Thalía (Ariadna Thalía Sodi Miranda Mottola) Quotes

In society, there is enormous pressure for us to try and look good, to be politically correct, to say the right things, to be polite and basically to sacrifice ourselves on the way.

Thalía

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• The truth is, I've been on a team my whole life. I'm the youngest of 7, so I've been training to be an athlete my whole life.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Team

• I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Me
  • Stand
  • Betrayal

• In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Character
  • History
  • Death

• The Pentagon is actually a 10-story building, five up and five down.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Up
  • Building
  • Down

• A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.

  

  Patrick Murray
  • Truth
  • Win
  • Lawyer

• How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Men
  • Knowledge
  • Exercise

• People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Done
  • May

• Urbanspoon is a nice, little application and it's perfect, of course, for CitySearch because of the reviews it contains and the ability for CitySearch to use that content.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Perfect
  • Nice
  • Content

• Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Technology

• I would love to play a superhero. I sometimes walk around thinking, 'If I were a superhero, what would my superpower be?'

  

  Olga Fonda
  • Thinking
  • Play
  • Superhero

• I saw the S.B.A. with just enormous potential, and that's what I told the president - this is really a jewel.

  

  Karen Mills
  • President
  • Potential
  • saw

• I want to caucus in Iowa. I'll caucus all over the state. I don't caucus in California. You don't caucus where you live. It doesn't look good.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Good
  • Live
  • Want

• If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Giving

• My mum has always been quite free-spirited, and she has taught me a lot. I think that is probably why I have the sort of mind that I do.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Taught

• So much of what I do has been based off of my heroes and guys I've watched come up.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Up
  • Been
  • Come

• When you're from another country, you want to spend time with your family. All your family can't come here. All your friends can't come here. You spend so much time here, you want to go there, too.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Time
  • Country
  • Family

• I hate to lose more than I like to win.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Hate

• Emily’s chestnut-colored hair was thick and shiny as silk floss-an extraordinary female endowment. But like most female endowments, it was generally more trouble than it was worth.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Hair

• A tinker’s debt is always paid:Once for any simple trade.Twice for freely given aid.Thrice for any insult made.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Simple

• I'd manufactured more gearboxes probably in the aviation industry than anybody else.

  

  Louis R. Chenevert

• In a society of employees dominated by the marketing mentality, it is inevitable that a personality market should arise. For in the great shift from manual skills to the art of 'handling', selling and servicing people, personal or even intimate traits of employees are drawn into the sphere of exchange and become commodities in the labor market.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • People
  • Great
  • Art

• I learned that the first technology appeared in the form of stone tools, 2.6 million years ago. First entertainment comes evidence from flutes that are 35,000 years old. And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old - beads. And you can do the same with your genes and track them back in time.

  

  Zeresenay Alemseged
  • Time
  • Technology
  • Design

• Whether you like it or not, the last few years I'd be the first one to tell you I haven't been the Pedro Martinez that I'm used to being.

  

  Pedro Martinez

• In society, there is enormous pressure for us to try and look good, to be politically correct, to say the right things, to be polite and basically to sacrifice ourselves on the way.

  

  Thalía
  • Society
  • Sacrifice
  • Pressure