Emanuel Celler Quotes

I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition.

Emanuel Celler

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• I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Time
  • Work
  • Book

• I am a perfectly normal woman. If what we do is storytelling and represent people that we see all day and every day, well, we do not see supermodels all day and every day.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • Day
  • Woman

• I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Love
  • She
  • Friend

• Politics is not an exact science.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Science
  • Politics
  • Exact

• What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.

  

  Walter Martin
  • Know
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• Presidents make their hard decisions and then abide forever with their mistakes and regrets.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Forever
  • Mistakes
  • Decisions

• I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Time
  • Long
  • Live

• Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Life
  • Live
  • Enjoy

• I have two tutors - a maths tutor and another tutor who does all the other subjects. It is part of the deal with myself; I really want to finish school. I like learning and education, and I think it is really important.

  

  Olivia DeJonge
  • Important
  • School
  • Education

• Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • History
  • Science
  • Thought

• Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Life
  • Family
  • Health

• A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • True
  • Man
  • Thing

• It's good for the NHL to implement different things - the 3-on-3, money that'll go to players - to try to get us to play at a higher level.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Good
  • Different
  • Money

• I've learned a lot of tricks from working with a lot of great producers over the years, and I think I should write a book about it!

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Great
  • Book
  • Think

• One of the things I did to make myself feel better is that I kicked up my running even more. I knew that I had to stay active, that I had to keep living as if my life was actually going to unfold naturally because when you stop, when you freeze, and you think about it, that's when the demons come and can drag you down.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Life
  • Up
  • Running

• Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Good
  • Law
  • Purpose

• To me, wrestling is therapy. No matter how bad my personal situation is, when I step into the ring, all my troubles disappear. My baggage stays in the back where it belongs.

  

  Eddie Guerrero
  • Bad
  • Me
  • Wrestling

• I don't like being weak in front of my mum or anyone for that matter. I don't like crying.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Like
  • Matter
  • Crying

• I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Writing
  • Happy
  • Sad

• They that soar too high, often fall hard.

  

  William Penn
  • Fall
  • Ambition
  • Hard

• When I was little, I saw the play Les Misérables on Broadway, I thought it was the most amazing thing I have ever seen. So I went to my manager and told him I wanted to be in it. He asked me if I could sing, and I said no. I took one lesson and landed the role of Cosette in a national tour of the musical

  

  Ashley Tisdale
  • Amazing

• Despite all philosophical differences, all major world religions have the same potential to create good human beings.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Good
  • inspirational

• I stood in the bay window at our house and I sang Away In A Manger. It was my first time on stage, but there was nobody watching. I just remember it was so natural and it was such a secret - like masturbating. I felt like I had to wait until everybody was gone. So I guess six years old would be my most important age, 'cause in that moment, I just knew what I wanted to do.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Important
  • Remember
  • Age

• I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition.

  

  Emanuel Celler
  • Ambition