Kristin Scott Thomas Quotes

The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted.

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• I think it's such a powerful thing: Words and melodies, and you put them together. I couldn't really picture a world without music. It would be quite boring.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • World
  • Music
  • Together

• His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Love
  • Fear
  • Failure

• As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems that I read, the sort of breadcrumbs of fairytale techniques, so I'm very excited when I notice that.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Help
  • Reading
  • Excited

• You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Support
  • Always
  • Might

• Fashion is something which is non-lasting; it's ephemeral.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Fashion
  • Something
  • Which

• Numerous academic studies have shown that amateur investors make poor traders - buying stocks for the wrong reasons, holding losers for too long, and acting on whims and emotions.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Long
  • Acting
  • Emotions

• I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Like
  • Outside
  • Philadelphia

• The Iranian government still denies the Holocaust - so you can't take them seriously. And the Israeli government spreads rumours and disinformation about Iran - because it needs to for the creation of panic. I find these theological states - and in this respect, Israel and Iran are twin brothers - very, very dangerous.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Respect
  • Government
  • Find

• I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Nothing
  • Confusion
  • My Own

• Someone made me a Leaf Coneybear finger puppet. Someone made me a portrait of me on some chocolate. I'm keeping it. I daren't eat such a work of art. It's so unique and so fun that fans do that. It's incredibly flattering. I like it when people spend time on me. People don't spend the same amount of time on my brother who's an insurance broker.

  

  Barrett Foa
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Attention
  • Pay
  • Talk

• Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.

  

  Aberjhani
  • People
  • Through
  • Cloud

• I really want to bring the message of love that is Islam to people; bring something new to that familiar face.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Love
  • Islam

• I do not like the idea that a Russian company cannot be successful without Western experience. I think that, at the end of the day, it is a question of bringing benchmarks from other countries. So far, the golden benchmark has been the West.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Experience
  • Question
  • Day

• Lack of time and money create really bad green practices.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Time
  • Money
  • Bad

• I remember the first time I heard a teenager say 'LOL.' Just what? But it means 'laugh.' Why don't you just laugh? What are you doing?

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Time
  • Why
  • Remember

• The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • People
  • Best
  • Attitude

• I don't think I ever wore pants on 'Reno 911!' and I was on it about five times.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Think
  • Pants
  • Five

• You can't talk about what you haven't felt.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI

• I'm a big fan of Barack Obama. I think he carries a heavier burden and is held to a greater and higher standard than other candidates : I think there's a large, large portion of this country that feels disenfranchised and marginalized by the political process.

  

  Chris Carter
  • Country
  • Political

• Politicians compete for the highest offices. Business tycoons scramble for a bigger and bigger piece of the pie. Armies march and scientists study and philosophers philosophise and preachers preach and labourers sweat. But in that silent baby, lying in that humble manger, there pulses more potential power and wisdom and grace and aliveness than all the rest of us can imagine.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Wisdom
  • Grace
  • Politicians

• When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the time most significant and seductive, seems now most futile and absurd. For instance, success in all of its various guises; being known and being praised; ostensible pleasures, like acquiring money or seducing women, or traveling, going to and fro in the world and up and down in it like Satan, exploring and experiencing whatever Vanity Fair has to offer. In retrospect all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called “licking the earth.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas