Petra Collins Quotes

Girls are taught to be so afraid to take up any "space," even with their own bodies, and hair is a part of that. I'm glad to not be a part of that!

Petra Collins

• Girl
• Space
• Hair
• Body
• Taught
• Glad

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• I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Good
  • Long
  • Value

• I need instant gratification.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Need
  • Instant
  • Gratification

• If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • High
  • Chance
  • Curiosity

• Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Always
  • Being
  • Apollo

• Life is not easy in politics.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Life
  • Politics
  • Easy

• If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • World
  • Best

• I just feel like if I really believe what Dr. King said, 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,' then I should be compelled to use my God-given platform to effect change.

  

  Nate Parker
  • God
  • Believe
  • Change

• The pageant movie I'm obsessed with is 'Miss Congeniality', hands down! I could quote everything from that movie. I love so many scenes, but I always find myself quoting the scene when Sandra Bullock goes, 'I really do just want world peace!'

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • World
  • Love
  • Movie

• You don't have to worry about what happened last year; you can start fresh.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Worry
  • Start
  • Year

• There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Ugly
  • Engineering
  • Bridges

• I'm always gonna be compared to the greatest cats that's in the game, but I lack a little bit less when I'm not as visible as other guys. So I live with that thought right there - yo, you still gotta work, still got more to do. One thing where I come from you gotta remember is, don't get souped up.

  

  Raekwon
  • Up
  • Work
  • Live

• I honestly think that kids should not exercise: they should keep fit through play. The most important age is zero to seven, both for the kid and the parent - for parents, because this is the time when your kid learns how to walk, talk and other behaviour.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Time
  • Important
  • Kids

• If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Opinion

• I'm not really a femme fatale.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Really
  • Femme Fatale
  • Femme

• By continuing to increase teacher recruitment and training - and ameliorating wages and working conditions - we will be able to shore up the weaknesses of the French education system.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Up
  • Education
  • Training

• 'Everywhere you look it unpacks to infinity. What you look for, you find. And you people can have it. All of it.'The comfortable generosity of this offer puzzled Kearney, so he decided to ignore it. It seemed meaningless anyway.

  

  M. John Harrison
  • People
  • Ignore
  • Generosity

• A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it. But it is unbecoming in an artist to talk about inspiration; that is the reader's business.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Artist
  • Inspiration

• When any body of statesmen make public asservations by one or various voices, that there is no discord among them, not a dissentient voice on any subject, people are apt to suppose that they cannot hang together much longer.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • People
  • Together

• You really have to try hard to create space and, at least for a time, stop the political world from rushing in. The important thing is to remain sane.

  

  George Osborne
  • Time
  • World
  • Important

• I found the hedge-fund guys I met all to be very, very concentrated listeners - watchful and articulate and quick to defend, if needed. They all seemed to have this contained sitting posture. The legs, if they weren't crossed at right angles, tended to be close over the knee, their hands put together.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Together
  • Hands
  • Posture

• The process of being filmed was, I found, peculiar but not discomfiting. At 13, you are malleable, adaptable, better able to take the unusual in your stride.

  

  James Lovegrove

• Teenagers are a great audience and they are fearless about asking what they want to know.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Know
  • Audience
  • Asking

• God has created you and be proud of it. Don't hide from your age. Don't lie about it. Don't be ashamed of it and don't let nobody make you feel ashamed because you're aging in the world. It's a privilege. God has blessed you. Michael Jackson, Prince, Whitney, they'll never know what it's like to be 60. They'll never know that.

  

  Vanessa Bell Calloway
  • World
  • God
  • Age

• Girls are taught to be so afraid to take up any "space," even with their own bodies, and hair is a part of that. I'm glad to not be a part of that!

  

  Petra Collins
  • Girl
  • Space
  • Hair