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.

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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

• If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • People
  • Society
  • College

• 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 was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Working
  • Captain
  • Waiter

• The more women serve in executive office, the more confidence they gain in themselves and that voters gain in them.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Women
  • Confidence
  • Office

• I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.

  

  Harold Ross
  • Words
  • Day
  • Short

• Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It's called being mass man.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • People
  • Light
  • Identity

• It's funny that Chairman Mao's great hero was Napoleon, because Napoleon started out as a revolutionary for the underdogs and then made himself an emperor. In fact, a lot of revolutionary leaders do that, and you think, "Well, that's spoiling your argument. What are you doing?" But on the other hand, the people themselves are enjoying trying out all these different ways to be. I hope that, like the Japanese, the Chinese hang on to their own traditions as well as try out Western ones. I hate it when people just lose so much confidence in who they are that they abandon their own culture.

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Hate

• 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