Harper Lee Quotes

It's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you.

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• I cry all the time. I love to laugh, too. It's important to create an environment for yourself where you feel what you need to and don't hold it in.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Time
  • Important
  • Love

• Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Job
  • Create
  • Relationships

• The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Children
  • Family
  • Death

• I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Anniversary
  • Her
  • Buried

• I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Fan
  • Excited
  • Actress

• You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Art
  • You
  • White

• I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Commit
  • Promises
  • Loyal

• I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.

  

  Halsey
  • Single
  • Doing
  • Gold

• I've tried my hardest to bribe my chef, but my team have been clever and hired someone who not only is not bribeable but who chases me round the house and makes sure I eat what he's cooked, and he lays out my vitamin pills and supplements in front of me so I can't 'forget' to take them.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Team
  • Forget
  • Clever

• Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Time
  • Long
  • Understand

• I'm finding myself really angry over spending and the deficit. I'm finding myself really angry over what's happening in the Middle East, the decision to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely. I'm angry about cap and trade. And I've been on record for a long time on the failed war on drugs.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Time
  • Long
  • War

• Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • Help
  • Political
  • Government

• There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Fun
  • Religious
  • Movies

• I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Live
  • Past
  • Earth

• My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Moment
  • Memorable
  • Boston

• Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.

  

  Yuna
  • Song
  • Always
  • Egypt

• I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Trust

• You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Why
  • You
  • Walk

• Republicans want to use Obamacare in the 2014 elections against Democrats who voted for it. They want to see it fail, even at the expense of people's health.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • People
  • Health

• I'm generally risk averse, and most great entrepreneurs I know are as well.

  

  Jason Fried
  • Great
  • Risk

• My sister has a non-profit organization called Mission Change. It helps the homeless and kids.

  

  Phillip Phillips
  • Kids
  • Organization
  • Sister

• After the first couple of years recording, I did a lot of praying. I said, 'Lord, please give me a hit.' I want one so bad.

  

  George Jones Mr. President (band)
  • Bad
  • Couple

• Who hasn't sharpened the edge of his soul? When, just as our eyes are opened, we see hate, and just after learning to walk, we are tripped, and just for wanting to love, we are hated, and for no more than touching, we are hurt, which of us hasn't started to arm himself, to make himself sharp, somehow, like a knife, to pay back the hurt?

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Soul
  • Hate
  • Learning

• It's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you.

  

  Harper Lee
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