Shailene Woodley Quotes

The thing with labels is they're not for you, they're for other people. Like labels are just a word for other people to understand you and that's it.

Shailene Woodley

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• This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Why
  • Hate
  • Play

• The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Small
  • Islam
  • Prophet

• I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Make A Difference

• Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Technology
  • Humanity
  • Poverty

• 'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Music
  • Record
  • Well

• I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good at was 'Street Fighter.'

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Good
  • Game
  • Street

• One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'

  

  Ram Charan
  • Love
  • Stories
  • Love Stories

• I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • She
  • Team
  • Me

• I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Thought
  • Ambition
  • Surprise

• It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Character
  • Book
  • Author

• I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Blind

• I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Myself

• No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Spring
  • Flowers

• Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.

  

  Dan Savage
  • People
  • Heart
  • Me

• It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Joy
  • Pleasure
  • Confused

• I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Up
  • Family
  • Faith

• The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.

  

  Dan Savage
  • Important
  • Marriage
  • Expectation

• I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Up
  • Work
  • Mind

• It took me 20 years to buy an electric typewriter, because I was afraid it would be too sensitive. I like to bang the keys. I'm doing action stories, so that's the way I like to do it.

  

  Elmore Leonard
  • Action

• I love boating - not flash, 'noisy go fast' nonsense, but the general relaxation of it. My wife and I love to get in our little Wellcraft and go as far out to sea as we can, hopefully beyond land. That is the best thing you can ever do. It clears your psyche.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Wife
  • Sea

• Before I got divorced, I was personally unfamiliar with trial, or at least trial of serious, heart-wrenching proportions. I figured that life went smoothly if you tried hard, and if you messed up, or things weren't working out, you just tried harder.

  

  Kristin Armstrong
  • Life
  • Up
  • Heart

• If there's one thing that I love as an entertainer, it's a spectacle. We all have looked up to either Michael Jackson or Madonna or Janet Jackson or anyone of those things. When I was in *N SYNC, I would watch any concert video ever and really drink it all in.

  

  JC Chasez NSYNC
  • Up

• Blogging is great, and I read blogs all day long. However, my goal is really to have a deep, meaningful discussion with people. For some reason, I'm able to accomplish this best via email.

  

  Jason Calacanis
  • People
  • Great
  • Long

• The thing with labels is they're not for you, they're for other people. Like labels are just a word for other people to understand you and that's it.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • People
  • Word
  • Labels