Mary-Kate Olsen Quotes

I look at old photos of me, and I don't feel connected to them at all. I would never wish my upbringing on anyone... but I wouldn't take it back for the world.

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• I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Trying
  • Poetry
  • Difficult

• A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Stand For
  • Fall For

• A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • World
  • Japanese

• The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.

  

  Walter F. Ulmer
  • Important
  • Job
  • Purpose

• I've been disappointed by so many movie stars that I've seen, and they go out and they don't do it up, you know. And they don't - I just get so disappointed.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Up
  • Movie
  • You

• People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • World
  • Education

• The Department of Justice will continue to pursue those that travel to fight against the United States and our allies, as well as those individuals that recruit others on behalf of ISIL in the homeland.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Justice
  • Travel
  • Fight

• The crown of literature is poetry.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Poetry
  • Literature
  • Crown

• I've always tried to stay behind the scenes, and I intend to keep it that way.

  

  Carl Forti
  • Way
  • Always
  • Behind

• The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Man
  • Chance
  • Luck

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Meaningful

• I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Why
  • You
  • Own

• I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • American
  • Age

• French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Men
  • Real
  • Bad

• Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Job
  • Director
  • Elements

• But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Life
  • God
  • Death

• I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Bad
  • Lose
  • Election

• Once you have a clear picture of your priorities - that is values, goals, and high leverage activities - organize around them.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Wisdom
  • Positive
  • Goal

• I don't love cinematography that's very flashy because I find that it keeps the audience from becoming a part of the film; it becomes sort of self-reflective.

  

  Rachel Morrison
  • Film
  • Audience
  • Find

• Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Spot
  • Memoirs
  • Scythe Of Time

• I remember being like, 12 years old, and this was in the days before cell phones, or at least, having a cell phone. Some girls, I can't even remember who they said they were, called and said they had a crush on me. But it turned out to be a prank, and I thought that was just straight up nasty, you know what I'm saying? You're just sort of developing. You're insecure, your bones are growing... you have trouble sleeping. And all of a sudden, someone's pranking you on top of that? It's tough growing up.

  

  Chris Baio
  • Remember
  • Girl
  • Sleep

• I look at old photos of me, and I don't feel connected to them at all. I would never wish my upbringing on anyone... but I wouldn't take it back for the world.

  

  Mary-Kate Olsen
  • World
  • Wish