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.

Erin Gruwell

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• 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
  • Eyes

• 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

• 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

• And shortly after that, when I try to get access to those soldiers, to ask them what in the world was going on, I was told that they did not work for me and I had no right to have access to any one of them.

  

  Janis Karpinski
  • World
  • Work

• Today's children have very short attention spans because they are being reared on dreadful television programmes which are flickering away in the corner.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Children
  • Today
  • Attention

• As hard as I try to sound tough and dark, I still sound cute.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Dark
  • Cute

• About a year ago I got really exhausted from reading bad scripts and I know that I am a writer and that I have stories to tell, so I thought, 'Let's do this!' So I'm co-writing a screenplay now with another screenwriter and loving it. Absolutely loving it. And I would like to be the producer on the project and of course the lead is me.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • Reading

• Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Country
  • America
  • Free

• Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvement.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Storm
  • Improvement
  • Going

• I don't support communism. I don't like that type of government.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Support

• We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally; to be alone with Him — not with our books, thoughts, and memories but completely stripped of everything — to dwell lovingly in His presence, silent, empty, expectant, and motionless. We cannot find God in noise or agitation.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Book
  • Together
  • Community

• 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