Alice Mattison Quotes

There seems to be a tremendous desire among many people now to know authors and how they work, to know what's autobiographical and what isn't.

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• Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Think
  • Washington

• There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • People
  • Positive
  • Attitude

• I love observing people. Each face tells so many stories. It lets me understand emotions, and that, in turn, helps me apply my skills as an actor.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Love
  • Emotions

• Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • People
  • Country
  • Odds

• We have this historic problem that we have a quarter of our population, the people of Quebec, who have never signed on to the Constitution. That can't go on forever.

  

  Jack Layton
  • People
  • Forever
  • Constitution

• I'm at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Peace
  • Myself

• I first moved to Denver to work with a group called YWAM, 'Youth With a Mission.' I was a kid - I was 18 - and did some work with homeless people. Really, trying to convert people is sort of an awful position to find yourself in, so I quickly, on my own, grew out of religious ideas.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Up
  • Artist

• Whenever you write music, you want it to touch people on a certain level. I mean, I've been reading tweets about 'Troublemaker' and people saying 'OMG, I can so relate to this - this is a guy that I fancy, or a girl that I fancy; it's exactly like this person.'

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Music
  • Guy

• I'm typically a 'just drink water' kind of guy. I was a bodybuilder in high school, so I used to - food to me was, 'there are this many grams of carbohydrates and proteins, and I need these micronutrients in order to grow and be fit,' and I ate in order to live and not live in order to eat, and I think most people are the opposite.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Live
  • School

• People who are making it to 100 live in environments where they are regularly nudged into physical activity.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • People
  • Live
  • Activity

• When people today say 'racism,' they mean it's a nationalism they don't like. Racialism used to be a good thing, a looking-out for what was best for one group... Israel comes out of that 19th-century idea of nationalism. Many Arab states also have preferences. It's fundamentally unfair to decide that one is racism and the others aren't.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • People
  • Good
  • Today

• People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • People
  • Women
  • True

• Freediving can be extremely dangerous. It's got an incredibly high fatality rate outside of competition. But there's never been a fatality in competition. In terms of spear fishing and people who train by themselves, it's the second most dangerous sport in the world after base jumping. If you black out by yourself, you drown.

  

  Tanc Sade
  • People
  • World
  • High

• The Constitution of the United States, like all systems of government which are permanent, had its origin in the history and necessities of the people through whose instrumentality and for whose benefit it was formed.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • People
  • History
  • Government

• The stroke has given me another way to serve people. It lets me feel more deeply the pain of others; to help them know by example that ultimately, whatever happens, no harm can come. 'Death is perfectly safe,' I like to say.

  

  Ram Dass
  • People
  • Help
  • Death

• I got into a fight with Walt Disney: I always pick the wrong people to fight with.

  

  Frank Tashlin
  • People
  • Disney

• I wish to be appreciated not only as a film star but also for the person I am. If I manage to bring a smile on people's faces, then I think I'll be successful.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • People
  • Wish
  • Star

• Stupid people do make me lose my temper and most people are stupid, fortunately for me. It's made it easier for me to make a living.

  

  Albert Gubay
  • People
  • Stupid

• Work that mobilizes you 24 hours per day and makes you responsible to all of the people in the country is worth propelling yourself through jetlag and uncomfortable news for.

  

  Dmitry Medvedev
  • People
  • Work
  • Country

• With a defeat, when you lose, you get up, you make it better, you try again. That's what I do in life, when I get down, when I get sick, I don't want to just stop. I keep going and I try to do more. Everyone always says never give up but you really have to take that to heart and really do never definitely give up. Keep trying.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Trying
  • Giving
  • Sick

• It's like, baseball is a very good game, but it's very difficult to explain to somebody, if you stop and think about it. I just feel my life is like that.

  

  Leon Russell
  • Life
  • Good
  • Game

• We are having trouble finding teachers to teach STEM. We also need to make sure schools have the resources. Some communities have multiple computers for each student in their schools. Other schools don't have textbooks, let alone computers.

  

  Brad Schneider
  • Alone

• There seems to be a tremendous desire among many people now to know authors and how they work, to know what's autobiographical and what isn't.

  

  Alice Mattison
  • People
  • Desire
  • Knows