Emilia Wickstead Quotes

I don't like the word 'ladylike.'

Emilia Wickstead

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• It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Work
  • Different
  • Know

• Hungary will stop at nothing when it comes to protecting its citizens.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Stop
  • Nothing
  • Will

• I love having critics for breakfast.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Love
  • Breakfast
  • Critics

• I sat in the green room at Radio City Music Hall for the 2006 NFL Draft. At my table, I was encircled by my parents, brother, agent, former coaches and close friends.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Parents

• Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.

  

  Gary North
  • Long
  • Action
  • Christian

• So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Learning
  • Literature

• They had enough. They wanted to enjoy their life.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Life
  • Enough
  • Enjoy

• I think you kind of hope for people to gush over movies, but I think the opposite way is great sometimes, too. I'd rather have a movie that you're angry about and that you're talking about the next day, than something you forget about when the popcorn goes into the trash.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • People
  • Great
  • Movie

• The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Interesting
  • Happen
  • Bedroom

• It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Power
  • Man
  • Free

• I don't want to hear songs about how sunshiny things are. I don't like songs that feel like radio candy... I like the ones that make you think, laugh or cry - they pull some kind of emotion out of you.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Think
  • Want
  • Laugh

• There has to be a willingness to constantly accept critical feedback and rapidly iterate to make things better.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Better
  • Accept
  • Feedback

• No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Kids
  • Never
  • Parenting

• I think there's so much emphasis on body image and results and outcome, but really what you should be after is to be healthy and to feel good about yourself.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Good
  • Body
  • Yourself

• I learned life from some good teachers.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Life
  • Good
  • Learned

• I wasn't a glamour-puss, and there were more interesting roles for an actress like me in the theater and in live television.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • Live
  • Interesting
  • Me

• I like my subjects to be American, and not too dead, so I can interview people who knew them.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • People
  • American
  • I Can

• Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Think
  • Support
  • Doing

• Besides, when you say you're a feminist it annoys the bigots and the old farts and the prissy ladies so much, it's kind of irresistible.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Feminist

• He was thirty-one now, not too old, but old enough to be lonely. He hadn't dated since he'd been back here, hadn't met anyone who remotely interested him. It was his own fault, he knew. There was something that kept a distance between him and any woman who started to get close, something he wasn't sure he could change even if he tried. And sometimes in the moments right before sleep came, he wondered if he was destined to be alone forever.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Moments
  • Sleep
  • Sometimes

• Finally, ultimately, you write music for yourself. I mean, I need a public, I need people to play, I need everything else. I'm not working in isolation. But finally the man that writes the music is alone. And I have to respond to those criteria which are almost like inner needs or inner responses.

  

  Philip Glass
  • People
  • Music
  • Alone

• Our rights come from God, not the government.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • God
  • Government
  • Come

• I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Father
  • Education
  • Say

• I don't like the word 'ladylike.'

  

  Emilia Wickstead