Meredith Ostrom Quotes

At times I ask myself if I shouldnt be living a more regular, stable life with a 9-to-5 job. Then I think about it and realise that there is no point in planning everything.

Meredith Ostrom

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• I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Stupid

• I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Film
  • Interested
  • Student

• I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Time
  • Colors
  • Icon

• I need to have proper equipment when I work out, and the Nike Frees are light, comfortable, and great for training. I also usually bring a short-sleeve or long-sleeve compression shirt and a pair of shorts.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Work
  • Great
  • Long

• My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Life
  • Women
  • She

• I am convinced, Yorick, continued my father, half reading and half discoursing, that there is a Northwest Passage to the intellectual world; and that the soul of man has shorter ways of going to work, in furnishing itself with knowledge and instruction, than we generally take with it.

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • World
  • Work
  • Father

• I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

  

  Max Planck
  • Happy

• I'm in professional wrestling, which is what I do for a living. I coordinate stunts. I memorize them.

  

  Kurt Angle
  • Professional
  • Wrestling

• I'm a Southern girl.

  

  Brooke Burns
  • Girl

• As far as I can tell, 1968 is a year about change, about revolution, about violence, about people turning inwards as community breaks down.

  

  Matthew Weiner
  • People
  • Community
  • Violence

• Slavery is something that affects all of us. It's all of our history.

  

  John Ridley
  • History
  • Slavery

• If you walk into a room that's bro'd up, and you're in power, bring more women into the room.

  

  Janelle Monae
  • Up
  • Women
  • Power

• The best proof of the specificity of the book is that it is at once a reality of the virtual and a virtuality of the real.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Real
  • Book
  • Reality

• Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.

  

  Tabitha Suzuma
  • Together

• Although I expect policy to follow the usual gradualist pattern, the pace of tightening will of necessity respond to evolving economic conditions, particularly the strength of the ongoing recovery in the labor market and developments on the inflation front.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Policy
  • Recovery
  • Labor market

• What a sad mistake we sometimes make when we think that God only cares about Christians.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • God
  • Mistake
  • Sad

• It's not enough to be born free; I have to live my freedom!

  

  Esther M. Friesner
  • Freedom
  • Born Free

• Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in danger of degenerating into a monarchy, an oligarchy, an aristocracy, or any despotic or oppresive form so long as there is any virtue in the body of the people.

  

  George Washington
  • People
  • Long
  • Liberty

• We are a typical working class northern family, big into our football... no one in the family was into acting. But I remember seeing a panto when I was about six and thinking, 'Yeah... I wouldn't mind doing that.'

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Family

• I caution writers all the time to slow down and pay more attention to the work in front of them than to the end result. I don't think you write one book and get anywhere. I think you write five books and then maybe you are finally on the right path.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Book

• At times I ask myself if I shouldnt be living a more regular, stable life with a 9-to-5 job. Then I think about it and realise that there is no point in planning everything.

  

  Meredith Ostrom
  • Thinking
  • Planning
  • Realising