Jane Elliot Quotes

Submitting myself for awards feels like a weird kind of horn-blowing that's not comfortable for me. I'm really happy when someone likes my work, but I don't like marketing myself, putting myself on display.

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• I'm not Cinderella.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Cinderella

• I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.

  

  Jack Kilmer
  • Future
  • Down
  • Plan

• Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.

  

  Banks
  • Music
  • Me
  • Walking

• The idea was never for me to be a career bureaucrat or career technocrat; it was more about where I could implement ideas and reform programs.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Career
  • Me
  • Ideas

• National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.

  

  J. F. C. Fuller
  • Always
  • King
  • Fight

• A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Time
  • May
  • Thought

• I feel comfortable any position I play. It doesn't matter.

  

  Oscar Taveras
  • Play
  • Matter
  • Comfortable

• If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.

  

  Jack Keane
  • You
  • Stop
  • Oil

• If you're going to do something that's going to cause offence to people, you're always going to get a reaction.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • You
  • Always

• Inspiration is God making contact with itself.

  

  Ram Dass
  • God
  • Inspiration
  • Contact

• I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Up
  • Great
  • Money

• We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Take
  • Credit
  • Talents

• A woman's health is her capital.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Health
  • Woman
  • Capital

• A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • People
  • Good
  • Writing

• I love food - I am never on a diet - I swear to God!

  

  Irina Shayk
  • God
  • Food
  • Never

• My father worked in the Post Office. A lot of double shifts. All his friends were in the same situation - truck drivers, taxi cab drivers, grocery clerks. Blue collar guys punching the clock and working long, hard hours. The thought that sustained them was the one at the center of the American dream.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Long
  • Friends
  • American

• In international relations, in foreign policy, a great deal has to do with historical circumstances, a great deal has to do with the sense and perception of people.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • People
  • Great
  • Perception

• To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Good
  • Night
  • Light

• My natural response to a stressful situation is to shut down. I do weird things, like, I don't cry, I get really cold.

  

  Amy Adams
  • Weird
  • Cold

• I have been a big guy all my life, I am not going to lose a bunch of weight, because then you're like that weird fat person that got skinny but still has a big head. I don't want to do that. So I'm just trying.

  

  Billy Gardell
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Guy

• For it is the same whether you take it that the Earth is in motion or the Sky. For, in both the cases, it does not affect the Astronomical Science. It is just for the Physicist to see if it is possible to refute it.

  

  Abu Rayhan al-Biruni
  • Motion
  • Physicist
  • Refute

• I've always felt lucky because my parents included my sister and I in their cultural life.

  

  Clemence Poesy
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Sister

• I try to not listen to all the girls I admire musically - like Nina Simone - just so I don't find myself imitating them, even if it's subconsciously.

  

  Lou Doillon

• Submitting myself for awards feels like a weird kind of horn-blowing that's not comfortable for me. I'm really happy when someone likes my work, but I don't like marketing myself, putting myself on display.

  

  Jane Elliot
  • Weird
  • Feels
  • Awards