Nellie McKay Quotes

I guess you deal with what you get.

Nellie McKay

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• I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Character
  • Story
  • Looks

• I want to make shoes that a woman can walk in. That's kind of what they're made for.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Woman
  • Shoes
  • Walk

• I was in that part of the class that made the top half possible.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Possible
  • Class
  • Top

• Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • God
  • Age
  • Success

• Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Book
  • Universe
  • Language

• Con men look for human frailty to exploit. This is most often greed. Trump found a different vice: anger. The emotional are always the most susceptible to manipulation.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Men
  • Different
  • Emotional

• What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Understanding
  • Justice
  • Empathy

• I stopped going to Kingdom Hall, the church, when I was 11 years old, so I was very young. They don't celebrate birthdays, you get no Christmas, so it's a very difficult religion for children to get into. And they do a lot of finger-pointing among the Jehovah's Witnesses.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Children
  • Church
  • Christmas

• Love has no age.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Love
  • Age
  • For Her

• There is one common thing in superstars - enthusiasm and humility towards their work. Off sets, they are big stars for others, and they carry themselves the way they want to. When they are working, they are not stars.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Work
  • Stars
  • Humility

• I'm an entrepreneur first and a wine critic second.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • First
  • Wine
  • Entrepreneur

• Texas, to be respected, must be polite. Santa Anna, living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna, dead, would just be another dead Mexican.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Living
  • Texas
  • Mexican

• Most jokes state a bitter truth.

  

  Larry Gelbart
  • Truth
  • Bitter
  • Jokes

• Select your friendships carefully. Gather people around you who will reinforce your lifestyle.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • People
  • You
  • Friendships

• I love to score goals, and I love to plan my celebrations.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Goals
  • Plan
  • Celebrations

• Run the creature has come, there's no cover for you no prize When you've won.

  

  Macy Gray

• It was nothing that I think any one of us took on because it was a gig that was available. It was something that felt like a true passion and something that every single person brought much more than any of us could have expected. … I do honestly feel honored to be part of this group.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • True
  • Single
  • Passion

• Consider the human mind! It is capable of amazing feats when used properly. Conversely, without exercise it atrophies to a lump of gray-yellow fat.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Mind
  • Amazing
  • Exercise

• I understand that you can never have the whole picture; inevitably, there’s stuff you don’t know, can’t know. But when it comes to Cameron I always want more than I have, would like to be able to take hold of at least one or two more pieces, if only because I’m convinced there are parts of myself inside them.

  

  Sara Zarr
  • Want
  • Stuff
  • Able

• But the great thing about shows now is since we've been doing (Comedy Death Ray), they have lightened up on their booking policies a bit more and are booking somebody who isn't famous and who hasn't been around ten years. It's great to see people who've done our show - the first big show they've ever done - now they can play around town.

  

  Scott Aukerman
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Play

• I've loved the opportunity to learn about the fashion world and appreciate it as an art form, and I look forward to my continued education, but I never want it to take over my acting.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o
  • World
  • Art
  • Opportunity

• I suppose I would still be a communicator, maybe a musician.

  

  Conrad Hall

• People like it when others are gossiping. When you hear a story about someone's demise or some big faux-pas they made, everyone wants to tune into it, because it's nice to know that someone else made a mistake. It makes you feel elevated for a moment.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Nice
  • Mistake

• I guess you deal with what you get.

  

  Nellie McKay