Petra Nemcova Quotes

It's usually when the cameras leave that the support leaves as well.

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• I sang a lot in college - I was in a choral group in college. But, then, when I moved to New York, I really just concentrated on acting.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • College
  • Acting
  • New York

• You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Great
  • Live
  • Age

• But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Time
  • Intelligence
  • Others

• Home is most important in the long run.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Important
  • Long
  • Home

• I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • Long
  • Success
  • Kind

• Have I seen The Commitments? I was obsessed with that movie. I just watched it again about two weeks ago.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Movie
  • Two
  • Just

• Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Time
  • Work
  • Women

• I kind of liked the idea of filming musicians. I could like a musician and know, at the same time, maybe nobody else maybe liked them much or appreciated them.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Time
  • Same
  • Musicians

• Remember Tupperware? That was the toughest stuff ever. Why can't they make a phone out of Tupperware?

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Why
  • Remember
  • Phone

• You earn the respect of your peers that you play against, and they don't trash talk you.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Respect
  • Play
  • Talk

• I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Time
  • Artist
  • Step

• The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports.

  

  Nate Holland
  • Done
  • Night
  • Action

• I like being by myself.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Being

• I always think I love work, and I knew early on that I wanted to be an actress. Then I meet people who have truly dedicated their lives to acting, and I realise that I'm so completely in the back seat.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • People
  • Work
  • Love

• There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Queen
  • Heads
  • Latifah

• I'm the only person that has ever run a principle-based legislative body.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Body
  • Run
  • Legislative

• Obama has no way to conceal that Osama was executed in front of his children and wives, who are now under the custody of the authorities of Pakistan, a Muslim country of almost 200 million inhabitants, whose laws have been violated, its national dignity offended, and its religious traditions desecrated.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Country
  • Children
  • Religious

• The musket, always a muzzleloader, took minutes to reload; an archer could aim and fire up to a dozen arrows in a minute. Muskets required continual cleaning and repair; bows were quickly made and easily maintained.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Up
  • Fire
  • Aim

• At the art college in Edinburgh someone arranged for some London groups to come up and play. I was in a supporting band, with Bernie Green I think. Derek Bailey was one of the visiting musicians. He seemed to like my playing and asked me to come down to London.

  

  Jamie Muir
  • Up
  • Art
  • College

• This was the simple happiness of complete harmony with her surroundings, the happiness that asks for nothing, that just accepts, just breathes, just is.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Harmony
  • Accepts
  • Happinesss

• Anyone who supports terrorism, anyone who sees terrorism as a legitimate means, anyone who uses terrorism to cause the death of innocent people is a terrorist in my eyes.

  

  Milos Zeman
  • Support
  • Innocent
  • Causes

• Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Work
  • You
  • Copy

• Rememberest the gods, and that they wish not to be flattered, but wish all reasonable beings to be made like themselves; and... rememberest that what does the work of a fig-tree is a fig-tree, and that what does the work of a dog is a dog, and that what does the work of a bee is a bee, and that what does the work of a man is a man.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Work
  • Wish
  • Dog

• It's usually when the cameras leave that the support leaves as well.

  

  Petra Nemcova
  • Support
  • Wells
  • Cameras