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

• I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Success
  • Know
  • Wait

• 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

• When facing the public, politicians constantly filter their ideas through a political sieve. 'How will this affect the environmentalists, labor, management?' Sometimes the sieve gets so clogged by political taboos that no new ideas pass through.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Political
  • Ideas
  • Management

• '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

• Visionary idealism is a male art form. The lesbian aesthete does not exist. But if there were one, she would have learned from the perverse male mind.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Mind
  • Art
  • She

• 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

• The playing field is more sacred than the stock exchange, more blessed than Capital Hill or the vaults of Fort Knox. The diamond and the gridiron - and, to a lesser degree, the court, the rink, the track, and the ring - embody the American dream of Eden.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • American
  • Dream
  • Blessed

• We start off pretty fast, but now we've got to be able to maintain. It won't get a chance to get like that, because I will not let that happen again.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Chance
  • Again
  • Maintain

• When the sun is shining, the right song is on, and I'm with people I love.

  

  Cynthia Addai-Robinson
  • People
  • Love
  • Song

• I was never good at painting. The great turning point came when I had a block of wood and I carved a shape into the wood and put a small piece of timber into that space - like a negative - and so it made an endless column, only inward.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Good
  • Great
  • Small

• 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