Joe Penny Quotes

I'm not changing because I'm part of a hit. People around me have changed in their attitude toward me, but I haven't changed. And I won't.

Joe Penny

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• It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and indissoluble bonds. When we clearly recognize this reality and ground ourselves in it, we are compelled to take a strict accounting of our way of life.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Real
  • Reality

• In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Want
  • Church
  • Religion

• I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Silence

• Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Character

• It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Science
  • Education
  • Technology

• There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Choices
  • Nothing
  • Unlimited

• We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.

  

  T-Pain
  • Learn
  • Surroundings
  • Adjust

• The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • World
  • May
  • Political

• I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Girl
  • Sexy
  • Train

• It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Generation

• What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • God
  • Done
  • Me

• I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.

  

  B. B. King
  • Different
  • Love
  • Like

• I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Serious
  • Feel
  • Mad

• The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Career
  • Flower

• He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Impossible
  • Decisions

• I think every business, really, has a unique reason for being, unique assets, unique attributes, a unique history. And that can be turned into a very attractive design story, essentially, that consumers can relate to.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Business
  • History
  • Design

• I remember in 'Pride and Prejudice' I had to do a scene where I broke down. And before we filmed I spent like three hours imagining my mum's funeral. Actually, she's very much alive, happy and healthy. It was really horrible.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Remember
  • Happy
  • Pride

• I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.

  

  Sami Gayle
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Silent

• My intention throughout has been to write, to create literature, and to be able to look people in the eye after I'd done it - the people I'd written about.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • People
  • Done
  • Eye

• I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Writing
  • Deep
  • Story

• Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.

  

  Philip Guedalla
  • Success

• The perception in Silicon Valley is that if you dress well, you couldn't possibly be smart, or you're in P.R. but couldn't possibly run a company. I remember briefly attempting the Adidas and jeans and sweatshirt over T-shirt look, but I realized I was trying to dress like a young tech geek, and that just wasn't me.

  

  Leila Janah
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Smart

• Maps had never really been his thing, even during his days under Scorpio in Chasm City. There, it had hardly mattered. Blood’s motto had always been that if you needed a map to find your way around a neighbourhood, you were already in trouble.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • City

• I'm not changing because I'm part of a hit. People around me have changed in their attitude toward me, but I haven't changed. And I won't.

  

  Joe Penny
  • People
  • Attitude