Melissa Gilbert Quotes

Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training.

Melissa Gilbert

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• All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.

  

  Osman Baydemir
  • Life
  • Change
  • Violence

• I have no animus toward digital, though I still pretty much take everything on a silver-based negative, either a wet plate or just regular silver 8x10. But I've started messing a little bit with scanning the negative and then reworking it just slightly.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Pretty
  • Negative
  • Digital

• Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Dad
  • Being
  • Choice

• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Know
  • Price
  • Late

• After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Work
  • Great
  • Alone

• I pity Americans for their very bad fruits. Your 'mango' is cucumber. The only thing I really miss about Egypt is mangoes.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Bad
  • Very
  • Egypt

• I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Man
  • Faith
  • Moments

• My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Beginning
  • Never
  • Strange

• I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.

  

  H. L. Hunt
  • School
  • High
  • Think

• I thought that Hollywood was just for geniuses and that directors come from three generations of directors. I was worried that I was not up to the challenge of making a movie. Then realized that all a director has to do is know what he wants to do.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Know

• I have always wondered why more women did not look into owning their own funds. Granted, it is a high stress, high risk business, but it also offers high rewards and control.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Women
  • Why
  • Business

• As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Flying
  • Perfection
  • Engine

• Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

  

  Al Stewart
  • School
  • Law
  • Cool

• If eviction has these massive consequences that we all pay for, a very smart use of public funds would be to invest in legal services for folks facing eviction.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Smart

• In the Dominican, there are a lot of kids who need help. I just do that for my mom because my mom liked to help a lot of kids in the Dominican. Whoever I am right now is because of her. She gave me the education; she always took care of me like a mommy.

  

  Alfonso Soriano
  • She
  • Kids
  • Help

• What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

  

  Pearl Bailey
  • World
  • Work

• We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.

  

  Charlie Haden
  • World
  • Art

• I do tend to be an anxious fellow, and I do tend to see the world as a little darker than perhaps it genuinely is, but I also do appreciate much more than a rosy scenario, I appreciate straight news. I appreciate honesty.

  

  David Rakoff
  • World
  • Honesty

• As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science. Whenever any result is sought by its aid, the question will then arise - by what course of calculation can these results be arrived at by the machine in the shortest time?

  

  Charles Babbage
  • Time
  • Future
  • Science

• President Obama's call for nearly a half-trillion dollars in more government stimulus when America has more than $14 trillion in debt is guided by his mistaken belief that we can spend our way to prosperity.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Government
  • President
  • Prosperity

• Amid the cheering of the crowds, he hardly heard his master's voice, but he saw the familiar head and shoulders, and the bright flag he was waving. He raced toward the seven-foot fence; without apparent effort he rose in the air and cleared the top with a good hand-breadth to spare; then dashed up to his master that he loved, and gamboled there and licked his hand in heart-full joy. Again the victor's crown was his, and the master, a man of dogs, caressed the head of shining black with the jewel eyes of gold.

  

  Ernest Thompson Seton
  • Joy
  • Effort
  • Eye

• I did three years training for stage in drama school.

  

  Elliot Knight
  • School
  • Training
  • Drama

• Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training.

  

  Melissa Gilbert
  • Education
  • Training
  • Raised