Christine Quinn Quotes

I'm in a position where, if you have the ability, you should use it well. To get things done.

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• No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Life
  • Live
  • Thoughts

• Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Time
  • World
  • Love

• When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Work
  • Free
  • Resume

• The physicality of any character is always split up into fast, slow, high energy, low energy, what kind of personality he has. So that's where the physicality comes in. And flying through the air is just something you have to do if they ask you.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Up
  • Character
  • High

• You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Live
  • Death
  • Look

• I didn't expect to have music as my main thing. I always thought I was going to be a lawyer. When I graduated, I was doing really well with my music in Malaysia. I had stable income, and I had really good momentum in the music industry, so I had to make a decision whether to stop that and continue being a lawyer.

  

  Yuna
  • Good
  • Music
  • Stop

• In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.

  

  Karen Maitland
  • Animals
  • London
  • Elephant

• I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • People
  • Think
  • Opinion

• Credit you give yourself is not worth having.

  

  Irving Thalberg
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Credit

• If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Life
  • May
  • Design

• Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Why
  • Name
  • Hindsight

• People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Acting
  • Doing
  • Worst

• I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Political
  • Talk
  • Matters

• Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Good
  • Professional
  • Gracious

• Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • Focus
  • Listen
  • Saying

• When meetings are the norm - the first resort, the go-to tool to discuss, debate, and solve every problem - they no longer work.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Work

• A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and personal response, the communal nature of the audience is like having five hundred people read your novel and respond to it at the same time. I find that thrilling.

  

  August Wilson
  • People
  • Time
  • May

• But why doesn't the Gospel ever say that Christ laughed?" I asked, for no good reason. "Is Jorge right?" "Legions of scholars have wondered whether Christ laughed. The question doesn't interest me much. I believe he never laughed, because, omniscient as the son of God had to be, he knew how we Christians would behave. . . .

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Good
  • God
  • Believe

• Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.

  

  Denzel Washington
  • Work
  • Done

• I love to run and I have some tips to keep it fresh and novel. I rarely use the same route twice. That keeps things new.

  

  Dean Karnazes

• I'm in a position where, if you have the ability, you should use it well. To get things done.

  

  Christine Quinn
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