Etty Hillesum Quotes

I don’t want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to fulfill its promise.

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• I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Song
  • Inspiration

• I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Feel
  • Difficult
  • Adolescence

• I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.

  

  Usher
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Morning

• Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.

  

  Carl D. Anderson
  • Problem
  • Information

• Whatever road you've been given, enjoy that road.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • You
  • Road
  • Enjoy

• A hit film is what we work for as actors, as that goes to show that we have managed to entertain our audiences who shower us with their love and affection throughout the years.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Actors
  • Affection

• Growing up, I had a terrible pudding-bowl haircut. I used to cut it myself, and I'd sew my own clothing, too. I looked a little strange compared to the other kids. But the thing was, I felt I looked amazing, so what other people thought never bothered me.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Kids
  • Amazing
  • Strange

• I've met Bob Dylan. We did one of those non-handshake handshakes. I was with all guys, and he shook hands with all of them, and then they said, 'And this is Kate,' and I put my hand out, and he didn't put his out. And then I took my hand away, and he put his out. It was one of those. We finally did shake. And then I fainted!

  

  Kate Moss
  • Hand
  • Hands
  • Said

• Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Create
  • Just
  • Cotton

• Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as 'deficits as far as the eye can see.' But Mr. Obama's budget adds $9.3 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years. What happened to Obama the deficit hawk?

  

  Karl Rove
  • Eye
  • See
  • Budget

• Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Time
  • You
  • Doing

• I love to eat. If I could eat everything in the world and still be healthy or wouldn't catch a heart attack or stroke, I'd eat everything. I just can't. So I got to watch my health and take care of my family.

  

  Fat Joe
  • World
  • Family
  • Health

• I'm pretty low-key; you'll often find me in jeans, a T-shirt and sweatshirt.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Pretty
  • Find
  • Jeans

• I have never acted in one and I'm not at all interested to do so either.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Never
  • Either
  • Acted

• I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.

  

  Zara Cox
  • Shows
  • Favorite
  • TV Shows

• I'm hooked on Polanski's films, his psychological thrillers. I love 'Rosemary's Baby,' I love 'Repulsion.'

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Love
  • Films
  • Psychological

• I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Live
  • Learn
  • Forget

• When you make a promise, keep it.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Promise
  • Make

• I have not been without battle. Bitter affliction was frequent Between me and my cousins. Frequent trials fell Between me and my fellow-countrymen. There was frequent contention Between me and the wretched.

  

  Taliesin
  • Bitter

• Long before 9/11 and the war in Iraq, a lot of people hated the United States and the West. But what the Iraqi war seems to have done, at least in... I mean, I'm just reporting what I see from the people on the ground, is that it has silenced many pro-American forces in the Muslim world.

  

  Yaroslav Trofimov
  • People
  • World
  • Long

• One of the big mysteries about the black hole at the center of the galaxy is, 'Why don't we see emission from matter falling onto the black hole, or, rather, the black hole eating up its surroundings?'

  

  Andrea M. Ghez
  • Up
  • Why
  • Black

• It's a blessing to have people to support you from across the world.

  

  Offset Migos
  • People
  • World
  • Support

• There's a slippery slope in regard to authority. If you say that the history in Genesis is not true, then you can just take man's ideas as true. When you go outside of Scripture, why shouldn't you just reinterpret what marriage means? So our emphasis is on the slippery slope regarding authority.

  

  Ken Ham
  • Why
  • History
  • True

• I don’t want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to fulfill its promise.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • True
  • Promise
  • Seeks