Jennifer Donnelly Quotes

Little by little, the old world crumbled, and not once did the king imagine that some of the pieces might fall on him.

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• We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Health
  • Quality
  • Best

• I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Doing

• It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Political
  • Baseball

• We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Dark

• My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Mind
  • Children
  • Today

• I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • Want
  • Know
  • Me

• I've been in a room in Silicon Valley where on the wall they have 160 industries they think blockchain can disrupt. We picked six of them to focus on.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Think
  • Focus
  • Wall

• No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Law
  • Person
  • Above

• When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • People
  • Decision
  • Back

• With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Action
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Want
  • Child

• Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • World
  • May
  • Fear

• I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.

  

  Maluma
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Talent

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

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • May
  • Style
  • Failure

• The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Athlete
  • Race
  • Seen

• Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Police
  • Planning

• I was chosen for 'Wolverine' because there weren't any other Japanese actresses available who could speak English. With 'Batman v Superman' and 'Hannibal,' I got the roles as a result of previous work I'd done, not just because of my nationality.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Work
  • Done
  • English

• No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Done
  • Truth
  • Know

• Life is not fair. And you have to choose your battles, because there are some that you cannot win. If you're passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Life
  • Up
  • Running

• News is the most — the most human thing there is, reflecting the changing picture of our daily lives and the world around us. Fleeting, of course, but essential. A free press is the most vital and important element in a democracy. Why, you can always tell when democracy is threatened because attempts are made to stifle free expression and keep people from knowing what is going on and forming their own judgments.” She added thoughtfully, “It is terrible to see news distorted and falsified for private ends or personal gain or to engender hatred or serve totalitarian purposes as has happened abroad and is happening here every day.

  

  Emilie Loring
  • Free
  • Democracy
  • Press

• You can't build a society without law.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Society
  • You
  • Law

• If historical experience could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

  

  Ludwig von Mises
  • Experience

• There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.

  

  Orlando Brown
  • World
  • Music
  • Animals

• Little by little, the old world crumbled, and not once did the king imagine that some of the pieces might fall on him.

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • World
  • Imagine
  • Pieces