Jennifer Pahlka Quotes

We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work.

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• It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Up
  • Children
  • Mother

• I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Think
  • Me
  • College

• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Women
  • Children
  • Father

• There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Christmas

• And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Business
  • Create
  • Brand

• I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Country
  • Think
  • Song

• Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Hope
  • Freedom
  • Democracy

• My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Opinions

• Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.

  

  Vic Fuentes
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Thoughts

• I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Together
  • Want
  • Just

• I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Game
  • Play
  • Smile

• We think of stars as celestial beings. And once in a while, they smile at us from the pages of 'People' magazine.

  

  A. E. Hotchner
  • People
  • Smile
  • Stars

• I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Like
  • Never
  • Something

• I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Up
  • Time
  • Positive

• What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Rights
  • Prison
  • Human Rights

• When I think, where did I laugh the most, where did I eat the most, where did I just feel good all the time, I would say making the Bond movie 'Die Another Day.' To be part of such an iconic franchise and to travel to exotic places - that was the most fun I ever had.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Time
  • Good
  • Movie

• People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • People
  • Time
  • Past

• No man has a right to disturb the public peace, by personally resisting the execution of a law however bad. He ought to acquiesce, using at the same time the utmost powers of his reason, to promote its repeal.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Law

• How often have I met and disliked writers whose books I love; and conversely, hated the books and then wound up liking the writer? Too often.

  

  Lev Grossman
  • Up

• When I'm writing obviously I have all the nostalgia in the world, I have all the emotion in the world, but then when I actually perform, I need to just perform it, and that's it. I do retain like a little bit of it because I have to, I sing and perform the songs so I have to - it's a performance of the songs - but I just have to get the right balance.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • World
  • Writing
  • Song

• Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Moment
  • Ideals
  • Cigarette

• Right now is a very interesting time because of the digital cameras, and the fact that you can edit anywhere. It's a great time to be a filmmaker, is a great time to be starting off.

  

  Michael Pitt
  • Interesting
  • Facts
  • Cameras

• We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work.

  

  Jennifer Pahlka
  • Work