Shirley Henderson Quotes

I don't have children, but we all want to protect whatever we love in life.

Shirley Henderson

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• I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Up
  • America
  • Freedom

• I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Long
  • Choice
  • Drink

• I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Music
  • Long
  • Care

• In America, to be ID'd - sorted, tagged, and permanently filed - is to lose a bit of one's soul. To die a little. This sounds like a subtle, poetic notion. It's not. In American legal and cultural tradition, one essential privilege of citizenship is not having to prove it on demand.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • American
  • America
  • Soul

• I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • People
  • Want
  • Faith

• The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

  

  Harper Lee
  • World
  • Book
  • Think

• There's a lot of girls out there that can relate to me. They can look at me and see themselves a little bit. There's a lot of girls out there that have a tougher side to them. I just think that people are really grown and attracted to that, and that's why people like to see me fight.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Fight
  • Girls

• Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, this is exactly how design makes tech products easily adoptable in life.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Life
  • Time
  • Technology

• At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I'm a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Books go a little wavy, but they're mine, so who cares.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Home
  • Free
  • Reading

• I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Real
  • Feel
  • Very

• I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it at the same time because I can read a book in a day.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Time
  • Book
  • Like

• I think that when you make yourself vulnerable, the thing that you do next is better. It's not like you have to inflict pain on yourself in order to make yourself better, but I think it helps. The thing that bonds you to a new friend isn't that you went to a really fun party; it's 'cause you had a really weird, sad conversation.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Fun
  • Party
  • Friend

• Punishment is justice for the unjust.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Justice
  • Punishment
  • Legal

• Destiny has always been something that interested me as a subject, but not in a fatalistic way because I believe that one can transform destiny through self-knowledge.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Believe
  • Knowledge
  • Always

• I don't like shows that are predictable. I like it when you're shocked and you have no idea who's about to die.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • You
  • Die
  • Idea

• When we are no longer able to change a situation - just think of an incurable disease such as an inoperable cancer - we are challenged to change ourselves.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Think
  • Change
  • Cancer

• I never want to hurt anyone on the ice. That's not the type of player I am.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Player
  • Hurt
  • Type

• The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • Art
  • War

• Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Men
  • Power
  • Remember

• It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

  

  Frederick Douglass
  • Light
  • Fire
  • Storm

• Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see - not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Time
  • World
  • Business

• Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Children
  • America
  • Together

• I'm playing great music with great people and so there's no reason to stop.

  

  Graham Cyril Russell
  • People
  • Reason
  • Playing

• I don't have children, but we all want to protect whatever we love in life.

  

  Shirley Henderson
  • Children
  • Want
  • Protect