Ellen Potter Quotes

If E.B. White were writing in 2013, would there be a 'Charlotte's Web' trailer and an @SomePig Twitter account? I doubt it. Yet, in a way, he'd be missing out because I'm beginning to think that some of this noise is worth making - and some of it is worth hearing, too.

Ellen Potter

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• How lucky am I?

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Lucky
  • How
  • Am

• In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Life
  • Real
  • Beautiful

• I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Place
  • Anxiety
  • Youth

• Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Control
  • Company
  • Stock

• I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Hair
  • Pink
  • Fifteen

• Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.

  

  Hafez
  • Trying
  • Running
  • Happiness

• I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Question

• It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.

  

  Pankaj Patel
  • Up
  • Opinion
  • Creative

• Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • People
  • Long
  • Power

• Keratin can be very colorful, as we see in birds. We'd expect dinosaurs to be very colorful because they basically invented the characteristics we see in birds.

  

  Jack Horner
  • See
  • Birds
  • Colorful

• I'm not someone who wears shades all the time and ducks into a darkened car in case I'm recognized - that would be absolute misery.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Time
  • Car
  • Someone

• I don't want to get fat.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Want
  • Get
  • Fat

• IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Age
  • Restaurant

• Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • People
  • Good
  • Emotional

• When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda strayed from that because of the writers I was hanging out with.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • World
  • Song
  • Big

• When I was 15 years old, I left school and became a professional boxer.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • School
  • Professional
  • Old

• It would have been easy for me to bring out a real cheesy pop song, but 'Please Don't Let Me Go' isn't your typical 'X Factor' single, and it's a grower, not a shower.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Real
  • Song
  • Me

• The reason I was angry all the time was that Gloria Steinem and all those people, without reading my work, were saying all these horrible things against me.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.

  

  Andrew Denton
  • People
  • Country
  • Faith

• Once firms had to pay to pollute, they became incredibly inventive at figuring out cheaper ways to eliminate their SO2 emissions.

  

  Bob Frank
  • Eliminate
  • Pollute
  • CO2 emmisions

• Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears Moist it again, and frame some feeling line That may discover such integrity.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Writing
  • Feelings
  • Tears

• I hate to let people down. I was like that in sports and I was like that in comedy. I was like that at work. When I worked General Motors and stuff like that, when I say something, I mean it.

  

  Bernie Mac
  • People
  • Work
  • Hate

• I find OOP methodologically wrong. It starts with classes. It is as if mathematicians would start with axioms. You do not start with axioms - you start with proofs. Only when you have found a bunch of related proofs, can you come up with axioms. You end with axioms. The same thing is true in programming: you have to start with interesting algorithms. Only when you understand them well, can you come up with an interface that will let them work.

  

  Alexander Stepanov
  • Proofs
  • Interface
  • Axioms

• If E.B. White were writing in 2013, would there be a 'Charlotte's Web' trailer and an @SomePig Twitter account? I doubt it. Yet, in a way, he'd be missing out because I'm beginning to think that some of this noise is worth making - and some of it is worth hearing, too.

  

  Ellen Potter
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • Doubt