Amanda Craig Quotes

I’ve noticed that whenever institutions claim to be confident of anything it means the complete opposite.

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• Time stays, we go.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Go
  • Stays

• I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • People
  • Value
  • Discipline

• Everyone needs something they're good at. You want your kids to be passionate and figure out something they're good at.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Want

• Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee.

  

  Sam Peckinpah
  • Great
  • Wife
  • Film

• I've learned that I get blocked when my subconscious mind is telling me that I've taken the work in a wrong direction, and that once I start listening to what my subconscious is trying to tell me, I can work out the problem and get moving again.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Trying

• My brain is - essentially, you take any college football player in the country, because I have had multiple, multiple concussions. I had 10 documented concussions, four post-concussion seizures and so, but, with that said, my brain is no worse than your average college football player's brain, right?

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Country
  • College
  • Football

• I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Writing
  • New York
  • Short

• Chance explorations on search engines do not 'accidentally' lead users to extremist websites.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Chance
  • Search
  • Lead

• The ribosome is a machine that gets instructions from the genetic code and operates chemically in order to produce the product.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Order
  • Product
  • Genetic

• That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Movie
  • Never
  • Finish

• I've been married to Kris for 21 years, and there have always been rocky times. And it's nothing special.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Always
  • Years
  • Special

• Our mass movement will shatter this communal, fascist and autocratic center.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Will
  • Movement
  • Center

• There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Today
  • Single
  • Courage

• Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Life
  • Love
  • For Her

• I don't eat when I'm working. If I start to fridge-raid, I'm in trouble.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Working
  • Start
  • Trouble

• I don't see myself as disabled. There's nothing I can't do that able-bodied athletes can do.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Myself
  • See
  • Nothing

• The contrasts and contradictions that can permanently live peacefully side by side in a skull make all the systems of political optimists and pessimists illusory.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Live
  • Contradictions
  • Illusory

• The chronic kicker, even the most violent critic, will frequently soften and be subdued in the presence of a patient, sympathetic listener— a listener who will be silent while the irate fault-finder dilates like a king cobra and spews the poison out of his system.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • King

• I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Great
  • Art
  • American

• We knew before the tournament that this would be like a final for us, that it would be a tough group and that it wouldn't be a cakewalk. But everything is in our hands and that's why I am very confident...

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • Confident
  • Final
  • Tournament

• There is a bit of me if I'm pushed in one way I might bounce back and go the opposite.

  

  Joseph Fiennes
  • Back
  • Opposite
  • Pushed

• When I was first running marathons, we were sailing on a flat earth. We were afraid we'd get big legs, grow mustaches, not get boyfriends, not be able to have babies. Women thought that something would happen to them, that they'd break down or turn into men, something shadowy, when they were only limited by their own society's sense of limitations.

  

  Kathrine Switzer
  • Break
  • Happen
  • Limitations

• I’ve noticed that whenever institutions claim to be confident of anything it means the complete opposite.

  

  Amanda Craig
  • Confident
  • Institutions
  • Opposite