Jessica Stockholder Quotes

I make things complicated for myself and chaotic, so I feel unsettled, and then the challenge is to make something structured and complete emerge from that.

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• I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • People
  • Trying
  • Challenge

• Together with international unity and resolve we can meet the challenge of this global scourge and work to bring about an international law of zero tolerance for terrorism.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • Work
  • Together
  • Law

• I firmly believe that the Constitution is the most powerful challenge to illiberal tendencies. If the Constitution is followed in letter and spirit and if the laws are made in the spirit in which Constitution was made, liberties can indeed be protected.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • Believe
  • Powerful
  • Challenge

• The only way we can challenge Islamism is to engage with one another. We need to make it as abhorrent as racism has become today. Only then will we stem the tide of angry young Muslims who turn to hate.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Today
  • Hate
  • Challenge

• If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Character
  • Job
  • Nice

• Like anything else, acting can become boring - a chore, really - if there isn't any challenge. And I like taking challenges. Just when people think they have me figured out, I like to surprise them.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Challenge
  • Challenges

• The biggest challenge is always the governments - they try to stop all good things. I try to stay away from them as much as I can, as I know if someone can destroy something good, it's the government.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Good
  • Stop
  • Government

• I knew a ton of actors and was friends with them, but I never dated actresses. I tried to date 'normal' people because the Hollywood dating rule is 'one star per couple' because it's quite a challenge to match the egos of two actors.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Friends
  • Star

• Filming is quite exciting because every day is different, but it can involve long hours standing around in chilly locations. Theatre is a very different challenge because every night you're striving to keep it fresh, even though you might have been performing the same play for months.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Different
  • Long
  • Night

• If you gonna challenge my ways, know my history. Don't put nobody in my face that don't know about me, or they here to write an article on someone they thought was hot when they was hot. Come on, man. I been hot.

  

  Raekwon
  • History
  • Man
  • Challenge

• I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change people's lives, and I've had lots of wonderful letters about it.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Change
  • Challenge

• In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Long
  • Challenge
  • Place

• Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Life
  • Up
  • Always

• The challenge is sort of capturing the issues that Oregonians feel strongly about and moving forward on those.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Moving
  • Challenge
  • Moving Forward

• I like to challenge myself.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Challenge

• If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Song
  • Inspiration
  • Plumber

• There's so many other things I want to do. I don't want to do them to be different or just for a challenge, but because my heart and soul tell me to.

  

  La India
  • Different
  • Heart
  • Soul

• The traditional practice is that the justices don't ask the attorney general any questions, so as not to embarrass him. But Bobby Kennedy had let them know that he didn't mind if they asked him questions and they did.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Mind
  • Practice
  • Questions

• There is no question in my mind that a 'Brexit' would deal a significant blow to the E.U.'s strength and resilience at exactly the moment when the West is under attack from multiple directions.

  

  David Petraeus
  • Mind
  • Question
  • Blow

• Technology is far more than a method, it is a world in itself. As a method, it is superior in almost every respect. But only where it is left to itself, as in gigantic structures of engineering, there technology reveals its true nature.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • World
  • True
  • Nature

• No more misquoted forms, lost invoices, redundant entries, missing checks, or delays caused by incomplete paperwork.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Checks
  • Forms
  • Paperwork

• I personally have said many times I'd be a hundred percent in equities. That fits my risk profile and my views of the world, though obviously it's not appropriate for everyone. Most investors need a more diversified portfolio.

  

  Laurence D. Fink
  • World
  • Risk

• The Internet is changing the way we think of our relationship with government; it has the potential to bring to life what Abraham Lincoln said about the presidency being an instrument of the people.

  

  Jose Antonio Vargas
  • People
  • Life
  • Relationship

• I make things complicated for myself and chaotic, so I feel unsettled, and then the challenge is to make something structured and complete emerge from that.

  

  Jessica Stockholder
  • Challenge