Jodi Picoult Quotes

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

Jodi Picoult

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• If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.

  

  Kajol
  • Character
  • Society
  • Cinema

• I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Kids
  • Band
  • Cool

• I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Hate
  • Doing
  • Just

• One of the things I love about acting is that I can enter into these other people's lives. But going back to being me at the end of the day is very important, too. That process of remembering who I am.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Things
  • Acting

• I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • God
  • Nature
  • Environment

• We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Why
  • Know
  • Day

• There was no Groundlings or Upright Citizens Brigade where I was from. Looking back on it, I was trying to do sketch comedy in my stand-up, which is still kind of what I am doing now. To go full-circle here, it's kind of like one-man sketch.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Comedy
  • Film
  • Looking Back

• I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Want
  • Audience
  • Meaning

• There are many successful startup funders who are looking for ways to make a difference in the world.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • World
  • Successful
  • Looking

• Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Country
  • Best
  • Like

• I'll always be tough on myself.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Myself
  • Always
  • Tough

• I feel like comedy is important, and I think political satire can be really important.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Important
  • Think
  • Political

• When Landon Carter, a Virginia plantation owner, read the Declaration of Independence two days after it was issued, he wondered whether its ringing affirmation of equality meant that slaves must be freed. If so, he confided to his diary, 'You must send them out of the country, or they must steal for their support.'

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Country
  • Support
  • Equality

• My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Law
  • Husband
  • Wall

• There's 2 million Palestinians that govern themselves. They have their own parliament, their own government, their own elections, their own tax system. I don't want to govern the Palestinians; no one does. They already govern themselves.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Want
  • Government
  • Tax

• But I would say if the Security Council is only relevant if it agrees with the United States, then we have come a long way in a direction that I do not like very much.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Long
  • Security
  • Direction

• I go on walks during lunch breaks and travel with a fold-up yoga mat. I also love reading by candlelight at night.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Love
  • Night

• Puerto Rico is a powerful island.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Powerful
  • Island
  • Puerto

• It is impossible to divide the past into distinct, clearly defined periods and prove that one age ended and another began in a particular year, such as 476, or 1453, or 1789. Men do not and cannot change their habits and ways of doing things all at once, no matter what happens.

  

  James Harvey Robinson
  • Men
  • Age
  • Past

• My dad was very religious growing up and a little bit closed minded, and I think me being in the theater, two of my three sisters are dancers, so being in the arts world has changed and opened him up in a lot of ways.

  

  Frankie J. Alvarez
  • Up
  • World
  • Growing

• America won the Cold War by protecting our strategic resources from the threat of foreign control. We must bring the same attitude to our trade relationship with China.

  

  Jo Ann Emerson
  • America
  • War
  • Control

• Negativity drove me out of politics in the mid-Nineties.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • Negativity

• I like visiting people's homes on Saint Joseph's Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint, and invite the public - I enjoy that much more than Mardi Gras.

  

  Poppy Z. Brite
  • People
  • Up
  • Food

• Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

  

  Jodi Picoult