Jena Malone Quotes

I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class.

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• Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.

  

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• I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.

  

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• My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.

  

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• Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.

  

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• Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.

  

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• Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.

  

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• One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
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• Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
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• We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.

  

  Quavo Migos
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• People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.

  

  Sam Hunt
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• I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.

  

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• I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.

  

  Larry Brown
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• When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
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• I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
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• I generally have a brand of brief on every day.

  

  Gary Lineker
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• There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.

  

  Pam Bondi
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• Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and everything. I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal. Therefore, I felt no boundaries.

  

  Isaac Hayes
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• For me, the exhausting thing about touring is the sitting around, which is why working on my concert music is really great - and also seeing concerts and seeing friends and, whenever possible, getting out to see a museum.

  

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• I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics.

  

  Chris Patten

• We set ourselves a limit and cut characters which weren't so vital.

  

  Dino De Laurentiis

• Later orthodox theologians would have found this view completely inadequate. In stressing that the Father was “greater” than the Son, Tertullian articulated a view that would later be deemed a heresy. Theology, in these early years of the formation of Christian doctrine, could not stand still. It progressed and got more complicated, sophisticated, and refined as time went on.

  

  Bart Ehrman
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• At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Children
  • Small
  • Moment

• I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class.

  

  Jena Malone
  • Great
  • Children