Emilia Wickstead Quotes

I am a little obsessed with stripes.

Emilia Wickstead

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• I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • People
  • Create
  • I Can

• It's incredibly fun to play someone that you don't like. It exorcises your own demons in a way. It's cathartic. We all have things that we don't like about ourselves, little things. And I get to amplify those things and put them out there. It's fun and it has a cleansing effect.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Fun
  • Play
  • Little Things

• It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Money
  • Kid
  • Easier

• Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.

  

  Cara Castronuova
  • Idea
  • Boxing
  • Ring

• I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Movies
  • Scary
  • Thrill

• The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Space
  • Friend
  • Moon

• I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Good
  • Never
  • Mayor

• I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Up
  • Try
  • Personal

• There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.

  

  Walter Hagen
  • Respect
  • Missing
  • Short

• It's a lot easier to see, at least in some cases, what the long-term limits of the possible will be, because they depend on natural law. But it's much harder to see just what path we will follow in heading toward those limits.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Long
  • Law
  • Path

• 'Red Robin' was just another audition, like a lot of other auditions. I just lucked out, and I got it. It's a great group of people I get to work with. Roger Craig Smith and Will Friedle and a bunch of guys. It's fun!

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I'm a father and I'm a husband and I care about what's happening on our streets.

  

  Gabriel E. Gomez
  • Father
  • Care
  • Husband

• And I suggested to change very simple way to Olympic Games, in one competition, two different levels. Separate from, until sixteen, and after sixteen years old.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • Different
  • Change
  • Simple

• Some might complain that nuclear disarmament is little more than a dream. But that ignores the very tangible benefits disarmament would bring for all humankind. Its success would strengthen international peace and security. It would free up vast and much-needed resources for social and economic development. It would advance the rule of law.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Up
  • Success
  • Dream

• I'm looking to produce more stuff: TV shows, commercials, music videos and short films. I'm building my catalog so I can have some fun in between the times that I get to a movie.

  

  Larenz Tate
  • Music
  • Movie
  • Fun

• Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala, whence come delight and disgust and fear and anger.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Brain

• I've made a lot of mistakes. I've bonded with some people who use you, and some people that take advantage of you.

  

  Larry King
  • People
  • You
  • Mistakes

• I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated.

  

  Barbara Hershey
  • People
  • Great
  • Hollywood

• I think that, given the threat that ISIS poses to the region and beyond, as we have sadly seen in our own country, it is important to keep the Iraqi army on a path where they can actually take back territory, to work with the Sunni tribes in Anbar province and elsewhere so that their fighters can be also deployed, to work with the Kurds to provide them the support, but they're doing the fighting. We're doing the support and enabling.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Threat
  • Region
  • ISIS

• Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies.

  

  Jonas Gahr Store
  • Enemies
  • Extremist
  • Injustices

• I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced, had no existence.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Parents

• Everyone is so weird in L.A. that if you're somewhat normal, it's exotic.

  

  David Spade
  • Weird

• I am a little obsessed with stripes.

  

  Emilia Wickstead