Amanda Ripley Quotes

Everywhere I went, in every country, people complained about their education system. It was a universal truth and a strangely reassuring one. No one was content, and rightly so. Educating all kids to high levels was hard, and every country—every one—still had work to do.

Amanda Ripley

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• It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Evil
  • Explain
  • Abhorrent

• My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Happy
  • Parents
  • Car

• Something happens to a woman when she can't reproduce. I've not had to walk that path, but I can only imagine when your organs don't work and how that could make you feel.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Work
  • She
  • Woman

• The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Experience

• I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • People
  • Kids
  • Want

• Today there are more things you can wear for the same occasions. I still like this idea of the perfect suit, and I always love tailoring, but today you can have more things for this type of situation, clothes that have class and that are mixable, and that are super well cut.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Perfect
  • Idea
  • Situation

• Just before I auditioned for 'The X Factor,' there was nothing in my diary at all. I had no shows; nothing was happening. It was make-or-break time for me, and I had to consider doing another career altogether.

  

  Fleur East
  • Time
  • Career
  • Me

• I don't feel a day older when it comes to my approach to music or what gets me off than when I was a teenager. I've always been into different kinds of stuff and when I play I like to play loud. I like my arm hairs to move and I like my body to vibrate 'cause I like the feel of it; I'm still a teenager at heart.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Different
  • Heart

• For me personally, I'm an activist, so I see a lot of turmoil and heartache in the world and tragedy.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • World
  • Tragedy
  • Heartache

• Why did the chicken cross the road? To prove to the possum that it could be done.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Done
  • Why
  • Road

• I like a woman who takes care of herself – it says something about the way she'll care for me.

  

  Usher
  • Way
  • Woman
  • Care

• It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're writers who perform their own material. It's more interesting. And they're sexy because they risk more. Stand-up comedians risk more than anyone.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Up
  • Interesting
  • Risk

• Alan Alda is loved not because he's sensitive, but because he's successful and sensitive.

  

  Warren Farrell

• The 'open' mind of the poet and artist can sense realities beyond the reach of our normal senses. The real problem is that our materialistic assumptions have a number of false premises built into them: it is only when we recognize this that we see there is no sharp dividing line between the everyday world and the invisible world of the clairvoyant.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • World
  • Mind
  • Real

• Se me abre una puerta, entro y me hallo con cien puertas cerradas.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.

  

  Bennie Thompson
  • Men
  • Women
  • Action

• The novel that an author writes is often not the novel that the reader reads, and most of the 'messages' in a novel are put there by the reader. There's nothing wrong with that, of course. That's how literature functions.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Literature
  • Author

• Some scripts you feel like everything is precious.

  

  Valerie Faris

• The music business is rougher than the movie business. In film you get noticed in a small role, even in a movie that bombs. But in records you better have that hit or else it's 'See you later.'

  

  Amy Madigan
  • Music
  • Business
  • Movie

• People could connect with me... I think the appeal was that, "Here he is, he's just a normal guy like us, and he's giving it his all".

  

  B.J. Penn
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Guy

• It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Hard

• If all else fails, you could wait for the first corner and tie his dreadlocks to the goalpost.

  

  Vinnie Jones
  • Waiting
  • Failing
  • Dreadlocks

• It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.

  

  Sallust
  • Gods
  • Principles
  • Providence

• Everywhere I went, in every country, people complained about their education system. It was a universal truth and a strangely reassuring one. No one was content, and rightly so. Educating all kids to high levels was hard, and every country—every one—still had work to do.

  

  Amanda Ripley
  • Country
  • Hard
  • Educating