Phoebe Tonkin Quotes

In wintertime I like to wear flannel button down pyjamas, and in summer I prefer to wear, well... nothing.

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• Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Value

• There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Christmas

• Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Dark

• If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Great
  • Career
  • Me

• The Fed has become an accomplice in the support of totalitarian regimes throughout the world.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • World
  • Support
  • Totalitarian

• When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Purpose
  • Mad
  • Lawyer

• People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Lost
  • Successful
  • Trials

• On privacy issues, it's just like hundreds of years ago when people said, 'I would rather put my money under my pillow than in a bank.' But today, banks know how to protect money much better than you do. Today, we may not have the answers to privacy issues, but I believe our young people will come up with the solutions.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • End
  • Aim
  • Noble

• I am lucky enough to be married to a personal trainer. He's able to whip me into shape pretty quickly.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Married
  • Personal
  • Shape

• It was a wonderful experience to play in the NFL, and I have no regrets. I truly will miss playing for the Lions. I consider the Lions' players, coaches, staff, management and fans my family. I leave on good terms with everyone in the organization.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Good
  • Family
  • Experience

• I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Around
  • Lived
  • Corner

• I get plenty of, 'Is that song about me?' from men but I just tell them to get over themselves.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Men
  • Song
  • Me

• A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Good
  • You
  • Conversation

• I was like, 'I don't know if I could be an Olympian...' But my dad really influenced me to stay and be in the Olympics.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Know
  • Me
  • Dad

• That's why teenagers fascinate me – they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.

  

  Nancy Jo Sales
  • Children
  • Teenagers
  • Impulses

• I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Up
  • She
  • Bad

• I've met Bob Dylan. We did one of those non-handshake handshakes. I was with all guys, and he shook hands with all of them, and then they said, 'And this is Kate,' and I put my hand out, and he didn't put his out. And then I took my hand away, and he put his out. It was one of those. We finally did shake. And then I fainted!

  

  Kate Moss
  • Hand
  • Hands
  • Said

• For most of American history, of course, the important religious divides were between denominations - not just between Protestants and Catholics and Jews but between Lutherans and Episcopalians and Southern Baptists and the other endlessly fine-tuned sects.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Important
  • American
  • History

• I'm just used to working harder than everybody and other people taking the credit.

  

  Jason Boyd
  • People

• So if you find out how you prevent yourself from growing, from using your potential, you have away of increasing this, making life richer, making you more and more capable of mobilizing yourself. And our potential is based upon a very peculiar attitude: to live and review every fresh second.

  

  Fritz Perls
  • Life
  • Live
  • Growing

• I was ten years old when my first 'Vogue' cover sang me its siren call and dashed me against the treacherous rocks of fashion obsession.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Fashion
  • Against
  • Obsession

• In wintertime I like to wear flannel button down pyjamas, and in summer I prefer to wear, well... nothing.

  

  Phoebe Tonkin
  • Summer