Ellen Key Quotes
The condition of all development is not to be content with the present, but to have the courage to ask how everything can be made better and the good fortune to find a right answer to this question in thought or in action.Ellen Key
Quotes to Explore
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The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.
Zoe Kravitz -
Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
Rabih Alameddine -
In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
Carl Sagan -
I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
Zach Galligan -
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
Yul Vazquez -
I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.
Kate Upton -
I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.
Famke Janssen -
I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.
Karen Gillan -
I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.
Iman -
When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.
Gabriel Mann
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Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.
Wayne Dyer -
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
Dag Hammarskjold -
I wrote a song several years ago while I was in college called 'Muscadine Wine.' I really didn't know if it had potential or not, if it was good or bad or what. I played it for my roommates - who I played ball with - one night, and I knew they would tell me the truth. They loved it, and that encouraged me.
Sam Hunt -
I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
Warren Buffett -
I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Good reporting should have the same standard as in a courtroom - beyond a reasonable doubt.
Barbara Demick
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All my time in rehab has made me appreciate tennis more than ever.
Kim Clijsters -
My ears sort of turn off when someone tells me that what my heart is saying isn't a good idea.
Chrisette Michele Payne -
This generation of filmmakers is very good. They're seasoned, for some reason.
Dennis Farina -
I believe God created sports for a good reason. It's recreation. It's something that we enjoy. It teaches us a lot as well... I believe God is a sports fan.
Luke Scott -
My first drafts are always terrible, and I hate them, but the process for me is all about writing the bad version until it tells you what the good version is. And then you write that.
Jesse Andrews -
The condition of all development is not to be content with the present, but to have the courage to ask how everything can be made better and the good fortune to find a right answer to this question in thought or in action.
Ellen Key