Virginia Satir Quotes

Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor.

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• There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Sexy
  • Hollywood

• Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.

  

  J. Cole
  • Like
  • Sometimes
  • Try

• I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Real
  • Want
  • Celebrity

• Mucinex were like, 'Would you like to be the Mucinex man? You sound like you're sick right now'. In each spot, they give me a little bit of room to do something strange. And in a world of fractured mediums, where there is no zeitgeist, and you get your comedy from your phone, it's all content.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • World
  • Man
  • Comedy

• There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Women
  • Story
  • Daughter

• I sing to Jesus for Jesus now. This gives me pure joy... worship!

  

  Vanity
  • Me
  • Joy
  • Jesus

• My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.

  

  Jack Black
  • Children
  • Love
  • Death

• Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Make
  • Skill
  • Tight

• I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.

  

  Larry Brown
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Up
  • Men
  • Perfect

• Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Problem
  • Responsibility
  • Environment

• I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Earth
  • Car
  • Truck

• I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Attention
  • Animal
  • Finesse

• I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • War
  • Past

• I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Myself
  • Try
  • Season

• 'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Work
  • Past
  • Present

• I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • School
  • Think
  • You

• If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything. And that's what this Olympic medal represents.

  

  Clara Hughes
  • Dream

• I don't know whether it's a fear of standing up, but I really love sitting at the table and blabbing. I learn so much that way, and I think I get free that way, free from inhibition and fears.

  

  Mare Winningham
  • Up
  • Free
  • Fear

• For Stevie, the words are of prime importance; the song moves around the words, rather than the words moving around the song.

  

  Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac
  • Song
  • Words
  • Moving

• As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Life

• Most time capsules, when they're unearthed, are really awful. There's nothing good in them.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Time
  • Good

• Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor.

  

  Virginia Satir
  • People
  • School
  • Teacher