Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Quotes

If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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• My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Nature
  • Best
  • Language

• It's nice not to be too boring.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Nice
  • Boring
  • Too

• I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Pretty
  • Like
  • Coffee

• I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Career
  • Past
  • Present

• Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • France
  • YouTube
  • Naive

• I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.

  

  Vance Joy
  • People
  • Book
  • Road

• Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Parents
  • More
  • Shine

• My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.

  

  Dan Blocker
  • Good
  • Say
  • Ride

• One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Change

• I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • American
  • Proud
  • Competition

• But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Challenge
  • Acting
  • Loved

• Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Heart
  • Beauty
  • Beholder

• I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Time
  • Writing
  • College

• Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Yourself
  • Try
  • Be Yourself

• A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • People
  • Art
  • Politics

• I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Bad

• Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Interesting
  • Always
  • Humor

• I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Good
  • Long
  • Done

• The universe is very big - there's about 100,000 million galaxies in the universe, so that means an awful lot of stars. And some of them, I'm pretty certain, will have planets where there was life, is life, or maybe will be life. I don't believe we're alone.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Pretty

• I was one of those dancers who they say wants to feel the floor through their pointe shoes. I would end up not wearing toe pads and that stuff. I would just wrap minimal amounts of paper towels around my toes.

  

  Margaret Qualley
  • Up
  • Shoes

• Most people are not prepared to have their minds changed, and I think they know in their hearts that other people are just the same, and one of the reasons people become angry when they argue is that they realize just that, as they trot out their excuses.

  

  Iain Banks
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Heart

• I hated myself for so many reasons, and I thought so many things were my fault that happened to me growing up.

  

  Mary J. Blige
  • Up
  • Growing

• You guys are just jealous because i'm a natural athlete and you can't cross the street without falling on your face." -(Bird) Doug

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Fall
  • Athlete
  • Bird

• If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.

  

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  • Life
  • Music
  • Women