Philippa Gregory Quotes

Being a stepmother has worked out very well for me. I love my stepchildren very much.

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• Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Me
  • Collection

• I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Community
  • Stop
  • Thought

• Well, I guess most people would only know me from The O.C. I did a few episodes of Gilmore Girls before that. I was also a client on a lot of lawyer shows.

  

  Adam Brody
  • People
  • Me
  • Lawyer

• I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Book
  • Experiences
  • Sell

• You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Life
  • Know
  • Parent

• It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Evil
  • Explain
  • Abhorrent

• 'Scott Pilgrim' is something that was a little bit more difficult to put in one box. But, to me, that's not necessarily a bad thing about the movie.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Difficult

• Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Matter
  • Interest
  • Opinions

• Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Power
  • See
  • Leader

• The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Progress

• Ali was a guy that had a lot of discipline. If you hung around him, you'd be able to get some of that discipline that he had. And I learned from that. He was a sweet man.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Sweet

• What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Up
  • Team
  • Same

• I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Time
  • Long
  • War

• I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

  

  Mae West
  • Believe
  • Fortune
  • Censorship

• We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Self

• Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Imagination
  • Aesthetic

• Every moment there is creation, every moment destruction. There is no absolute creation, no absolute destruction. Both are movement, and that is eternal.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Moment
  • Creation
  • Movement

• The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality.

  

  Tarja Halonen
  • Strong
  • Freedom
  • Justice

• Ash Turner seduced her with the promise of her own self.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Promise
  • Seduced
  • Own Self

• The madness is running wild!

  

  Randy Savage
  • Running
  • Madness
  • WIld

• Certain categories of us are more crucial to our identities than the kind of car we drive or the number of dots we can guess on a slide—gender, sexuality, religion, politics, ethnicity, and nationality, for starters. Without feeling attached to groups that give our lives meaning, identity, and purpose, we would suffer the intolerable sensation that we were loose marbles floating in a random universe. Therefore, we will do what it takes to preserve these attachments. Evolutionary psychologists argue that ethnocentrism—the belief that our own culture, nation, or religion is superior to all others—aids survival by strengthening our bonds to our primary social groups and thus increasing our willingness to work, fight, and occasionally die for them. When things are going well, people feel pretty tolerant of other cultures and religions—they even feel pretty tolerant of the other sex!—but when they are angry, anxious, or threatened, the default position is to activate their blind spots.

  

  Carol Tavris
  • Culture
  • Belief
  • Survival

• Being a stepmother has worked out very well for me. I love my stepchildren very much.

  

  Philippa Gregory