Nan Kempner Quotes

I wouldn't miss the opening of a door.

Nan Kempner

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• To allot God a secondary place in life was, to me, inconceivable. Though He is the sole Owner of the cosmos, silently showering us with gifts from life to life, one thing yet remains which He does not own, and which each human heart is empowered to withhold or bestow - man's love.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Life
  • God
  • Heart

• My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Believe
  • Values

• Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Desire
  • Principle
  • Obsession

• Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read?

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Thinking
  • Why
  • Kids

• I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • People
  • Great
  • Musicians

• I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.

  

  Wally George
  • Different
  • Business
  • Kids

• I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • True
  • Sense
  • Equality

• I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • May
  • Europe
  • Refugees

• My idea of fast food is a mallard.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Food
  • Idea
  • Fast

• Fat Joe is signed to Fat Joe. I have a distribution deal for my label. I'm independent. I'm very happy with that.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Happy
  • Independent
  • Fat

• 'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Real
  • Job
  • Month

• Living without hate for people is almost impossible.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • People
  • Hate
  • Impossible

• If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • You
  • Me
  • I Can

• The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Trying
  • Think
  • Teacher

• The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Society
  • Value
  • Social

• We cannot afford to spend millions and millions over nuclear arms when there is poverty and unemployment all around us.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Poverty
  • U.S.
  • Unemployment

• When I was at school, I auditioned for the school play as Queen Gertrude, and I fell in love with it there and then.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • School

• Nicole's world had fallen to pieces, but it was only a flimsy and scarcely created world; beneath it her emotions and instincts fought on.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • World
  • Emotion
  • Pieces

• I am not suited to the role of going around selling the life-can-be-beautiful idea. It can be, indeed. But you don't buy the concept from your friendly door-to-door lecture salesman.

  

  John D. MacDonald
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Door

• Before the Barn-Door crowing, The Cock by Hens attended, His Eyes around him throwing, Stands for a while suspended: Then One he singles from the Crew, And cheers the happy Hen; With how do you do, and how do you do, And how do you do again.

  

  John Gay
  • Happy
  • Eyes
  • Door

• I wouldn't miss the opening of a door.

  

  Nan Kempner
  • Door
  • Missing
  • Doors