Garrett Hedlund Quotes

I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.

Garrett Hedlund

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• There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People who complain about kids screaming on aeroplanes and in restaurants, and those people who love kids and enjoy their energy and enjoy hearing the noise they make and get off on their energy. I am one of those people who happens to love kids.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • People
  • World
  • Kids

• I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Done
  • Universe
  • Leadership

• The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • People
  • Movie
  • Day

• I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • People
  • World
  • Questions

• I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.

  

  Ed Asner
  • School
  • High
  • Career

• I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Life
  • Father
  • Sweet

• There have been presidents with business interests before. But there has never been a fully commercialized global brand as a sitting U.S. president. That is unprecedented.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Business
  • Never
  • Brand

• In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Trying
  • Myself
  • Make A Difference

• I would like to one day play a man. That is something I do know. I don't know what kind of man. I don't know if that would ever happen or not. It would be the ultimate challenge.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Man
  • Day
  • Challenge

• The thing about the Nobel ceremony is that for a whole week, you get treated like a superstar. You get driven everywhere. You have minders who always make sure you get where you're going. And you always get into the back seat of the limo.

  

  Jack W. Szostak
  • You
  • Always
  • Week

• The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • School
  • Science
  • Simple

• While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • World
  • Great
  • Interesting

• College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.

  

  Ossie Davis
  • You
  • College
  • Back

• It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Important
  • Needs
  • Story

• One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Good
  • Mom
  • Same

• I'm not a great reader of historical fiction; it's not my favourite genre.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Great
  • Fiction
  • Favourite

• I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Enemy

• Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Women
  • American
  • Chinese

• I love Twitter, and my little corner of it is heavily weighted in favour of women, many of them writers: Caitlin Moran, India Knight, Lauren Laverne, Grace Dent, Deborah Orr, Marina Hyde, Suzanne Moore. I look at that list of names and think, 'Here comes the fun - fun that knows its way around a dictionary.'

  

  John Niven
  • Women
  • Fun

• No doors were locked, few shut. There were no disguises and no advertisements. It was all there, all the work, all the life of the city, open to the eye and to the hand.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Work
  • City

• We have a moral duty to have an efficient government.

  

  Bruce Rauner
  • Moral

• Letting everyone down would be my greatest unhappiness.

  

  Marie Antoinette
  • Unhappiness

• I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
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  • Find
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