Joey King Quotes

My older sisters were in acting, and of course, I wanted to be just like them!

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• I join with Governor Rick Snyder and thousands of grassroots supporters and activists from across the state of Michigan in asking you all to please help me in supporting Pete Hoekstra, who I am proud to endorse. He will be our next United States senator.

  

  Candice S. Miller
  • United States
  • Senator
  • Supporters

• It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Up
  • Time
  • Government

• How can a child adhere to school and the notion of secularism when they see their mother rejected from a school outing, stigmatized, left on the sidelines, just because she has a scarf on her head?

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • School
  • She
  • Mother

• When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Funny
  • Air

• Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Money

• People should not judge me on what they hear. Let them wait and see me in action. Then they will see how I serve my people.

  

  Salva Kiir Mayardit
  • People
  • Action
  • Me

• I don't mean to be funny.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Funny
  • Mean

• Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Differences
  • Celebrate

• I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence. Then I had a chapter. The next thing I knew I was turning acting down.

  

  Tana French
  • Done
  • Book
  • Thought

• 'You’ve behaved very highhandedly, Captain Mallory. Is that the custom out here?''The custom is, sir, that those who know a situation handle it and those who don’t watch and learn, or get out of the way.'

  

  C. J. Cherryh

• You fight dandelions all week-end, and late Monday afternoon there they are, pert as all get out, in full and gorgeous bloom, pretty as can be, thriving as only dandelions can in the face of adversity.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Pretty
  • Adversity
  • Monday

• I started this book to forgive my parents and ended it by becoming a parent. Understanding backward liberated me to live forward.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Live
  • Book
  • Parents

• If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

  

  Jim Carrey
  • Pain
  • Regret

• Our book is Genesis. Their book is Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, the original environmental hoax.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Book
  • Spring

• The noble lord in this case, as in so many others, first destroys his opponent, and then destroys his own position afterwards. The noble lord is the Prince Rupert of parliamentary discussion: his charge is resistless, but when he returns from the pursuit he always finds his camp in the possession of the enemy.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Enemy
  • Prince

• I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a great way to really get at the root of their identity, because it's such a personal thing.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Great
  • Character
  • Identity

• I'm singing these songs to inspire you, to keep you going, to lift you up and give you a reason to get up in the morning.

  

  Mavis Staples
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Singing

• I've just done a film in the United States. It's a thriller called 'A Crime', with Harvey Keitel, we play against each other, and it's so great to play in another language. But I'm definitely not American.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Great
  • Done
  • American

• Das Empörende an einer individuellen Lebensart. - Alle sehr individuellen Maassregeln des Lebens bringen die Menschen gegen Den, der sie ergreift, auf; sie fühlen sich durch die aussergewöhnliche Behandlung, welche jener sich angedeihen lässt, erniedrigt, als gewöhnliche Wesen.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Die

• People say that the paintings are always big because they're striving for effect, but they're also big so that I don't trip over myself, so that I have room to work, and people can come in and be comfortable.

  

  Frank Stella
  • People
  • Work

• If you want to change your life, you must change your mind and change your brain? on purpose.

  

  Bill Crawford
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Change

• If the game of life ended tonight, would you be a winner?

  

  Bobby Richardson
  • Winner
  • Game Of Life

• My older sisters were in acting, and of course, I wanted to be just like them!

  

  Joey King