Jessica Lynch Quotes

I'm not about to take credit for something I didn't do.

Jessica Lynch

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• I don't have lavish taste.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Taste
  • Lavish

• As digital communications have multiplied, and NSA capabilities with them, the agency has shifted resources from surveillance of individual targets to the acquisition of communications on a planetary scale.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Resources
  • Digital

• Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.

  

  Ma Long
  • Work
  • Step
  • Hard Work

• My mom and grandmother were actresses, and I knew I was going to do this since I was super young. I would put on shows at my grandparents' house and sing 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' in the living room. I was in drama club and chorus, and I knew every word to 'Grease.'

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • House
  • Mom
  • Drama

• For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Love
  • Creatures
  • Bearable

• Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Never
  • Opportunities
  • Own

• I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Funny
  • Find
  • Determined

• I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• A questioner asks: If human nature is evil, then where do ritual and rightness come from? I reply: ritual and rightness are always created by the conscious activity of the sages.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Nature
  • Evil

• Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,-Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Door

• 'We're on the verge of civil war in Northern Ireland. Why? Because if you take away the forums of democracy you don't have anything left.'

  

  Ian Paisley
  • Why
  • War
  • Democracy

• In a constantly revolving circle every point is simultaneously a point of departure and a point of return. If we interrupt the rotation, not every point of departure is a point of return.

  

  Karl Marx

• A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Know
  • See

• She certainly gave me what I've been losing. Youth's intensity, its craving, the soul-priapism, huge lust and fierce to her, clamour for her to realize with me that mightiest marriage-dream, that Sacrament of Satan that may be consummated only beneath Night's dome, in utmost silence, because its Elements are not symbols of things, but They themselves.

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • May
  • She
  • Soul

• 'Freebird' is an anthem, and 'Simple Man' is a very nice song.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Song
  • Nice
  • Simple

• I guess secrets are part of the fabric of everybody's lives. I mean everybody's lives, and guilt is part of the fabric of everybody's lives.

  

  Emily Mortimer

• I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Animal

• I wish there would be more movies about scientists.

  

  James D. Watson
  • Wish

• One of my goals here in Congress, being the youngest member of the California delegation, is to really try and get the institution to upgrade the way it communicates with its constituents.

  

  Eric Swalwell
  • Goals
  • California

• I started once a week in North Carolina at a pub called Charlie Goodnight and met a lot of comics there. Then I moved to L.A., and if you're not known, it's hard to get stage time. So you start out doing what they call 'bringers' - you have to bring five people if you wanna get on stage. It was a lot of hustle, a learning curve.

  

  Retta
  • Learning
  • Doing
  • Goodnight

• Corporations are the new dictators.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • New
  • Corporations
  • Dictators

• I used to start at about 10 at night and work until early morning. My preferred way to work is to start in the early afternoon and work until about 3, go do errands, have dinner, and then write for a few more hours in the evening.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • Work
  • Night
  • Morning

• I don't know how, at an age when you're trying to put your identity together, how you cope with the pressure of a performance space, which is what social media is.

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • Trying
  • Together
  • Age

• I'm not about to take credit for something I didn't do.

  

  Jessica Lynch