Miranda Cosgrove (Miranda Taylor Cosgrove) Quotes

I like the old, classic scary movies. I love 'Psycho,' 'The Sixth Sense,' and 'Poltergeist.'

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• When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.

  

  Karen Bass
  • Early
  • Brown
  • Earned

• As an Asian-American actor, I believe it is important to never settle for the status quo. I feel a responsibility to do everything in my power to create positive perceptions of Asian Americans through my work.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Important

• I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Want
  • Success
  • Personal

• We just have to be crystal clear that if we were to abandon all the reforms made over some very painful years in the Labour party, we would be consigned back to opposition.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Party
  • Clear
  • Crystal

• Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Good
  • She

• We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Time
  • World
  • Why

• My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • She
  • Father
  • Me

• To fix India's healthcare scenario, what is most needed is 'systems thinking.' For far too long, India has followed a vertical approach in its health sector, which translated into disease-specific national programmes being set up.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Long

• When I was 13 my dream was to play the U.S. Open. Now it's to win it.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Dream
  • Play
  • Win

• All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Home
  • Want
  • India

• If both parents must work, I think it is more important that the mother has proximity to the child to therefore establish a childcare situation at the big corporations not once a day, but many times a day.

  

  Eric Braeden
  • Work
  • Important
  • Mother

• Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.

  

  Bobby McFerrin
  • Time
  • Present
  • Birthday

• Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • World
  • Education
  • Powerful

• I was very skinny. You know when your knees don't even look like they're attached to your body? Kids at school called me 'Snap,' like my legs were about to snap because they were so thin.

  

  Lauren Cohan
  • School
  • Kids

• When you have great performers and have set your movie in the right direction, it's a beautiful privilege to let the camera watch the action unfold without spoken words.

  

  Luca Guadagnino
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Beautiful

• Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of the socialist party. But then he became an orthodox Jew.

  

  Leon Askin
  • Great
  • Father
  • Party

• Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.

  

  Fred Rogers
  • Future
  • Parents
  • Past

• I meditate in the morning, and my daughter will do it with me, looking like the most perfect little Buddha. I'll do ten minutes of yoga, then two to ten minutes of meditation. She'll sit there quietly half the time.

  

  Alysia Reiner
  • Time
  • She
  • Perfect

• A free citizen in a free state, it seems to me, has an inalienable right to play with whomsoever he will, so long as he does not disturb the general peace. If any other citizen, offended by the spectacle, makes a pother, then that other citizen, and not the man exercising his inalienable right, should be put down by the police.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Long
  • Free
  • Peace

• I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just try to get into the character, into his or her head. Try to make it as funny, as scary or as wild as I can so that I really like it.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Different
  • Character
  • Funny

• We as preachers/teachers/pastors have to figure out things to do in order to garner the attention of individuals and also keep them at our churches by making sure that we reinvent ourselves on a consistent basis.

  

  Marvin Sapp
  • Attention

• I think there should be a law that would allow the Oireachtas to take pensions away from people. That would go for corrupt politicians; it would go for public servants who failed miserably or were incompetent.

  

  Leo Varadkar
  • People
  • Law

• Life is a disease ...

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Life
  • Disease

• I like the old, classic scary movies. I love 'Psycho,' 'The Sixth Sense,' and 'Poltergeist.'

  

  Miranda Cosgrove
  • Scary
  • Classic