Jessica Parker Kennedy Quotes

I'm an only child raised by a single mom. She's always been supportive of what I wanted to do.

Jessica Parker Kennedy

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• During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.

  

  Questlove
  • Political
  • Me
  • Wise

• There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Life
  • Dress
  • Symbol

• If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day - at every meal.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Earth
  • Change
  • Day

• After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • People
  • Society
  • Rest

• Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.

  

  Pat Roberts
  • Fan
  • Disaster
  • Agriculture

• All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Skills
  • Producer
  • Using

• Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Awesome
  • Moss

• No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Man
  • See
  • Blind

• People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.

  

  Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • Blood
  • Desert
  • Sand

• I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Myself
  • Chance
  • Retirement

• In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Life
  • Work
  • Thinking

• It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • You
  • Answer
  • Call

• We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • People
  • Challenge
  • Green

• Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Different
  • Sing
  • Breath

• One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.

  

  Taylor Mali
  • Work
  • Important
  • Teach

• I really enjoyed being able to be one of the people who weighed in on the events. As hard as it is to do that every day, because it is exhausting, it really is fun to do that, especially when you feel like you really did something well, and it really hit.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Fun
  • Day

• There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • Society
  • Eye

• My senior thesis was a documentary. By the time I graduated from college, I thought I was going to make films, and my interest in acting was there but kind of confused.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Time
  • College
  • Thought

• I love a good party.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell
  • Good
  • Party

• Yeah, they try to get me to play. Because they want my money.

  

  Antonio McDyess
  • Money
  • Play
  • Get

• My mom married a family friend, and my dad married someone that's eight years older than me, so it was just like, these - like, I literally live a country song, so I had to write one.

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • Live
  • Country
  • Family

• We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She took no suggestions or advice. Halloween costumes were her territory. She was the brain behind my brother's winning girl costume, stuffing her own bra with newspapers for him to wear under a cashmere sweater and smearing red lipstick on his lips.

  

  Ann Hood
  • Family
  • She
  • Mother

• I'm an only child raised by a single mom. She's always been supportive of what I wanted to do.

  

  Jessica Parker Kennedy
  • She
  • Single
  • Mom