Mary Elizabeth Lease Quotes

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• One of my favorite things about playing Avery Jennings on 'Dog With a Blog' is that I get to play a real teenager who deals with everyday issues.

  

  G. Hannelius
  • Real
  • Play
  • Dog

• All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• It ain't over till it's over.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Over
  • Till

• Being a mother is probably the most important thing in my life right now.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Important
  • Mother

• I have a vivid, apocalyptic imagination.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Imagination
  • Vivid

• When you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself as the witness of the thought. A new dimension of consciousness has come in.

  

  Eckhart Tolle

• Some terror in the swishing tall grass seemed added to that of the diabolically pounding sea, and I started up crying aloud and disjointedly, 'Tiger? Tiger? Is it Tiger? Beast? Beast? Is it a Beast that I am afraid of?'

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Up
  • Sea
  • Crying

• All policies should be packaged with full awareness of the limitation of human nature (amorality, emotionality and egoism) in both the short- and the long-term.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Long
  • Nature

• Modern mass culture, aimed at the 'consumer', the civilisation of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of his existence, his consciousness of himself as a spiritual being.

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky
  • People
  • Up
  • Culture

• Even in my comedies, I don't take anger as a joke. I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it. One of the things I like about a character: I always think it's fascinating when a character can turn on a dime and go from one emotion to another. I like watching that.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Character
  • Laughter

• Moving to one show each season will significantly help to simplify many aspects of our business. Maintaining two separate, disconnected calendars has been a result of tradition rather than practicality.

  

  Marco Bizzarri
  • Business
  • Help
  • Moving

• No matter what, I'm always interested in making music.

  

  Chris Robinson The Black Crowes
  • Music

• It's more fun to keep stuff secret.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • Fun

• Fundamentalists are crazy. They're the real world equivalent to the evil geniuses of our spy fiction and our superhero comics. They want to mold the world into a specific shape that they really believe in, and if you don't believe in that, if you can't relate to that, it just seems crazy.

  

  Christopher McCulloch
  • World
  • Believe
  • Real

• If you've had a marriage that ended because of a betrayal in trust on your spouse's behalf, the idea of trusting another person with your heart can seem completely ridiculous.

  

  Emily V. Gordon
  • Heart
  • Trust
  • Marriage

• A successful marriage isn't necessarily one that lasts until you're dead.

  

  Ellen Barkin
  • Marriage

• I was in choir in school. I kind of just did it. I already knew I wanted to sing. My music program in my school wasn't really great - people didn't really want to be part of the choir, they didn't want to do the plays and stuff like that. It definitely wasn't the cool thing to do.

  

  Lea Michele
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• There is only one thing I want to do here, and that is play football to the best of my ability. If I let things start distracting me, I'm not going to be able to do that, which will jeopardise the team as well.

  

  Jamie Vardy
  • Team
  • Football

• I wanted to be a dramatic actor. I never realized I was funny until I was 20-something.

  

  Eugenio Derbez
  • Funny
  • Actor
  • Dramatic

• The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.

  

  Sachin Bansal
  • People
  • Small
  • Wonder

• For there is no virtue, the honour and credit for which procures a man more odium from the elite than that of justice; and this, because more than any other, it acquires a man power and authority among the common people. For they only honour the valiant and admire the wise, while in addition they also love just men, and put entire trust and confidence in them.

  

  Plutarch
  • Man
  • Confidence
  • Wise

• He who feels contempt for any living thing hath faculties that he hath never used, and thought with him is in its infancy.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Feels
  • Contempt
  • Faculty

• It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Effect
  • Dramatic
  • Detail

• Bloom where you are planted!

  

  Mary Elizabeth Lease
  • Bloom
  • Planted