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 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

• When I did 'Rocky Horror,' I didn't want to meet the audience afterward, because they'd been having a good time yelling names at me all night, and I didn't really want to tell them that I didn't have such a good time being yelled at all night.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Time
  • Good
  • Night

• It's great that people get together and collaborate, talk about the facts and the analysis, all in the interest of having a great financial system.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • People
  • Great
  • Together

• The aspect of sport that you learn is that you have your good times and your bad times, but you share it with great people.

  

  George Gregan
  • Learn
  • Times
  • Sport

• Of course, it gave the studio an enormous power, because I don't know any other place who had that skill with images to communicate with. And the need of these kinds of images are even greater now than they ever were because we are losing our life symbols.

  

  John Hench
  • Life
  • Power

• Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state.

  

  James K. Polk
  • God
  • Church
  • Connection

• Every time I catch myself saying, "Oh no, you shouldn't try that," I think, "Yes, I should."

  

  Erica Jong
  • Think
  • Should
  • Saying

• 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