Emma Thompson Quotes

My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman.

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• Don't let the Disney princess hair fool you.

  

  Raha Moharrak
  • Hair
  • Fool
  • Disney

• When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!

  

  Laura Marano
  • You
  • Feel
  • Audience

• The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Character
  • Imagination

• Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Up
  • World
  • Dream

• When I finished graduate school, I had a master's of fine arts from a prestigious institution, a manuscript that would eventually become my first published book - and almost no marketable skills.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • School
  • Book
  • Skills

• Sometimes I draw blanks.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Sometimes
  • Draw
  • Blanks

• I think that, for me, Superman just seemed to make a lot of sense to me. After doing 'Watchmen,' it was – you know that thing, you've got to know the rules before you can break them? There was something about that in making 'Watchmen.'

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Know
  • Sense
  • Rules

• Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Time
  • Change
  • Revolution

• I'm humble 'cause I think many years ago people say, 'Well, Alibaba's terrible company'. And I know we were not that terrible. We're pretty good; we're better than people thought. But today, when people have a high expectation on you, and I start to worry and nervous because we are not good yet.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Good
  • High

• I believe in the Constitution - and I believe in common sense.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Believe
  • Common Sense

• 'Dance Dance Revolution.' That's a lot of fun when you're having a dinner party and you just want to be a little silly.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Fun
  • Party
  • Dance

• Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Men
  • Women
  • Home

• I've been through a lot of beef with other singers, but it's all verbal.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • Through
  • Singers
  • Beef

• Human nature is governed by general self-interest and affected by genetic predisposition, which implies that there are likely to be limits to our moral sensitivities.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Nature
  • Moral

• Each finding like a friendSomething to blame, and something to commend.

  

  Alexander Pope

• Stop beatin round the bush,Let's get it on.

  

  Marvin Gaye
  • Stop

• Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. Short, therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Past

• A large group of Iranians have doubts about last month's (June) disputed presidential election … something should be done about the situation., on the 2009 presidential election.

  

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
  • Done
  • Presidential
  • June

• Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues -- communicating with an audience.

  

  Casey Kasem
  • Men
  • Audience
  • Issues

• What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?

  

  Bette Greene
  • Challenge
  • Genius
  • Response

• One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the "wisdom of this world," which an impudent wind bag tries to dispose of "by the foolishness of preaching."

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Wisdom
  • Preaching
  • New Testament

• Sometimes I take a movie that I know is not great; it's not great on the page, but I need to work. Sometimes I need to make the money. I need dough. I want to work, and so I'll take something that is compromised in some arena. But it's like, actors gotta act.

  

  Holly Hunter
  • Work
  • Great
  • Money

• My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman.

  

  Emma Thompson