Hugh Lofting Quotes

The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way.

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• Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • World
  • America
  • Elements

• It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • People
  • Good
  • Attention

• People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • People
  • Women
  • You

• I like power and I like to use it.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Power
  • Like
  • Use

• Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them they're going to be bigger than Phil Collins is the wrong way to do it!

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Money
  • Giving
  • Best

• I love sailing but hate cruise ships.

  

  Garrett Neff
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Sailing

• I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Soul
  • Food
  • Enjoy

• Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Good
  • Brooklyn
  • Funky

• I went to private school my whole life. Growing up in Los Angeles, you're surrounded by not just Connecticut privilege but, like, your-dad's-a-movie-star privilege.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Life
  • Up
  • School

• I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Time
  • Long
  • Game

• There is no right or wrong way of giving. People in Los Angeles have made major contributions in different ways to the city: Eli Broad to art. David Geffen to hospitals. I'm not judgmental.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • People
  • Different
  • Art

• Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Time
  • Period
  • Sun

• I played a million different sports when I was growing up. I started when I was probably five or six, and we'd just go from activity to activity to activity. I think, finally, my parents just realized that we were missing something in our lives. They realized that it was time for us as a family to start going to church.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Up
  • Time
  • Different

• I like the classic look. Keep it simple. There's only so much you can wear.

  

  C. Z. Guest
  • You
  • Simple
  • Look

• Ricky Martin is one of my idols in the industry.

  

  Maluma
  • Industry
  • Idols
  • Ricky

• After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • New
  • India
  • China

• We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Love
  • Perfect
  • Person

• When I was in high school, in my generation, I thought that you got a logical, sensible job, or you got married.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • School
  • Job
  • High

• It’s very hard to prosper in this modern economy if you haven’t fully unleashed the potential of your people. And your people’s potential, in part, derives from their ability to express themselves and express new ideas, to try to right wrongs that are taking place in the society.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Society

• Frances and Courtney, I'll be at your altar/ Please keep going Courtney, for Frances/ For her life, which will be so much happier without me/ I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Life
  • I Love You
  • Altar

• I don't like to write a script unless I know who the artist is. A lot of people can do it without that, and that's cool, but I like to look at the art.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Art
  • Artist
  • Write

• When I take up my pen to write, I feel the strength of standing up and refusing to be silent. In an oppressive situation, silence is death.

  

  Chenjerai Hove
  • Write
  • Strength
  • Silent

• The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Way
  • Achieve
  • Performance

• The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way.

  

  Hugh Lofting
  • Write
  • Successful
  • Illustrate