Johann Lamont Quotes

I spent ridiculous amounts of time as an activist and volunteer and was a teacher for 20 years.

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• We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • God
  • High
  • Dark

• My daughter is my passion and my life.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Life
  • Passion
  • Daughter

• I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Think
  • Idea
  • Text

• All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Risk
  • Feel
  • Audience

• It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Love
  • Christian
  • Difference

• Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Responsibility
  • Abuse
  • Top

• There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Up
  • Parent
  • Coffee

• I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.

  

  Iman
  • Father
  • Science
  • Political

• But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • People
  • Want
  • Question

• Life is like an analogy.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Life
  • Like
  • Analogy

• Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Country
  • Power

• The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Fashion

• I'm just collecting gold presents, which is more fun, actually, than buying gold.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Fun
  • Gold
  • Collecting

• I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Good
  • Best
  • New York

• The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?

  

  Ira Glass
  • Think
  • Speak
  • Math

• Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Power
  • Attention
  • Influence

• The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • People
  • Energy
  • Die

• I have no new voices - they've all been used.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • New
  • Used
  • Voices

• Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree-and there will be one.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • God
  • May
  • Tree

• It's so hard in the NFL, man. You spend the course of a long week preparing for one opportunity. And once you get that opportunity and you get in that moment, it's just an amazing feeling. It's something you should celebrate about, something you should be excited about.

  

  Antonio Brown
  • Long
  • Feeling
  • Opportunity

• I have been extraordinarily fortunate in my life, luckier than almost anybody on this planet. And whenever I ran into challenges, my parents did everything they could so that I could maximize my own potential.

  

  Joe Kennedy III
  • Life
  • Parents

• In 2013, when Google announced that Kansas City would be the first city in the country to have Google Fiber, I bought a house in the first neighborhood that was being wired up with Google's gigabit Internet.

  

  Brad Feld
  • Up
  • Country
  • House

• In order to keep my creativity alive, I just try to enjoy life to the fullest.

  

  G-Dragon
  • Life
  • Creativity

• I spent ridiculous amounts of time as an activist and volunteer and was a teacher for 20 years.

  

  Johann Lamont
  • Time
  • Teacher
  • Volunteer