Wendy Whelan Quotes
We are constantly revealing ourselves to each other through our movement; learning from and teaching each other without even trying.
Quotes to Explore
-
I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.
-
The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
-
Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
-
You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
-
Until part of your paycheck is regularly paid in Bitcoin, I'm not sure how it would really go mainstream. I can imagine places in the world where there are not functioning banking systems or payroll systems, where it could go mainstream first because you're not trying to replace the way people are already doing something.
-
There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.
-
I don't like allegories.
-
He was about building up the Trump name and then selling it and leasing it in as many different ways as possible.
-
Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
-
We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
-
Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.
-
My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
-
An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
-
I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how to read a line.
-
We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.
-
Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.
-
My father was a tailor. He worked from seven o'clock in the morning until seven at night. At least when he got home, my mother always cooked him a very good dinner. Lots of potatoes, I remember; he used to knock them down like a dose of salts. He needed it, after a 12-hour day.
-
I'm not someone who feels settled.
-
When conflicted between two choices, take neither.
-
No actor can play a villain if they don't sympathise with him or her - otherwise the character just becomes a two-dimensional caricature.
-
My father's a police officer, and he's told me numerous times about his training and how they've gone through what they call verbal judo, which is essentially them trying to de-escalate the situation.
-
He knew one thing only, and it was beyond fear or reason: He was not going to die crouching here like a child playing hide-and-seek; he was not going to die kneeling at Voldemort’s feet . . . he was going to die upright like his father, and he was going to die trying to defend himself, even if no defense was possible. . . .
-
[Political movements] both favor alcohol and are against pot.
-
We are constantly revealing ourselves to each other through our movement; learning from and teaching each other without even trying.
