Dorothy Denning Quotes

Generally I'm against regulation.

Dorothy Denning

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• I always knew I had a voice and I've always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. I think it's the hardest thing to do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realized it's what I'm most talented at and what I love to do the most.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • People
  • Always
  • Voice

• I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Great
  • Depression
  • Obsessed

• Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Path
  • Choose
  • Privilege

• SAP is a great company, but they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete in databases.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Work
  • Great
  • Want

• I write music every day.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Day
  • Everyday

• Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Success
  • Struggle
  • Courage

• I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Live
  • Done
  • Know

• The only routine with me is no routine at all.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Me
  • Only
  • Routine

• A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Men
  • Death
  • Strong

• I'm not picky, quite honestly.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Honestly
  • Quite
  • Picky

• Post 9/11, brown people had this force pushing us together. It's like we're all being looked at with fear and suspicion; we're all being targeted, so how do you support yourself and your communities?

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • People
  • Together
  • Fear

• I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.

  

  Damian Marley
  • School
  • High
  • Cat

• After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Soul
  • Past
  • Die

• You spend five months filming in outer space and saving the world, and suddenly that kind of family unit and story disappears, and you come crashing back down to Earth, and you have to do your own washing... and most actors are insecure that the last job they did will be their last job ever.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • World
  • Family
  • Job

• People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Live
  • Leave
  • Him

• Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • World
  • Remember

• We were given drinks, and drank them, and talked while we drank them. But talked, here, is a euphemism: we had that conversation about how you make a Martini. The people in Hell, Dr. Rosenbaum had told me once, say nothing but What? Americans in Hell tell each other how to make Martinis.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • People

• Spells are words, and words are merely noises. You are the sorceress, not your instruction. Don’t limit yourself.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Words

• In seminary he had been taught that God had completely stopped any overt communication with moderns, preferring to have them only listen to and follow sacred Scripture, properly interpreted, of course. God's voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellects. It seemed that direct communication with God was something exclusively for the ancients and uncivilized, while educated Westerner's access to God was mediated and controlled by the intelligentsia. Nobody wanted God in a box, just in a book.

  

  William P. Young
  • Book
  • Authority
  • Scripture

• For some reason if we hear 100 praises and one criticism, we focus on that one hurtful thing.

  

  Tara Leigh Patrick
  • Focus
  • Criticism

• My trainer taught me, because he's Iranian, and that's a beautiful snack pistachios. I have some with me, actually, in my bag. You could eat that on a plane instead of the salted nuts. And a serving size a day is the size of your hand, not the size of your head!

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Beautiful
  • Trainers

• And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep-And good-by to the bar and its moaning.

  

  Charles Kingsley
  • Good
  • Sleep

• Generally I'm against regulation.

  

  Dorothy Denning