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

• 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

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

  

  Laurence Fox
  • Job

• There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence and put pressure on current notions of accessible (and acceptable) narrative methods. To thrive and change and grow, any art needs this kind of pressure.

  

  Joanna Scott
  • Art
  • Past
  • Present

• When you're just an actor, you do your role, and then you're in your trailer. It's not as hands on as when you're directing. You live and breathe it.

  

  Jason Momoa
  • Live
  • Breathe

• I know I don't look edgy, but I have found that in my personality, I just have this natural energy that I enjoy edgier characters, and I really want a chance to sink my teeth into something like that.

  

  Dove Cameron
  • Energy
  • Personality
  • Edgy

• I used to think that if I didn't have time to do an hour long workout class, there wasn't any point in exercising. But now, I make sure to do a little something every day: a brisk walk for 10 minutes, climbing stairs instead of taking the elevator. Then a few times a week, I do a longer workout.

  

  Bobbi Brown
  • Time
  • Long
  • Workout

• I went to every game last year so I know who he is.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Game

• I'm a woman of faith. And I really believe that if I say, 'God, this is what I want,' He says, 'I'll give you your desires, as long as they line up with My will.'

  

  Ashley Graham
  • Up
  • God
  • Believe

• I like to dance to Latin music, like salsa, like reggaeton.

  

  Garbine Muguruza
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Latin

• The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face - it's for him to retire with a smile on his face.

  

  Mark Cuban
  • Job
  • Smile

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

  

  Miep Gies
  • Hero
  • Everyday