Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes

I was terrible at school.

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• I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • Face
  • Changing

• America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • America
  • Artist
  • Talent

• I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Love
  • Want
  • Forever

• It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.

  

  Kate Burton
  • Good
  • Family
  • You

• Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Smart
  • Poverty
  • Immigration

• I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Up
  • Night
  • Jazz

• What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • People
  • Good
  • Future

• There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.

  

  Sam Richards
  • United States
  • Odd
  • United

• Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happiness
  • Knowing
  • Grateful

• The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.

  

  Ira Glasser
  • You
  • Religious
  • Liberty

• It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Life
  • Way
  • Feelings

• I remember we woke up one morning at Denny's house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, what's wrong, what's going on? He said, well, everybody's dead over at Sharon's house at Terry Melcher's place.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Up
  • Remember
  • House

• We imbue deserts and the tundra with menace because nothing, or little, grows there.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Nothing
  • Because
  • Little

• Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • People
  • Important
  • Future

• I was very much in love with my mother. She was a very warm and a very cold woman. When she was warm, I tried to come close to her. But she could be very cold and rejecting.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Love
  • She
  • Mother

• When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Why
  • Business

• Whatever a person's politics, lawyers have to understand that we are, for most people, the gateway for them to have access to the third branch of government.

  

  Patricia Millett
  • People
  • Government
  • Politics

• Twitter has been a godsend for travelling.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Been
  • Twitter
  • Travelling

• I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.

  

  Alex Trebek
  • Great
  • Winning
  • Pleasure

• I really thought I wanted to be a lawyer, but then I had an epiphany when I was in law school and dropped out. I'd always been a journalism junkie, but I'd never had confidence to think that I could actually edit or write the stories.

  

  Jodi Kantor
  • School
  • Law
  • Confidence

• The vast majority of kids in my school went on to college. That's just what you did. And I remember feeling like, 'No, I'm not doing that.' The idea that college was next, that it was a given, meant it was of no interest to me. So I didn't go.

  

  James Murphy
  • School
  • Kids
  • Remember

• For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.

  

  George A. Romero
  • School
  • Guy
  • Funny

• Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.

  

  Anna Garlin Spencer
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• I was terrible at school.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • School