Dawn French Quotes

Other than my memory being a bit woolly and my knees being a bit creaky, I don't really think there's anything I can't do.

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• No one expected me to become a champion.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Me
  • Champion
  • Become

• Let the tech firms and consulting firms build your skills, but be sure to ask yourself, 'Am I maximizing my impact?' 'Am I living up to my values?'

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Up
  • Yourself
  • Values

• I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Up
  • Hollywood
  • Got

• History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar.

  

  Mal Peet
  • History
  • Road
  • Burger

• I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Study
  • Stress
  • Year

• The fact to the matter is, we never developed a comprehensive strategy to deal with radical Islam. And the 9/11 commission said one of the things we must do is develop a global alliance to combat it.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Said
  • Strategy
  • Islam

• I don't know, Y'know, I always wanted to be one of those cheerleader girls and I never was that, and I was never sort of cute and perky, and I always thought it was fun to be cute and perky, and those, I don't know what those girls are doing now.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Fun
  • Thought
  • Cute

• If you don't think too good, don't think too much.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Good
  • Think
  • You

• My parents were super supportive of my big dreams; I was pretty lucky. I guess I became a musician because I didn't see myself doing or loving anything else as much.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Pretty
  • Parents
  • Myself

• There is no more an enthusiastic advocate of legal immigration in the U.S. Senate than I am, and that is a message that resonates powerfully in the Hispanic community.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Community
  • Immigration
  • U.S.

• A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Man
  • Sun

• I would like to see whether my supposed successors can really operate the government without causing a crisis.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Government
  • See
  • Crisis

• When I think of my version of a role model, it's not about being the perfect Samaritan; it's just being out there and being honest and happily imperfect.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Think
  • Perfect
  • Model

• At Swarthmore, the Dean of Women was very opposed to women going into science or engineering - so opposed that if she couldn't talk a girl out of it, she just never had anything more to do with her for the four years she was there.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Women
  • Science
  • Engineering

• There has definitely been a significant bias from the local media like nothing like I have ever experienced, but I intend to have the last laugh when I win tomorrow.

  

  Karen Handel

• I want to tell Carter and Begin that when the Arabs set off their volcano there will be only Arabs in this part of the world… Our people will continue to fuel the torch of the revolution with rivers of blood until the whole of the occupied homeland is liberated, the whole of the homeland is liberated, not just a part of it.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • People
  • World
  • Revolution

• What it takes to do a job will not be learned from management courses. It is principally a matter of experience, the proper attitude, and common sense - none of which can be taught in a classroom... Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done.

  

  Hyman G. Rickover
  • People
  • Done
  • Job

• Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.

  

  Bruce Lee

• I don't like to design single objects. I like my pieces to have a relationship to each other. They can be mother and child, like the Schmoo salt and pepper shakers, or brother and sister like the Birdie salt and peppers, or cousins, like most of my dinnerware sets.

  

  Eva Zeisel
  • Mother
  • Relationship
  • Design

• When you get to the tee on a really long par 5, I know what you're feeling. You want to let the shaft out on the driver and try to bomb it down there. I get the same feeling. But a big tee shot is not always the best strategy, especially on a long hole.

  

  Ernie Els
  • Feeling
  • Strategy
  • Hole

• There are times when hard fouls are just a part of the game, and then there's times when they're a little bit further than that.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Game

• The studios aren't lining up to make films about black protagonists, black people being autonomous and independent.

  

  Ava DuVernay
  • People
  • Up
  • Black

• The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Bad
  • Soul
  • Simple

• Other than my memory being a bit woolly and my knees being a bit creaky, I don't really think there's anything I can't do.

  

  Dawn French