Keira Knightley Quotes

I like watching films when I don't know anything about the people.

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• Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Soul
  • Humility
  • Foundation

• Age for me is just a number.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Age
  • Me
  • Number

• I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Life
  • Important
  • Opportunity

• If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Wall

• All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Great
  • New York
  • Employees

• What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Best

• My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.

  

  G. Hannelius
  • Good
  • Great
  • She

• I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Television

• I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Famous

• The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Power
  • Spring
  • Year

• I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Free

• The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Family
  • Society
  • Personality

• I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Live
  • Sports
  • Better

• In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Good
  • Different
  • Better

• I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • London
  • University
  • Received

• You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Real
  • You
  • Need

• There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Country
  • Hate
  • Forget

• I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Myself
  • Place
  • Broke

• I think when you're a mom and an actor, it forces you to leave any actor neuroses behind and just concentrate on the work.

  

  Anna Silk
  • Work
  • Mom

• It's important that all my friends have verified Twitter accounts. The blue checkmark makes me feel comfortable and like I'm friends with a legit, high-quality person. I also prefer friends with ridiculously long usernames.

  

  Jonah Peretti
  • Important
  • Long
  • Friends

• If your body is damaged, wounded, it can be fixed, but if inside, mentally, you are wounded you cannot fix it, it's hard.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • You
  • Body
  • Fix

• In business, the market gives you feedback in real time. Your sales figures tell you what's working, what isn't, and how you need to change. If you don't listen to the feedback, you go belly up. In philanthropy, there is no market.

  

  Jeff Raikes
  • Up
  • Time
  • Real

• If you want to write, you have to be willing to be disturbed.

  

  Kate Green
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Disturbed

• I like watching films when I don't know anything about the people.

  

  Keira Knightley
  • People