Henry St. John Quotes

Our liberty cannot be taken away unless the people are themselves accomplices.

Henry St. John

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• I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Learned
  • Dangerous
  • Drive

• Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Value

• The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Mind
  • Pleasure
  • Naturally

• It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Dad
  • Secret
  • Fan

• It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Appreciate
  • Lens

• The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.

  

  Manika
  • Know
  • Kind
  • Travel

• I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'

  

  Daniel Curtis Lee
  • Think
  • Like
  • Young

• All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.

  

  Walter Payton
  • People
  • Want
  • Treat

• Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Mind
  • Strong
  • Support

• I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Time
  • Three
  • Take

• From 16 years old, I wanted to have a baby, that's all I wanted.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Years
  • Baby
  • Old

• I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.

  

  Kanye West
  • Band
  • Always
  • British

• Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Happy

• The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Ended

• Lots of people speak Afrikaans. It's not a statement; it's just a language that we use to communicate. It has its own flavour; it's got its own slang. People laugh. People like it. They like us being open.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • People
  • Language
  • Laugh

• I didn't feel self conscious 'cause my sisters and I all had thick brows, and by the time I got to the age that I could be self conscious about them, they were in style!

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Time
  • Age
  • Style

• I've never taken myself too seriously.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Myself
  • Taken
  • Never

• I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.

  

  Major Owens
  • Technology
  • Effort
  • Aim

• Change is inevitable, change will always happen, but you have to apply direction to change, and that's when it's progress.

  

  Doug Baldwin
  • Progress

• When we make progress and get better at something, it is inherently motivating. In order for people to make progress, they have to get feedback and information on how they're doing.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Progress
  • Feedback

• I'd love to remain a secret and still work, but I also want people to see the movies I'm in and get a higher profile because of that. I like to think that as long as you continue choosing diverse roles, you can avoid becoming predictable.

  

  Christian Bale
  • People
  • Work
  • Long

• I just feel so lucky to tell stories and make up stories and share them with people.

  

  Jon M. Chu
  • People
  • Up

• Let's just say that where a change was required, I adjusted. In every relationship that exists, people have to seek a way to survive. If you really care about the person, you do what's necessary, or that's the end. For the first time, I found that I really could change, and the qualities I most admired in myself I gave up. I stopped being loud and bossy... Oh, all right. I was still loud and bossy, but only behind his back.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Our liberty cannot be taken away unless the people are themselves accomplices.

  

  Henry St. John
  • Liberty
  • People
  • Accomplices