Oliver Burkeman Quotes

The effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable.

Oliver Burkeman

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• All of a sudden I'm an actor, and I spend a decade trying to fit in and realising that I didn't, really. Sometimes in the right circumstances, with the right people, it felt OK. But other times it was a bit more jobbing. I didn't fit the mould, somehow.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Trying
  • Sometimes

• If you've got Mystique as your girlfriend the fun you could have in bed – I've just imagined X-Men 3 might open with me in bed with Patrick Stewart.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Men
  • Fun
  • Girlfriend

• In this business, it's easy for either your heart or your head to be swayed, and I try to always stay true to who I am.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Heart
  • Business
  • True

• I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • You
  • Football
  • Games

• I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • World
  • Family
  • Love

• When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Bad
  • Childhood
  • Memories

• I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Why
  • Want
  • Television

• It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Why
  • Me
  • Practice

• We didn't have much money growing up, so we hopped around L.A. a lot in the '70s, '80s and '90s. I'm very familiar with the shifting culture there.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Up
  • Money
  • Culture

• To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Work
  • Live
  • Die

• Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.

  

  Fannie Flagg
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Water

• A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, 'Jackie, are you scared?' Of course I'm scared. I'm not Superman.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Me
  • Superman

• I don't want to be someone else.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Want
  • Someone
  • Else

• Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Women
  • Common
  • Citizenship

• Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!

  

  Ian Smith
  • World
  • Years
  • Everything

• I love New York. Love it.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Love
  • New
  • New York

• My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • World
  • Me
  • Daughter

• Freedom works, it turns out; the Constitution codified and structured freedom at a level unparalleled in world history.

  

  Oliver Emberton
  • World
  • History
  • Freedom

• Americans rightly, but sometimes excessively, celebrate every person in uniform as a hero, but seldom honor the difficult and often dangerous work being done day after day by members of our diplomatic corps. Warriors capture the popular imagination more easily than peacemakers.

  

  David Horsey
  • Work
  • Done
  • Imagination

• A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it goes, few men can tell. Assembling and dispersing with equal suddenness, it is as difficult to follow to its various sources as the sea itself; nor does the parallel stop here, for the ocean is not more fickle and uncertain, more terrible when roused, more unreasonable or more cruel.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Existence
  • Terrible
  • Creature

• My association with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is sort of predated by an effort that we were a part of here in New York City regarding the reaction to this 1954 Supreme Court [Brown v Board of Education] decision.

  

  Ella Baker
  • Education
  • City
  • Christian

• The effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable.

  

  Oliver Burkeman
  • Happy
  • Effort