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 don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't have much emotional support, and people who come from working-class families who had loads of love but no money.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Money
  • Families

• Going in there just to win and put on a boring fight, I don't want to be related to anything like that.

  

  Eddie Alvarez

• I'm interested in telling stories about characters that are interesting and who are challenging in some way, one that will make you think about them afterwards.

  

  Dee Rees
  • Interesting

• The advantages of whiskey over dogs are legion. Whiskey does not need to be periodically wormed, it does not need to be fed, it never requires a special kennel, it has no toenails to be clipped or coat to be stripped. Whiskey sits quietly in its special nook until you want it. True, whiskey has a nasty habit of running out, but then so does a dog.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • True
  • Running
  • Dog

• 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