Martine Syms Quotes

I guess I can be a little mischievous!

Martine Syms

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• CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Women
  • Health
  • Religious

• Today, we face another major potential attack on our country. This attack is not a hijacked plane or bomb, although that remains a threat; rather, it is a cyber attack.

  

  Dan Coats
  • Country
  • Today
  • Potential

• There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Country
  • Political
  • Strong

• How does one measure the success of a museum?

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Success
  • Measure
  • Museum

• Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Children
  • Problem
  • Violence

• It was difficult to realize, 'I'm lieutenant governor.' And Brown appropriately reminded me of that.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Difficult
  • Realize
  • Governor

• Despite great advances in women's rights, statistics show that when it comes to the balance of power between the sexes, equality is far from being a global reality.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Great
  • Women
  • Power

• Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Words
  • Building
  • Blossom

• When you subpoena one pastor, you subpoena every pastor.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • You
  • Every
  • Pastor

• My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy business. The conversations around the dinner table were all about the factory floor and how many machines were running and what was happening in the business. I grew up very engaged in manufacturing and as part of a family business.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Up
  • Family
  • Business

• For me, acting comes straight from the heart. In that sense I don't act at all. I think that to feel the character's pain I have to be myself. Somewhere audiences see that.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Heart
  • Character
  • Pain

• 'Walking Dead' has done great on Netflix, but to pay for the full output deal just to get 'Walking Dead' didn't make sense.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Great
  • Done
  • Walking

• My parents are pretty good about keeping me humble. They brought me up good.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Up
  • Good
  • Pretty

• Terrorists convince thousands of people to kill themselves in the name of God. I can't convince two of my friends to help me move.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • People
  • God
  • Friends

• No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull and it would also make no sense.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Book
  • Want
  • Science

• We do not need French post-structuralism, whose pedantic jargon, clumsy convolutions, and prissy abstractions have spread throughout academe and the arts and are now blighting the most promising minds of the next generation. This is a major crisis if there ever was one, and every sensible person must help bring it to an end.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Help

• She sounded how you'd expect talking to a tree to sound - bored out of her mind.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Mind
  • She
  • Tree

• When we commit violence against an infant girl, we call it child abuse; when we commit violence against an infant boy, we call it circumcision.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Girl
  • Violence
  • Boy

• I have a sense of being at peace. I understand when you give the sign of peace, and when the priest says, 'Peace be with you,' in a way I never did 10 or 15 years ago. I have a deep personal sense of what that means.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • Peace
  • Deep

• I think a lot of the basis of the open source movement comes from procrastinating students.

  

  Andrew Tridgell
  • Movement
  • Source
  • Procrastinating

• Hue does not refer to how light, dark, or intense, but only what kind of color: what hue. It takes all three aspects to make a color, therefore 'red' is not a color, but only one aspect, the hue, of some partially defined color.

  

  William Tapley Bennett Jr.
  • Light
  • Dark
  • Aspect

• After 'Somewhere' came out, people started to recognize me more. Whenever I was walking down the street, they'd be like, 'Oh, wow - are you Elle Fanning?' Before 'Somewhere,' they asked me if I was Dakota Fanning, because we looked alike, and I'd say, 'No, I'm her younger sister.'

  

  Elle Fanning
  • People
  • Walking
  • Sister

• I guess I can be a little mischievous!

  

  Martine Syms