Nathaniel Branden Quotes

Pride is the emotional reward of achievement. It is not a vice to be overcome but a virtue to be attained.

Nathaniel Branden

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• I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.

  

  Frances Fisher
  • Fall
  • Hunting
  • Deer

• I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Perfect
  • Model
  • Role

• To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • World
  • Nice
  • Myself

• It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Help

• I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.

  

  Katharine Cornell
  • Amazing
  • Woman
  • Performances

• A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Life
  • Important
  • May

• What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Love
  • Characters
  • Films

• I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Heart
  • Movement
  • Come

• I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Children
  • Alive
  • Complain

• I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Life
  • Professional
  • My Life

• After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Lost
  • Alone
  • Risk

• I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Think
  • Responsibility

• I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Danger
  • Terror
  • Effect

• I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • Record
  • Very
  • Catchy

• I like to think of myself as very loyal, and I love everyone I surround myself with, whether they're friends or girlfriends or whatever.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Friends
  • Think
  • Like

• No man fails who does his best.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Best
  • Fails

• Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Day
  • Start
  • Early

• To create a work of art is to create the world.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • World
  • Work
  • Art

• I look back on my life like everybody does but not just career. I mean I look back on my life as a whole, so I don't think that I dwell there or anything and in terms of work I hope that there is a lot in front of me.

  

  Barbara Hershey
  • Life
  • Work
  • Hope

• When you have kids, you just can't believe your heart could love something so much. My kids inspire me every day and I think I'm a better singer now because they have given me a greater emotional well to draw from.

  

  Katie Noonan
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Women

• I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • School
  • Power
  • Sun

• I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Family
  • Way
  • Apologize

• We have a crisis in nuclear weapons, and again, thanks very much to the Democrats: Bill Clinton, who removed us from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty framework for nuclear disarmament, and then Barack Obama, who created a trillion-dollar budget for us to spend on a new generation of nuclear weapons and modes of delivery.

  

  Jill Stein
  • Thanks

• Pride is the emotional reward of achievement. It is not a vice to be overcome but a virtue to be attained.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Emotional
  • Pride
  • Achievement