Nelsan Ellis Quotes

If you want to get married to a man, then get married to a man. If two women want to get married, they should get married. It's not hurting me.

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• The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Wise
  • Contradict

• Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Know

• The amazing thing about being a dad is to be able to look at your child and realize that the universe is so much bigger than you.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Dad
  • Amazing
  • Universe

• Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

  

  Jack Welch
  • You
  • Change
  • Lead

• It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Live
  • Home
  • Child

• I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Country
  • School
  • High

• What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Night
  • Poverty
  • Unemployment

• For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • People
  • Matter
  • Everyone

• The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Will
  • Take
  • Ideology

• At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • You
  • First
  • Reservations

• There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Time
  • God
  • Believe

• I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • People
  • Know
  • Hand

• In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.

  

  Warren Stephens
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Drama
  • Books
  • Interests

• In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • World
  • Real
  • Book

• Fantasy was something I'd read as a child. And, in fact, my teachers despaired a little bit because I refused to give up Enid Blyton. Then I walked through the wardrobe with C. S. Lewis, and I don't think I actually have returned fully from the wardrobe. So, fantasy was something that was in my life from quite young.

  

  Fiona McIntosh
  • Life
  • Up
  • Child

• And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Read
  • Theater
  • Journalism

• The Information Age offers much to mankind, and I would like to think that we will rise to the challenges it presents. But it is vital to remember that information - in the sense of raw data - is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Knowledge

• Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.

  

  Bodhidharma
  • Karma

• After divorce, women’s biggest fear is economic deprivation; men’s biggest fear is emotional deprivation.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Fear

• But more overt sexual aggression may be the product of something few will acknowledge, at least on the record: Resentment. Off the record, in dozens of interviews over a period of years, male soldiers and officers have confided that many men resent women because they've been forced to pretend that women are equals, and men know they're not.

  

  Kathleen Parker
  • Men
  • Women
  • May

• It's a funny song and a funny video about a very serious topic. A lot of women die at the hands of their husbands.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Women
  • Song
  • Funny

• If you want to get married to a man, then get married to a man. If two women want to get married, they should get married. It's not hurting me.

  

  Nelsan Ellis
  • Women