George F. Kennan Quotes

I have never been any good at training children or dogs; that is why I am no good at training myself.

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• President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Together
  • Principles

• I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Heart
  • Think

• I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Job
  • Write
  • Ever

• The director had come to Madrid to court me.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Director
  • Come
  • Court

• The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • People
  • Men
  • Dinner

• There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Funny
  • Awards
  • Host

• The devil made me do it.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Me
  • Made
  • Devil

• I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Up
  • Live
  • Interesting

• I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • House
  • Loved
  • Living

• Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Good
  • Great
  • Not Good Enough

• The end of my playing career was May 28, 2017. That, for me, was an historic day. I'll carry it with me forever. It will be hard to explain to people the feelings and emotions I felt that day.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • People
  • May
  • Career

• I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.

  

  Rahul Kohli
  • Father
  • Me
  • Kind

• Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Hope
  • You
  • Human

• When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Black
  • Know
  • Literature

• Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • People
  • Bad
  • Day

• When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Song

• Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Style

• Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Paris

• That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Real
  • Why
  • Night

• I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.

  

  Benedict Cumberbatch
  • Giving
  • Education
  • Trust

• Up until the last minute, it was art and drawing for me. That was the first real and natural thing I thought I was good at and loved to do. But I developed a similar kind of love for music.

  

  James Bay
  • Up
  • Good
  • Music

• I have a little boy, and I wanted to spend a lot of time with him.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Time
  • Boy
  • Him

• He was broken from the start. And this stupid world took what was left of him and ground it into sand.

  

  Ed Brubaker
  • Stupid
  • Start
  • Sand

• I have never been any good at training children or dogs; that is why I am no good at training myself.

  

  George F. Kennan
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