.
RAQUEL CASTRO

While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I ca...
RAQUEL CEPEDA

The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into o...
RAQUEL CEPEDA

Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene ...
RAQUEL CEPEDA

I don't think I'm an obsessive dieter, but I do maintain good eating habits that are as much as part...
RAQUEL DARRIAN

If it weren’t for her setting me free, I may still be a caged bird today, holding my own daughter ...
RAQUEL CEPEDA

This thing I am feeling, I’m almost certain, is the closest I’ll ever come to standing somewhere...
RAQUEL CEPEDA

Globalization by the way of McDonald’s and KFC has captured the hearts, the minds, and from what I...
RAQUEL CEPEDA

Don't tell me who I am, I'll show you who I am.
RAQUEL TORRES

The gaping hole in her heart is amplified when she catches a glimpse of the strands of silver hair f...
RAQUEL CEPEDA

A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.
RAQUEL CEPEDA

When we illuminate the road back to our ancestors, they have a way of reaching out, of manifesting t...
RAQUEL CEPEDA

The tension between people is palpable, and the ideal of what it means to be and look American becom...
RAQUEL CEPEDA

Listen kid, it’s just you and me now, so let’s help each other out. Always be honest with me, an...
RAQUEL CEPEDA

For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an op...
RAQUEL CEPEDA

More than anything, this place feels familiar. I bury my hands in the hot sand and think about the e...
RAQUEL CEPEDA

The Dominican Republic is my holy land, my Mecca.
RAQUEL CEPEDA

If Aphrodite chills at home in Cyprus for most of the year, then Fez must be the goddess’s playgro...
RAQUEL CEPEDA

The hospital room was as cold as dead skin, the hallway crowded with lost souls and reeking of illne...
RAQUEL CEPEDA

She was tired of being sore every morning when she woke up.
RAQUEL GISCAFRE

Every tenth of a point is important. It's going to take good form, having perfect execution, amplitu...
RAQUEL TURNBOW

I can dine at the White House, but I can still hang at the 'hood.
WENDY RAQUEL ROBINSON

Until you can be happy, you can't facilitate happiness for anybody else.
WENDY RAQUEL ROBINSON

It is OK to laugh at others ONLY if you can laugh at yourself, your faults, your imperfections first...
DIANA RAQUEL SAINZ

Control your own destiny or someone else will.
JACK WELCH

If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensatio...
JACK WELCH

One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when yo...
JACK WELCH

Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thous...
JACK WELCH

Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today'...
JACK WELCH

Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
JACK WELCH

Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five yea...
JACK WELCH

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
JACK WELCH

There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and ...
JACK WELCH

You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while y...
JACK WELCH

The team with the best players wins.
JACK WELCH

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confus...
JACK WELCH

A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around ...
JACK WELCH

Change before you have to.
JACK WELCH

Be candid with everyone.
JACK WELCH

The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
JACK WELCH

Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.
JACK WELCH

I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first m...
FLORENCE WELCH

I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and sud...
FLORENCE WELCH

I think I just get excited by music, and, like, singing is a very physical thing. It releases endorp...
FLORENCE WELCH

I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects lik...
FLORENCE WELCH

I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.
FLORENCE WELCH

The aesthetic came along the way, I think - just through experimenting, and going on tour, and tryin...
FLORENCE WELCH

I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
FLORENCE WELCH

I dyed my hair red when I was ten and when I was 11 - in my goth period - I dyed it black and I was ...
FLORENCE WELCH

The first album, for better or for worse, was done over from the ages of 17-22, with a couple of dif...
FLORENCE WELCH

It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being...
FLORENCE WELCH

You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
FLORENCE WELCH

I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.
FLORENCE WELCH

I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part o...
FLORENCE WELCH

I like the idea of taking off like a bird.
FLORENCE WELCH

The sense of jubilee for music and what we're making is always genuine.
FLORENCE WELCH

I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that ...
FLORENCE WELCH

I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means tha...
FLORENCE WELCH

Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say somethi...
FLORENCE WELCH

When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energie...
FLORENCE WELCH

I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.
FLORENCE WELCH

The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.
ROBERT WELCH

I know some actors feel classes are not cool or they create negative public relations, but I continu...
MICHAEL WELCH

The world of the 90s and beyond will belong to managers or those who make the numbers dance, as we u...
JOHN WELCH

Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered ...
JOHN WELCH

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relen...
JOHN WELCH

I wish I could tell you how lonely I am. How cold and harsh it is here. Everywhere there is conflict...
SANDY WELCH

The people who get into trouble in our company are those who carry around the anchor of the past.
JOHN WELCH

An overburdened, over-stretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the ...
JACK WELCH

To be conservative requires no brains whatsoever. Cabbages, cows and conifers are conservatives, and...
COLIN WELCH

If you want to become the best runner you can be, start now. Don't spend the rest of your life wonde...
PRISCILLA WELCH

The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do ...
JACK WELCH

Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today's w...
JACK WELCH

Last year, Congress passed a law that directs the Federal Reserve to set limits on debit card swipe ...
PETER WELCH

In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you...
JACK WELCH

But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I...
FLORENCE WELCH

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ulti...
JACK WELCH

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they wi...
JACK WELCH

The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that wel...
JACK WELCH

Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.
JACK WELCH

Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, ...
JACK WELCH

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is...
JACK WELCH

America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whet...
PETER WELCH

CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They co...
JACK WELCH

If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. Th...
PETER WELCH

Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will
JACK WELCH

Our 60-plus came together and worked well as a group to brainstorm ideas, identify issues and shortf...
BARNEY WELCH

The facilitators captured the ideas, the brainstorming, the feedback and the state has provided a te...
BARNEY WELCH

This is all in support of a national support plan.
BARNEY WELCH

We certainly have critical resources in this region that impact not only the state, but the nation. ...
BARNEY WELCH

I think it's terrible. I'm really sad about it.
BARBARA WELCH

It's a fact of life. I, for one, don't think the people at 200 Elizabeth St. are just throwing $100 ...
BARBARA WELCH

I do not think they just hire people to be hiring them. I do think that when they hire up there, it'...
BARBARA WELCH

I'm not necessarily for them, but I'm not against them either.
BARBARA WELCH

It broke my heart when they put the handcuffs on her and took her away. I think she needs to spend t...
BARBARA WELCH

Sometimes I wish for falling
Wish for the release
Wish for falling through the air
To...
FLORENCE WELCH

To receive this award from an organization I admire so much makes me totally happy and grateful.
JAMES WELCH

At the beginning of my career I was going through a really weird phase of dressing in boys clothes. ...
FLORENCE WELCH

The Citizen's Petition reflects Vermont's spirit of pragmatism and across-the-board cooperat...
PETER WELCH

You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let ...
JACK WELCH

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relen...
JACK WELCH

I'd gone from being this art student messing about with music to this girl with a record deal, m...
FLORENCE WELCH

I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas ...
FLORENCE WELCH

I represent a rural state and live in a small town. Small merchants make up the majority of Vermont&...
PETER WELCH

You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can ...
JACK WELCH

The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
JACK WELCH

My siblings and I were friends with the boys who would become our stepbrothers - we grew up on the s...
FLORENCE WELCH

I've had a big heart my whole life; all the Korn fans know that. A lot of people told me that I ...
BRIAN WELCH

Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, ...
JACK WELCH

My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. An...
FLORENCE WELCH

'Spectrum' is in part a disco song. But we play it hard, and it's a real euphoric, waili...
FLORENCE WELCH

The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual pro...
JACK WELCH

I love that there's this tradition of being able to discuss the heaviest topics and the gnarlies...
GILLIAN WELCH

I loved music, but I found myself at the point where I wanted to die. I didn't care about life.
BRIAN WELCH

I had to put my kid before my career and all the money I was making. I decided to do the right thing...
BRIAN WELCH

It creates an unworkable situation with more questions than answers.
BRIAN WELCH

It creates an unworkable situation ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦ with more questions than answers.
BRIAN WELCH

And the others all have three feet of water in their homes.
BRIAN WELCH

I worshipped money so much that it ruined my life. Money is not my god. I just want to manage His mo...
BRIAN WELCH

My family never took me to church except a couple of times. But when I was 12, I hung out with this ...
BRIAN WELCH

I just love those guys, even though they think I'm crazy. I pray for them every day.
BRIAN WELCH

I couldn't live like that with my friends worshipping money. I couldn't live like that. People wante...
BRIAN WELCH

I'm real excited. I'm so blessed to have so much peace and joy inside. I just can't keep quiet about...
BRIAN WELCH

Historically, the minority party in Congress votes against raising the debt limit, forcing the major...
PETER WELCH

'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of t...
FLORENCE WELCH

Yes, it is long past time we get serious about tackling the nation's ever-growing deficits. But ...
PETER WELCH

I have 30 years of military service, having served in combat.
BILL WELCH

I support the right of a woman to choose. I'm not going to be an advocate for abortion, but neither ...
BILL WELCH

The human toll and the toll on our community will be a challenge that all of us are going to have to...
BILL WELCH

The hurricanes had us a little worried this year about what might happen to our giving. But the peop...
BILL WELCH

It's one thing to send construction teams -- and that's great -- but it's quite another to ask these...
BOBBY WELCH

Praise God for those humble, generous folks. However, we need many, many more people and churches re...
BOBBY WELCH

Despite this horrific tragedy and temporary setback, Southern Baptists in Alabama, Mississippi and L...
BOBBY WELCH

Despite the best efforts of the news media, it's impossible to sense the confusion, observe the dest...
BOBBY WELCH

I've always been attracted to romantic secondhand clothes. But my style developed as I started g...
FLORENCE WELCH

I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in s...
FLORENCE WELCH

In Washington, 'delay' is too often code for 'derail.' Wink, wink.
PETER WELCH

Until now salmon have just vanished into the big black box of the ocean.
DAVID WELCH

The potential for Home Star to create jobs is proven and real. In Vermont, our statewide energy effi...
PETER WELCH

Home Star is a common sense idea that would create jobs and provide a boost to local economies, whil...
PETER WELCH

What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the...
JACK WELCH

I grow 10 heirloom varieties in my garden, but I get mine locally from Green Acres on Route 51 near ...
RICK WELCH

The story about GE that hasn't been told is the value of an informal place. I think it's a b...
JACK WELCH

If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, per...
JACK WELCH

We see the political process in Iraq as providing an opportunity to the country to rebuild itself .....
DAVID WELCH

My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top...
JACK WELCH

The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and t...
JAMES WELCH

You have distress selling. We're in a market that is slowly dying out. There's not much volume at al...
JOHN WELCH

Homes and buildings, many of which are old and drafty, eat up 40 percent of the energy America uses....
PETER WELCH

We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies...
JACK WELCH

I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.
FLORENCE WELCH

I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do d...
FLORENCE WELCH

I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my prot...
FLORENCE WELCH

I think music should be scary. Music is an exorcism.
FLORENCE WELCH

I was afraid of it [the internet]... because I couldn't type.
JACK WELCH

Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, ...
JACK WELCH

Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imaginat...
JAMES WELCH

Before, Indian people had been so defeated, they were always looking for outsiders, for the governme...
JAMES WELCH

Last night, I had a telephone townhall for my constituents back in Vermont, and we had 11,500 people...
PETER WELCH

He took that all out of context. He just didn't understand the point I was making.
CHRIS WELCH

It's a very legitimate point.
ANDY WELCH

It'll be a difference from spaghetti. They get a lot of spaghetti.
PATRICIA WELCH

We're all asking where we are going to go.
BARRY WELCH

Swipe fees have increased steadily since the introduction of debit cards 20 years ago, when there we...
PETER WELCH

We need to do a better job as an office of knowing what information we have and letting people know ...
ANDY WELCH

Some of those kids did have difficulties, and there were one or two that police officers had to sit ...
ANDY WELCH

In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency o...
JACK WELCH

I felt like, you know, my presence in the world of cinema had a different meaning than Meryl Streep... There was an impact that was made, but it wasn't the usual.

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I felt like, you know, my presence in the world of cinema had a different meaning than Meryl Streep... There was an impact that was made, but it wasn't the usual.

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