Michelle Monaghan Quotes

When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there are a lot of children in need.

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• I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Experience
  • American
  • Black

• I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • School
  • High
  • Small

• Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Today
  • Health
  • Problem

• I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Trying
  • Leader
  • Civil Rights

• Turns out, I couldn't catch them - or even get close to them. I realized that sharks are amazing, beautiful animals who have absolutely no interest in checking me out.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Beautiful
  • Amazing
  • Animals

• A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
  • Black
  • Lawyer
  • Group

• The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.

  

  Ed Victor
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Purpose

• There are so many people that say they are actors and they don't spend for 5 minutes a day working on their craft. You need to train and need to take classes to keep your tools sharp. I'm always in class, whether it's theater or drama workshops.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • People
  • Day
  • Drama

• I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics.

  

  Edi Rama
  • Love
  • Joy
  • Politics

• I have always wanted my children's dads to be involved in their lives. Not just the day-to-day aspect, but the emotional shifts that they go through, when little things pop up - they need to be included, absolutely, and for the children to feel that they are.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Children
  • Emotional

• When people see the Cubevision logo, they should know it's something good, something worth checking out.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Good
  • Know

• I enjoy every second I'm in the gym. I love to challenge myself, push myself; obviously there's a lot of different routines and a lot of different stuff we do - love cycling, and again, it's part of my lifestyle.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Different
  • Love
  • Myself

• You can have an interesting story about a person living an interesting life. And if it's done well, that is just as engaging as the end of the world. A million people dying - we can't process. One person, we can process.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I am not an educated man. I never had an opportunity to learn anything except how to fight.

  

  Pancho Villa
  • Opportunity
  • Fight
  • Educated

• Without interest (hers not the type to wonder why!) but with perfect efficiently, Miss Lemon had fulfilled her task.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Why
  • Perfect
  • Wonder

• Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • Parents

• Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • Guy
  • Nice
  • Smile

• The problem with couture is not designers; it's what happens when the couturier will no longer be there.

  

  Alber Elbaz

• I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Feeling
  • Me
  • Films

• I attacked with great resolution the editorial matter, and, reading it from beginning to end without understanding a syllable, conceived the possibility of its being Chinese, and so re-read it from the end to the beginning, but with no more satisfactory result.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Great
  • Reading
  • Understanding

• This war is being played in the realm of public opinion and has dire consequences for our soldiers in Iraq, the future of our country, and freedom around the world.

  

  John Doolittle
  • World
  • Country
  • War

• If a dog happens to catch a rabbit or another animal, it can very easily remove the hide. If a cat catches a squirrel, they have no trouble with that. But if a person does that, they will work all day and all night to get the skin off of an animal, because they don't have long canine teeth anymore.

  

  Neal Barnard
  • Work
  • Long
  • Night

• Animals that are killed for their flesh lead miserable lives. They are kept in disgusting conditions. The simplest little thing you can do not to hurt animals is just not eat them. I'm bringing my four children up vegetarian, and I know absolutely that I'm giving them the very best start in life.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Life
  • Up
  • Children

• When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there are a lot of children in need.

  

  Michelle Monaghan
  • Children
  • Parent