Miep Gies Quotes

You are the heroes. You are the heroes everyday.

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• Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • Knowledge
  • Me
  • Training

• The ancient Greek view of happiness was really defined by leading a productive life: It's not about how much you have, it's about what you do with it.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Greek

• My uncles and my aunts were outstanding. There's just no other way to say it.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Way
  • Say
  • Uncles

• I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Great
  • Think
  • Film

• I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and optimism, but you also come away with an awareness of the huge gulf between what most of us have and what most of them have to make do with. Then, every now and then, a famine or a war makes everything a hundred times worse.

  

  Gary Frank
  • War
  • Beauty
  • Optimism

• I have this strength that comes from knowledge.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Knowledge
  • Strength

• Bring out the eyes.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Eyes
  • Bring
  • Out

• I would love to write a screenplay for 'Badlands' one day. I don't think I could ever have the patience to do it; I don't even have the patience to write songs. I write some of the shortest songs ever because I don't have the patience.

  

  Halsey
  • Think
  • Day
  • Write

• Ein Künstler ist, wer sein Centrum in sich selbst hat. Wem es da fehlt, der muss einen bestimmten Führer und Mittler ausser sich wählen.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

• I prefer buying things and figuring out where to put them later than regretting not buying them.

  

  Christian Louboutin

• I get up at 4:30 A.M. pretty much every morning during the week. I work out for an hour and a half. I do weights and I ride the bike, I run or I play tennis. It's my release.

  

  Cheri Bustos
  • Up
  • Work
  • Pretty

• I remember, years ago, if I had had an opportunity to leave the Lakers, I would have left for one reason: because I did not like an owner that was not telling me the truth. And it would have made no difference what they would have offered me; I would have left.

  

  Jerry West
  • Truth
  • Remember
  • Opportunity

• Honestly, I didn't like snowboarding when I was a little girl. As I got older, it became something I did with my dad. When I was 10, I knew I was good for my age, but I never felt that I was prodigy-level or anything like that.

  

  Chloe Kim
  • Good
  • Age
  • Girl

• You do not need 435 people playing commander-in-chief.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • People

• Generally, my life is absolute chaos, but when I'm writing songs, it's very thought out and regimented.

  

  Jamie Hince
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Chaos

• I know bugger all about golf.

  

  Charlotte Church
  • Golf

• I have a very high metabolism, and I have to constantly eat to keep on going.

  

  Debi Mazar
  • High

• I could do Daniel Day-Lewis's job as well as him.

  

  Laurence Fox
  • Job

• Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.

  

  Tacitus
  • Up

• The job of a journalist is to find out stuff. The job of the government - sometimes - is to keep stuff secret. There's a natural tension there.

  

  Alex Gibney
  • Job

• No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. In the first place brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him.

  

  James Boswell
  • Men
  • Hero
  • Boys

• The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Truth
  • Brain
  • Details

• At 16, I was in Toronto and very shy and not hanging around with anyone who was intellectual in the slightest, so I didn't really have the means to discuss what I was seeing and feeling.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • Feeling

• You are the heroes. You are the heroes everyday.

  

  Miep Gies
  • Hero
  • Everyday