Pearl Bailey Quotes

We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.

Pearl Bailey

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• I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Couple
  • Said
  • Pilots

• We're seeing a crazy appetite for people to acquire and invest in British businesses.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Invest

• Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Up
  • Play

• I'm interested in ways that digital interfaces can be utilized as powerful narrative devices, and to engage people in new and exciting ways.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Digital

• You measure a government by how few people need help.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • People
  • Help
  • Government

• I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Knows
  • Roles
  • Historical

• Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Stupid
  • Celebrity
  • Become

• Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Two

• Anything you want to know, you go to Quora and get it. And at the same time, give people a platform that is easy to use for sharing the knowledge.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Time
  • Knowledge

• The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the world, we have to get to know ourselves better.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • World
  • Moral
  • Self

• We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, not to take away rights from decent, loyal Americans. This great Constitution of ours should never be used to make a group of Americans permanent second-class citizens.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Great
  • Know
  • Perfect

• I did kindergarten twice because I was so shy.

  

  Zendaya
  • Because
  • Shy
  • Twice

• If a big number of young pupils felt secularism was an attack on them, it was because the term had been misused and deformed in the public debate for years by the extreme-right and the right as an attack on Islam. The term had often been misused to point out how Muslims were different to others, and that is clearly problematic.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Different
  • Young
  • Islam

• When I finally held the trophy, it was just how I imagined it would be.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Just
  • Would
  • Trophy

• There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.

  

  Vash Young
  • Thoughts
  • Jump
  • River

• You got these $10,000-a-plate dinners and Golden Circles Clubs. I think when the average voter looks at that, they rightly feel they're locked out of the process. They can't attend a $10,000 breakfast and they know that those who can are going to get the kind of access they can't imagine.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Breakfast

• Chaos, rudis indigestaque moles.

  

  Ovid
  • Chaos

• I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Freedom
  • Responsibility
  • Hero

• I think that fanaticism is terrific. As long as you don't have to live with it. Oh, yes, nobody should marry a writer.

  

  Cynthia Ozick
  • Long
  • Live

• Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don't talk about what democracy means - what it bestows on us - the revolutionary idea that it isn't just about the means of governance but the means of dignifying people so they become fully free to claim their moral and political agency.

  

  Bill Moyers
  • People
  • Free
  • Political

• The moon, our own, earthly moon is bitterly lonely, because it is alone in the sky, always alone, and there is no one to turn to, no one to turn to it. All it can do is ache across the weightless airy ice, across thousands of versts, toward those who are equally lonely on earth, and listen to the endless howling of dogs. (“A Story About The Most Important Thing”)

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Moon
  • Lonely
  • Bitterly

• Small businesses already struggle to compete with big businesses that enjoy the luxury of a tax code filled with corporate loopholes.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • Small
  • Struggle

• People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • People
  • Political
  • Religious

• We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.

  

  Pearl Bailey