Alice Mattison Quotes

We still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think.

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• I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Name
  • Down
  • Chair

• I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • Good
  • Work
  • Learning

• I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Think
  • Political
  • Party

• I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Problem
  • Violence

• This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.

  

  Nat Friedman
  • People
  • Need
  • Tool

• Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • Playing
  • Musical
  • Group

• I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Good
  • Great
  • Heart

• When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Night
  • Single
  • Myself

• I, Maggie, personally cannot tell you that you're going to save the planet. But what I do know is that we can draw a line to an issue that can conserve what we already have and what's left in a way that we can actually breathe the air, drink the water, actually grow things in soil - that matters in a real, practical way.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Real
  • Know
  • Water

• I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Change
  • Accept
  • Willing

• I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Money
  • Birthday
  • Bank

• Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Feeling
  • Own
  • Average

• I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Mother
  • Food
  • Birthday

• When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Great
  • America
  • Kings

• I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Voice
  • Lucky
  • Rhythm

• My parents don't have any showbusiness links. They are so far away from it.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Parents
  • Far
  • Far Away

• I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Think
  • Eyes
  • Constitution

• For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument, that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Animal
  • Architecture

• Spiritual progress is like a detoxification.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Spiritual
  • Progress
  • Detoxification

• Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.

  

  bell hooks
  • Life
  • Time
  • Death

• Pay-Per-View is run by drama. It is. It's true. I've done the research for myself. You look at Jon Jones. When Jon Jones fought Machida, probably did about $200,000, $300,000. When he fought Cormier, they made, like, $875,000.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Done
  • True
  • Drama

• I love movies that are saying things that people might find odd at times. I don't find them odd at all. They give me comfort.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • People

• We still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think.

  

  Alice Mattison
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Writing