Saint Augustine Quotes

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• A lot of the players that I play with who are Canadian, they call me Patty. Before then, I never heard it. I didn't mind Patty.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Mind
  • Play
  • Never

• When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Best

• Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and a little bit of outdoor space.

  

  Barton Seaver
  • Age
  • Space
  • Start

• In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Garden
  • Germany
  • Bag

• We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • People
  • Kids
  • American

• People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.

  

  Kate Upton
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Children

• Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Sometimes
  • Confidence
  • Look

• Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Science
  • Community
  • View

• They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Thought
  • Office
  • Box

• You can't say somebody is a bust if they're making plays and running to the ball.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • You
  • Running
  • Say

• There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Eye

• Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Cool
  • Hands
  • Speech

• Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Stories

• The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Life
  • Action
  • Spiritual

• I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Time
  • Long
  • Think

• I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I enjoy about the sport is that it's definitive. Nobody can take away from the fact that you're an Olympian. It's indisputable. You get there on merit and merit alone.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Life
  • Alone
  • Proud

• If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Believe
  • Single

• I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Theater
  • Director
  • Go

• The flouting infidel doth mock when Christians cry

  

  Charles Lamb

• Sometimes I was in school plays, but only when the kid they'd originally picked got sick and they asked me to substitute.

  

  Peter Falk
  • School
  • Sick

• For 'Around the World in 80 Plates' we got to travel all over, having what was like a cross between a culinary competition and races. And in each country we had a chef Ambassador. We went to London, Barcelona, Bologna, Hong Kong, Thailand, Morocco... It was amazing.

  

  Curtis Stone
  • World
  • Country
  • Amazing

• Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.

  

  Sai Baba
  • World
  • Live
  • Values

• I can't make anybody happy, so I try my best to be good at what I do.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Best

• To seek the highest good is to live well.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • Live
  • Well