Megan Rapinoe Quotes
I've always been a risk taker. Growing up, I had a lot of freedom and room to roam and do what I wanted, and I think that's a huge part of my game.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
-
I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
-
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
-
Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?
-
I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.
-
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
-
You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.
-
I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
-
In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
-
We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
-
A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
-
Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
-
Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
-
I think its important to start the day with a proper breakfast.
-
In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.
-
Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
-
I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.
-
Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.
-
Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.
-
In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
-
I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.
-
In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I'd make one a week and finally I'd pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I'm trying to keep it down to one a season.
-
It felt as if my body was, like, literally betraying me because I went from a very athletic, straight-up-and-down little kid to a very curvaceous woman, and it was just horrifying to me.
-
I've always been a risk taker. Growing up, I had a lot of freedom and room to roam and do what I wanted, and I think that's a huge part of my game.
