Alexandra Potter Quotes
But I figure you're never too old to learn. That's when you become old, when you stop being fascinated by things, when you stop wanting to learn and explore.Alexandra Potter
Quotes to Explore
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
Idris Elba -
I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers.
Patrick Collison -
Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Samuel Goldwyn -
I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the way I was brought up.
Madhuri Dixit -
Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
H. P. Lovecraft -
I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
Ira Glass
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
Rachel Weisz -
People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
E. O. Wilson -
If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
Frances McDormand -
I like that feeling of letting loose, of not planning every step. The best performances are the ones that you just let happen.
Damian Woetzel -
My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.
Jack Ma -
One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!
Gail Z. Martin
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
Patricia Riggen -
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador Dali -
I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
R. J. Cutler -
'SpongeBob SquarePants' is a great show, and it centers on a character that is courageously nice. Why is SpongeBob interesting? It's because he has passion. He has a passion for chasing jellyfish.
Vince Gilligan -
U.S. nuclear weapons that are available for presidential use are targeted against broad ocean areas.
C. Robert Kehler -
Every so often, we - women in film and TV - get annoyed and frustrated. We kick up a fuss and make some gains. But then we become complacent, and things slide backwards again until the next generation comes up and gets frustrated again.
Caitriona Balfe
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Young people are this awesome, creative, hopeful untapped resource out there.
Nancy Lublin -
Back in the day, I was always broke and was living in a converted garage at the age of 40, and then I decided I was unavailable to live my life with that reality, so I decided to change it.
Jen Sincero -
I'm still having fun and as long as skiing is enjoyable, I'm going to continue to do it.
Bode Miller -
The old Old winds that blew When chaos was, what do They tell the clattered trees that I Should weep?
Adelaide Crapsey -
Today at school I will learn to read at once; then tomorrow I will begin to write, and the day after tomorrow to cipher. Then with my acquirements I will earn a great deal of money, and with the first money I have in my pocket I will immediately buy for my papa a beautiful new cloth coat. But what am I saying? Cloth, indeed! It shall be all made of gold and silver, and it shall have diamond buttons. That poor man really deserves it; for to buy me books and to have me taught he has remained in his shirt sleeves... And in this cold! It is only fathers who are capable of such sacrifices!...
Carlo Collodi -
But I figure you're never too old to learn. That's when you become old, when you stop being fascinated by things, when you stop wanting to learn and explore.
Alexandra Potter