Dominique McElligott Quotes

I don't like routine and I don't like rules.

Dominique McElligott

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• As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Evil
  • Poverty
  • Worst

• I love listening to Lil' Wayne, Drake, and Eminem to get me fired up!

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Up
  • Love
  • Me

• Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Think
  • Society
  • Black

• I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Me
  • Hurt

• I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Country
  • Love
  • Expectations

• I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Live
  • Family
  • Looking

• When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Done
  • You
  • Rome

• I like power and I like to use it.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Power
  • Like
  • Use

• The mandate we have as Jews is for the story of the Exodus from Egypt to be retold every generation.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • Story
  • Generation
  • Jews

• Before I started surfing, I don't even know if I would have dived into the water at night alone. It was still scary.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Night
  • Alone
  • Water

• Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Great
  • Support
  • Comedy

• I have an incredible phobia of divorce.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Divorce
  • Incredible
  • Phobia

• Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • Years
  • Rich
  • Last

• It's hard enough condensing 500 pages into a movie, and it would have been impossible to condense 800.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Movie
  • Enough
  • Impossible

• When I was teaching Latin in girls' schools before I became a writer, I didn't much like it if parents would come in and say, 'We'll have less of the Ovid and Virgil and more of the grammar, please.' After all, I was the one in charge. That's how I feel about doctors. You should trust them to do their job properly.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Job
  • Parents
  • Trust

• Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks.

  

  Ted Kulongoski
  • Sides
  • Elections
  • Closing

• I'm very bad at ending sentences. A lot times I just want to say, 'That's the end of my sentence. I have nothing more to say.'

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Bad
  • Want
  • End

• An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Missing
  • Form
  • Last

• The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Change
  • Survival
  • Rules

• There are days when I still wake up angry, and no one handles it perfectly all the time, but honestly, I feel lucky to have diabetes because of the people I get to meet. The families, the kids, the parents, the other athletes. If I could pick a club to be in, this would definitely be it.

  

  Charlie Kimball
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

  

  Carson McCullers
  • People
  • Loneliness

• No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Yourself
  • Potential
  • Surgeon

• I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • See
  • Sofa
  • Fireplace

• I don't like routine and I don't like rules.

  

  Dominique McElligott