Jennifer Beals Quotes

By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore the person.

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• The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Reform
  • Finance
  • Biggest

• I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.

  

  Warren Kole
  • Up
  • Problem
  • Proud

• Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Trying

• You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Free
  • Win
  • Season

• With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Always
  • Afraid
  • Exceptions

• I lived in New York for seven years, although I was always in denial about it. Even though I had an apartment there, I always pretended I was just visiting. I do love New York. But I'm a Londoner at heart.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Heart
  • Always
  • Denial

• My favorite toy as a kid was Legos. I loved building things, and that's what we're doing with SumZero.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Doing
  • Loved
  • Building

• If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • May
  • Style
  • Failure

• Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Up
  • Education

• I demand a lot from myself and reflect this attitude upon others: I consider it to be an important quality for a leader. I also think it is impossible to achieve success without persistence.

  

  Yelena Baturina
  • Important
  • Success
  • Quality

• I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the worst drivel.'

  

  Pat Conroy
  • God
  • School
  • Me

• I realise I might pass down an incurable illness to my son, but living based on what might go wrong seems like less and less of a life as I get older. The one thing I can try to control is whether I teach my child to be ruled by anxiety, by fear. That's something that gets passed down, too.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Control

• I'm all about high-waisted pants and skirts, pencil skirts, and sheer, long-sleeves in the summer.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Long
  • High
  • Summer

• When you like something, you find time to do it.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Time
  • You
  • Find

• I get so disenfranchised reading the news, because global borders and lines we've created are completely unnecessary. That's just another person on the other side, and it's his bad luck that he was born there and it's my good fortune that I was born here. It's all kind of illogical.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Reading

• Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Change
  • Literature
  • Ethical

• Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Society
  • Reciprocal

• What makes the spectacle of Western bourgeois society so repulsive is the waste and squander of resources on needless products of status or display (e.g., the large, heavy automobile; the extravagant packaging of consumer items) for the sake of consumption.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Society

• At Participant, I am the board. I am the sole greenlight at the company. If something happened to me, that would be a problem.

  

  Jeffrey Skoll

• In most writers, style is a welcome, an invitation, a letting down of the drawbridge between the artist and the world. Shaw had no time for such ruses. Unlike most of his countrymen, he abominated charm, which he regarded as evidence of chronic temperamental weakness.

  

  Kenneth Tynan
  • Time
  • World
  • Style

• The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Person
  • Acts
  • Tailor

• Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny ... and everything in between. But he was one of a kind.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Doctors
  • Robins
  • Nannies

• When I was 11 years old, I thought, 'All I really wanna be able to do is my own comic book,' and I'm doing it. I don't have any other real ambitions. I have nothing to conquer at all.

  

  Chris Ware
  • Real
  • Book

• By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore the person.

  

  Jennifer Beals