Martha Plimpton Quotes

I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd.

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• Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Think
  • Washington

• In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Life
  • Great
  • Ideas

• One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Taken
  • Wisdom
  • Tradition

• We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • School
  • Africa
  • Canada

• We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Science

• I'm going to start a new career as a singer, I think. I'm going to go the way of Russell Crowe.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Think
  • Career
  • Start

• I never exercise, and I eat everything.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Never
  • Exercise
  • Everything

• Look at the structure of the Gates Foundation and this idea that, rather than trying to solve these huge global problems through institutions with some kind of democracy and transparency baked into them, we're just going to outsource it to benevolent billionaires.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Trying
  • Democracy
  • Problems

• Cryptocurrency currencies take the concept of money, and they take it native into computers, where everything is settled with computers and doesn't require external institutions or trusted third parties to validate things.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Money
  • Where
  • Computers

• A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Money
  • Man
  • Principles

• I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good at algebra. In fact, I flunked it twice in high school.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Good
  • Mind
  • School

• I think if I was going to be someone for a day, I would want to be a performer, someone big, like Rihanna. I'd want to feel the energy of being on stage. I've always found that very interesting.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Interesting
  • Energy
  • Day

• My initial thoughts of becoming a lawyer changed in high school as I became more attracted to math and science and began talking about being an engineer.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • School
  • High
  • Science

• Most people think I'm immodest.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Think
  • Most

• In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • Time
  • Power
  • Existence

• When you're an actor, you just hope you get a job to go to.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Job
  • Hope
  • Actor

• Books can capture injustices in a way that stays with you and makes you want to do something about them. That's why they are so powerful.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Why
  • Want
  • Powerful

• I'm so convinced that hiking helps my writing that I recently decided to offer a series of hiking-writing workshops to see if others had the same experience.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Same

• I'm big on facial expressions, and I'm big on mannerisms, which I find to be hilarious.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Find
  • Big
  • Hilarious

• I never planned to be a model at all. I moved to Paris to study art, and I was there working as an artist, taking classes, and I had a little sick dog that I was using up all of my money to try and heal. It was right at that point that this photographer, Errol Sawyer, saw me at the phoning office and convinced me to let him take my photo.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Up
  • Money
  • Art

• In that Holy Place where you tell Him everything and he understands; there are angels who stand in wait to hear his every command. How may they serve you and increase your joy?

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • May
  • Joy
  • Angels

• If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • Home
  • Sadness
  • Pleasures

• I believe in creative failing - to contine to write poems that fail and fail and fail until a day comes when you've got a thousand poems behind you and you're relaxed and you finally write a good poem.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Writing
  • Creative
  • Behinds

• I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd.

  

  Martha Plimpton