Elizabeth McGovern Quotes

I can't just sit around thinking how lucky I am.

Elizabeth McGovern

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• The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • May
  • Learn
  • Human

• Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • America
  • Think

• Any competent actor could have done what I did.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Done
  • Actor
  • Did

• Find a type of exercise that you love - whether it's dance, soccer, softball, anything - just as long as it keeps you active. If you love it, you'll dedicate yourself to it and stay involved.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Dance
  • Exercise
  • Active

• Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Work
  • School

• I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.

  

  Abu Abbas
  • War
  • Feel
  • Mistakes

• People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Financial

• I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there's something that I really did do. I believe I'm just ordinary. And I'd like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Believe
  • Way

• We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Experience
  • Control
  • Choose

• Few things are as essential as education.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Education
  • Things
  • Few

• I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Students
  • Brown

• I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Political
  • Goal
  • Writer

• I love doing serious movies for adults.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Serious
  • Doing
  • Movies

• I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.

  

  Carla Hall
  • People
  • Mind
  • Creativity

• Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Defense
  • Million
  • Homeland

• The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Way
  • Public
  • Frustrated

• I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Better
  • Ground
  • Holding

• Politics, I now understand, is at its best when it enlightens us via an opponent's insight.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis

• For investors who do want to speculate in high-yield bonds, one alternative may be a junk bond mutual fund, which can offer investors the relative safety of diversification.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • May
  • High
  • Safety

• America that is divided against itself cannot stand, and we cannot say we have all of this unity they say we have when black people are being discriminated against in every city in America I have visited.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • People
  • America
  • Black

• I don’t really know what “intellectual” means, but if it means you’ve got a desire to learn, you’ve got a desire to look for things that haven’t been presented to you, then, maybe. I think that “intellectual” is quite an exclusive word. I think it’s just for anyone that has a thirst or a hunger to improve themselves, or a yearning to escape from somewhere to get to a better place.

  

  Peter Daniell Doherty Babyshambles
  • Thinking
  • Desire
  • Mean

• I can't just sit around thinking how lucky I am.

  

  Elizabeth McGovern
  • Thinking