Erin Gruwell Quotes

I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world.

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• The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Control
  • Like
  • Difference

• I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.

  

  Rand Paul
  • America
  • Weapons
  • Allow

• Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Forget
  • Greatest
  • Thieves

• I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since.

  

  Owen Benjamin
  • Time
  • Children
  • Dad

• Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Sometimes
  • Better
  • Drunk

• If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.

  

  Nancy Horan
  • School
  • High
  • Day

• If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Nature
  • Wish
  • Universe

• Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Business
  • Risk
  • About

• When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Land
  • Over
  • Edge

• Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Writing
  • Walk
  • Lunchtime

• Topshop is one of my favourite shops, and I love shoes by Giuseppe Zanotti. There's a graduate fashion designer called Kate Falcus who makes me beautiful commissioned pieces - one of my favourites was the white Glastonbury dress she made me with the puffy skirt.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Beautiful
  • Fashion
  • Designer

• It needs to be said and heard: it's OK to be who you are.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • You
  • Needs
  • Said

• History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • World
  • History

• I will never let money from anyone affect what I do.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Money
  • Never
  • Will

• With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Love
  • Impossible
  • Patience

• I grew up on a farm in Lexington, Oklahoma, a rural community south of Norman. My family moved to Enid, Oklahoma, in 1962, when I was a junior in high school. This cast me into a totally different environment. Enid was a company town for Champlin Petroleum, and there was an oil boom going on.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Up
  • Different
  • Family

• I used to give up writing like some people would give up smoking.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• Election time is when you start to hear about 'average people,' 'working families,' 'patriotic Americans' and such.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • People
  • Time
  • Patriotic

• If there are people who treat me wrong, I either talk to them about it, or I don't talk to them anymore. It's been the most thoughtful and considerate thing I could do for myself and other people. I am going to try to do that forever.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • People
  • Forever
  • Thoughtful

• We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Read
  • Manner
  • Purposes

• I've lived in Forest Hill Village, Riverdale, Summerhill, The Annex and Cabbagetown. Finding the right neighbourhood fit in Toronto is only slightly less tricky than finding the right partner to share it with.

  

  Andy Barrie
  • Find
  • Share
  • Neighborhood

• Minor sports in the community is fun and recreation for everyone, not just the elite. I think back to my days in minor hockey and those are my fondest memories, having fun.

  

  Bobby Orr
  • Fun
  • Community
  • Sports

• I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world.

  

  Erin Gruwell
  • Community
  • Enough
  • Changing