Frederick Marryat Quotes

It's just six of one and half-a-dozen of the other.

Frederick Marryat

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• I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Writing
  • Singing
  • Dreams

• I coach a high school wrestling team and a middle school team. I consider myself a coach and an activist, so I'm really involved in the community.

  

  Nate Parker
  • School
  • High
  • Team

• Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.

  

  Tara Strong
  • You
  • Play
  • Personality

• Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Society
  • You
  • Know

• Normally, learning lines is fairly easy for me, but when you add an accent onto that, it adds a complexity that I had not anticipated.

  

  Rachel Skarsten
  • Me
  • Learning
  • Easy

• Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

  

  Pat Robertson
  • History
  • Politics
  • Fool

• Of course, nothing just falls into your lap - to get where I am now, I've worked hard.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Hard
  • Worked

• Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Know
  • Gift
  • Test

• Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • School
  • Business
  • Committed

• There's always been a relationship between the film world and fashion.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • World
  • Relationship
  • Fashion

• Many of my early Vines and collaborations were with gay people.

  

  Nash Grier
  • People
  • Gay
  • Early

• Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Free
  • Internet
  • Information

• Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Truth

• Then I turned round and saw the British Union Jack under which I had been sitting and it was then that I realised that my poor country, India, did not even have a flag of her own - and it was this that triggered off my complete breakdown.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Country

• I am sensitive to the fact that other people may have different beliefs.

  

  Ben Carson
  • People
  • Different
  • May

• It doesn't matter what age you are, an effective song will move you.

  

  Britt Daniel
  • Age
  • Song

• Choose to patronise your local farmers; as eaters, you need to demand a different type of food. Appreciate the pigginess of the pig.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • Different
  • Food

• I know we're all addicted to our smartphones, and I'll say, if I forget my smartphone, I go home and get it. And so understanding how to integrate that technology into the driving experience, both the front seat and the passenger seat and the back seat, I think is very important.

  

  Mary Barra
  • Important
  • Home
  • Experience

• I get up early and open my emails, write cheques, and answer the phone; whatever needs to be done.

  

  Martin Parr
  • Up
  • Done

• You should be willing to do something that will take you five minutes or less for anybody.

  

  Adam Rifkin
  • Minutes
  • To Do
  • Anybody

• You know, if you're an American and you're born at this time in history especially, you're lucky. We all are. We won the world history Powerball lottery, but a little modesty about it might keep the heat off of us. I can't stand the people who say things like, 'We built this country!' You built nothing. I think the railroads were pretty much up by 1980.

  

  Bill Maher
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Unlike me, a lot of child actors are very short, which is why they work. So when they're 15 they can play 11 or when they're 18 they can play 14. They look young for so long, they have abilities a much younger kid wouldn't have.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Work
  • Long
  • Children

• I'm grateful that President Trump is willing to talk about paid leave, but his policy, unfortunately, is woefully inadequate.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
  • Trump

• It's just six of one and half-a-dozen of the other.

  

  Frederick Marryat