Keala Settle Quotes

I never got to see the circus... I was always in love with being a trapeze artist, though.

Keala Settle

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• I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.

  

  Damien Rice
  • People
  • Life
  • Train

• I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Time
  • Done
  • Thought

• I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • True

• The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Important
  • House

• I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Thinking
  • Day
  • Study

• I don't want to do the nerdy, goofy guy again. That was really fitting for the 'Napoleon' world, but that's kind of where I want it to stay.

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • World
  • Guy
  • Want

• I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Great
  • Money
  • Football

• I like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most actors love working in the theatre because of the camaraderie.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Love
  • Done
  • Think

• You get some directors, and I can never understand it - there's a thing they call the 'video village' where all the monitors are, and you've probably seen it on set visits - I hate that! I never, ever like sitting in video village. I get either my own monitor or a hand held monitor, and I stand right by the camera.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Hate
  • Hand
  • Stand

• For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.

  

  Owen Arthur
  • Win
  • Place
  • First

• Man, Ben Henderson, Donald Cerrone... these guys are a different level, man.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Different
  • Man
  • Ben

• Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Think
  • Expression

• I write pretty quickly. Write pretty fast. I was an old press service man. That was part of the necessity of that occupation.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Pretty
  • Man
  • Service

• Washington has incentivized the militarization of local police precincts by using federal dollars to help municipal governments build what are essentially small armies - where police departments compete to acquire military gear that goes far beyond what most of Americans think of as law enforcement.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Help
  • Small
  • Law

• We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• Once the races begin it's more difficult and there is never that much time for testing.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Time
  • Difficult
  • Once

• Exchange with Floyd Landis, at Stage 17 of the Tour de France as reported in 'Score another for Armstrong' in VeloNews (22 July 2004)

  

  Lance Armstrong

• 'I can’t imagine,' said Dupre, 'a better way to unnerve people than to tell them there’s no cause for alarm.'

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • People

• This disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and powerful, and to despise or, at least, neglect persons of poor and mean conditions, though necessary both to establish and to maintain the distinction of ranks and the order of society, is, at the same time, the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Time
  • Great
  • Society

• I have always been a person who is extremely comfortable in my skin. I have always just been myself in all these years on the public platform.

  

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

• If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Up

• Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other senses. I had to be taught other ways of understanding.

  

  Bernie Krause
  • Culture
  • Problem
  • Senses

• I encourage everyone I know that whether it be in their workplace, whether it be in a political arena or within their own families, to do what their gut tells them to do. And that involves calling it like they see it and tackling the tasks that are at hand and not worrying so much what other people are thinking or saying about them.

  

  Sarah Palin
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Political

• I never got to see the circus... I was always in love with being a trapeze artist, though.

  

  Keala Settle