Kristian Nairn Quotes

I'm not saying I'm the bee's knees. But I am a legitimate musician.

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• I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.

  

  Jack W. Szostak
  • Hope
  • Success
  • Reading

• I get a lot of fan mail addressed to Bilbo and sometimes Sir Bilbo - it's hardly ever addressed to Ian Holm, in fact. My business manager drafts the replies, and then I pop in to the office and sign them, 'Bilbo!'

  

  Ian Holm
  • Business
  • Sometimes
  • Manager

• People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.

  

  Patricia Kaas
  • People
  • Career
  • Me

• Amateurs hope, professionals work.

  

  Garson Kanin
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Professionals

• I put the movie days totally behind me... It was a part of my past that I really kind of put in a little drawer and shut the door.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • Movie
  • Past
  • Me

• 'Single' is usually applied to women as though they are a problem to be fixed.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Women
  • Single
  • Problem

• Let's just say the genes were there for me to excel athletically.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Me
  • Say
  • Genes

• In my race, there's 10 hurdles, but in life, there is always a hurdle. There is always something you gotta get over, and it's what you do, you know.

  Gail Devers
  • Life
  • Know
  • Race

• My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Father
  • Passion
  • Doing

• Certainly it is correct to say: Conscience is the voice of God.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • God

• Our history is not our destiny.

  

  Alan Cohen
  • History
  • Destiny

• I'm pretty casual. I love Free People and small vintage boutiques.

  

  Margaret Qualley
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Free

• Through the learning experiences, I've been trying to eliminate mistakes. I don't want the same mistake to happen twice.

  

  Brock Osweiler
  • Trying
  • Learning
  • Mistake

• If we thought it would improve our relationship, we would get married tomorrow, but as it is, nearly 7 years after we got engaged, we are content to wait.

  

  Benny Anderson
  • Relationship

• When quick results are imperative, the manipulation of the masses through symbols may be the only quick way of having a critical thing done.

  

  John Grierson
  • Done
  • May
  • Manipulation

• If we emit massive quantities of untested chemicals into the environment, some of them are bound to end up in places that surprise us, doing things that endanger us.

  

  Donella Meadows
  • Up
  • Environment

• Long live Montreal, Long live Quebec! Long live Free Quebec!

  

  Charles de Gaulle
  • Long
  • Live
  • Free

• There is something strangely winning to most women in that offer of the firm arm; the help is not wanted physically at that moment, but the sense of help, the presence of strength that is outside them and yet theirs, meets a continual want of the imagination.

  

  George Eliot
  • Women
  • Help
  • Imagination

• It's important that Donald Trump and what he represents - this kind of ethnic, quote, 'conservatism,' or populism - be so decisively rebuked that the Republican Party, the Republican voters will forever learn their lesson that they cannot nominate a man so manifestly unqualified to be president in any way, shape, or form.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • Important
  • Party
  • Forever

• I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so I rarely see skin color. It's never an issue for me.

  

  Annie Ilonzeh
  • Family
  • American
  • Mother

• I like to balance competing with studying. It's hard work at the moment, but it could be worse.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Work
  • Balance
  • Moment

• It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • People
  • True
  • Learning

• As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.

  

  Kabir
  • Great
  • Fool
  • Honey

• I'm not saying I'm the bee's knees. But I am a legitimate musician.

  

  Kristian Nairn
  • Bee