Steve McQueen (Terence Steven McQueen) Quotes

I live for myself and answer to nobody.

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• I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Reading
  • Text

• Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • People
  • Time
  • History

• I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Weird
  • Sad
  • Look

• Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • World
  • History
  • Destiny

• Let us unite the world through the compassion for our children.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • World
  • Children
  • Compassion

• 'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.

  

  Edmund White
  • May
  • Death
  • Quality

• On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.

  

  Victor Francis Hess
  • Progress
  • Place
  • Now

• If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • Game
  • Change
  • Revolution

• That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

  

  Galway Kinnell
  • Poetry
  • Understand
  • Profound

• I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Myself
  • Always
  • Journey

• Oh. Yes. There. Is. A. Lot of pressure. As a solo singer. Absolutely.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Pressure
  • Singer
  • Yes

• I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Thinking
  • Myself
  • Youth

• America is addicted to wars of distraction.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • America
  • Wars
  • Distraction

• Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Love
  • Anything
  • Little

• I've always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people who go to India and to Africa and put their life in jeopardy to do what they believe is right.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• Albanians, we tan well! I don't burn; I bake.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Well
  • Burn
  • Tan

• Apparently I work for free, look at some of the independent films I've done.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Work
  • Done
  • Free

• A lot of the early Washed Out material was done on a couple of synthesizers that did most of the work, but that's the great thing about synths - you can recreate sounds or make an entire record with just one piece of gear.

  

  Washed Out
  • Work
  • Great
  • Done

• Dance and theatre afforded me the opportunity to discover my passion for acting, for telling stories.

  

  Kelsey Chow
  • Opportunity
  • Passion
  • Dance

• St. Augustine and St. Thomas define mortal sin to be a turning away from God: that is, the turning of one's back upon God, leaving the Creator for the sake of the creature. What punishment would that subject deserve who, while his king was giving him a command, contemptuously turned his back upon him to go and transgress his orders? This is what the sinner does; and this is punished in hell with the pain of loss, that is, the loss of God, a punishment richly deserved by him who in this life turns his back upon his sovereign good.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• The more confident one becomes, the less one needs all people to be the same.

  

  Jasmine Guy
  • People

• Live. Let nothing be lost upon you. Be afraid of nothing.

  

  George Sanders
  • Live
  • Lost
  • Afraid

• What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean.

  

  David Cameron
  • War
  • Today
  • Freedom

• I live for myself and answer to nobody.

  

  Steve McQueen
  • Live
  • Answer
  • Nobody