Joan Blades Quotes

I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion.

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• There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Pain
  • Gratitude
  • Revenge

• There was a rumor I was walking around at 183 pounds. When I left my room to fight Conor McGregor, I was 179 pounds. That means by the time I walked in the cage, I was probably 175, 174 pounds.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Time
  • Walking
  • Fight

• Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • People
  • Work
  • Help

• I think I've been influenced by everything I've ever heard. The first thing I ever heard was my grandma, who was an opera singer. The first song I ever learned was the 'Nessun Dorma' from Puccini's 'Turandot.' My father was a big band singer, so I used to hear him walking around the house singing standards all the time.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Time
  • Father
  • House

• I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Weakness
  • Haters

• My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Father
  • Positive
  • Human

• Everything that I do to my own hair and makeup I learned from professionals.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Hair
  • Makeup
  • Learned

• One day, I want to make a PG film.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Want
  • Day
  • Film

• I never count calories. Counting calories is stressful and intimidating, so I avoid it! I know that if I'm eating something that's a treat, I don't need to count it because I mostly eat healthy and am conscious of what I'm putting in my body.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Body
  • Healthy
  • Treat

• You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have positive opinion. Just to make sure that you are blending all these opinions in your mind before a decision is made.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • People
  • Mind
  • Decision

• If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Light
  • End
  • Looking

• I had a productive day, without the distraction of conversation.

  

  Kage Baker

• A miss is as good as a mile.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Good

• As she swam she seemed to be reaching out for the unlimited in which to lose herself.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • She

• Pride in their port, defiance in their eye,I see the lords of humankind pass by.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Pride

• Nam veluti pueri trepidant atque omnia caecisin tenebris metuunt, sic nos in luce timemusinterdum, nilo quae sunt metuenda magis quamquae pueri in tenebris pavitant finguntque futura.hunc igitur terrorem animi tenebrasque necessestnon radii solis neque lucida tela dieidiscutiant sed naturae species ratioque.

  

  Lucretius

• I couldn't sing Mama's special songs. I couldn't do them as well. I would rather present a first-rate version of myself than a second-rate version of Mama.

  

  Liza Minnelli
  • Present

• I had the idea to do an anthology about instrument-making.

  

  David Toop
  • Ideas
  • Instruments
  • Anthology

• In the USA, where so many people compete for one and the same thing, where job opportunities, residential facilities, and food resources have to be spread over so many people, the question of justice becomes more imperative than ever before if communal and individual life is to be made possible and enjoyable.

  

  Ndabaningi Sithole
  • Job
  • Justice
  • Opportunities

• If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Respect

• Everything good, everythimg magical happens between the months of June and August.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Happiness
  • Magic
  • Happen

• I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion.

  

  Joan Blades