Christina Ricci Quotes

I didn't use to think anything was worth keeping private. Now I do.

Christina Ricci

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• My direction has never really changed, because I don't think that you can really work gimmicks in gospel music. With gospel music, there is this central theme that always comes around about the love of God, the love of Jesus and the power that you have through Jesus Christ. You don't need a gimmick when you have that.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Music
  • God
  • Love

• A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Interesting
  • Revolution

• A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Political
  • Run
  • Key

• Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Like
  • Logic
  • Sword

• London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • World
  • London
  • Most

• We need to and must protect privacy. But I think that people will be willing and even eager to share medical information about themselves for the greater good of mankind.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • People
  • Good
  • Medical

• Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Women
  • Mother

• I love doing yoga and also enjoy going for regular walks.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Enjoy
  • Doing
  • Yoga

• My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was super clever - the cleverest person. He landed in 5ft of snow, and was alone at 14, studying science and engineering. He didn't have a bed, and he slept on a table.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Up
  • Science
  • Dad

• Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • School
  • Book
  • High

• Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Science
  • Challenge
  • Teach

• It's the same thing that drives people to want to experience sexual pleasure or have one too many drinks. We all want to experience the other, and to get out of our daily existence.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • People
  • Experience
  • Daily

• You want me to tell me the truth or do you want me to stroke you?

  

  Ed Koch
  • Truth
  • Want
  • Me

• I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Silence

• I am not called Cugel the Clever for nothing.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Clever

• For all the dreams we've dreamed And all the songs we've sung And all the hopes we've held And all the flags we've hung, The millions who have nothing for our pay - Except the dream that's almost dead today.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Today
  • Dream

• The problem after a war is the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?

  

  A. J. Muste
  • War
  • Violence

• When I write 'paradise' I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Women
  • Death
  • Paradise

• If we could have devised an arrangement for providing everybody with music in their homes, perfect in quality, unlimited in quantity, suited to every mood, and beginning and ceasing at will, we should have considered the limit of human felicity already attained, and ceased to strive for further improvements.

  

  Edward Bellamy
  • Music
  • Perfect
  • Quality

• We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.

  

  John McDonald
  • World
  • Power
  • Environment

• Having walked on the Moon, I know something about what we need to explore, really explore, in space.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Space
  • Moon
  • Explore

• If the media spotlight affects my work or represses what I want to say in the future, then it is bad.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Want
  • Media
  • Spotlight

• Managers, regardless of salary, should not be allowed to earn or use comp time. They are expected to work as many hours as needed to get the job done - especially at these salary levels.

  

  Jodi Rell
  • Time
  • Work
  • Done

• I didn't use to think anything was worth keeping private. Now I do.

  

  Christina Ricci