Monica Lewinsky Quotes

I mean, there was a portion, of course, that I think, when I look back now, that there was a portion of what attracted me must have been the awe of him being a powerful man in this environment, not to take away from who he is as a real person.

Monica Lewinsky

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• There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Great
  • Money
  • Successful

• I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Think
  • Opportunity
  • Feel

• I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Think
  • Seriously
  • Grunge

• I think everyone's a little afraid of being part of a trend, because you get compared to each other. Writers tend to have a lot of camaraderie, and when you're constantly compared to someone else, it kind of damages that camaraderie, but I think this is a great trend. I'm honored to be a part of it in many ways.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Great
  • Think
  • Kind

• Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Wonder
  • Spiritual
  • Practice

• The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • History
  • Man
  • Present

• Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Important

• I started singing when I was five. I grew up the youngest of four kids who all studied classical piano, so you could say I've been listening to music ever since the moment of conception.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Up
  • Music
  • Kids

• At 11, I got my first job in a mini-series for America, and it was very exciting.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Job
  • America
  • First

• If you don't feel good in it, don't wear it, because you'll never look good.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Good
  • Look
  • Feel Good

• In this media-drenched, multitasking, always-on age, many of us have forgotten how to unplug and immerse ourselves completely in the moment. We have forgotten how to slow down. Not surprisingly, this fast-forward culture is taking a toll on everything from our diet and health to our work and the environment.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Work
  • Age
  • Culture

• Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • People
  • Leadership

• Form is, in a way, death. A novelist's obligation is to break free from the form, even though he knows that this will also be seen as artificial and distanced from life.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Life
  • Death
  • Free

• Growing up around British music, you realise how much depth there is to it... my stuff is different to the likes of Pitbull for that reason.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Up
  • Music
  • Different

• We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Different
  • Need
  • First

• Both parents’ rights must be in balance so children can grow up with a balance between both parents.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Up
  • Children
  • Parents

• It struck me that it might be interesting for once to do an almost blue-collar warlock. Somebody who was streetwise, working class, and from a different background than the standard run of comic book mystics. Constantine started to grow out of that.

  

  Alan Moore
  • Different
  • Book
  • Interesting

• Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.

  

  Anais Nin
  • Live
  • Effort

• That is the great contribution of Reformed thinking to the Christian church: theology for a life well-lived.

  

  Oliver D. Crisp
  • Life
  • Great
  • Thinking

• I did not expect to be allowed to be an actor, to be allowed to eventually direct things.

  

  Kenneth Branagh

• You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Up
  • Environment
  • Wake Up

• Conquering the world with words, leading the children like herds.

  

  LL Cool J
  • World
  • Children
  • Art

• When you're writing with someone else it helps you think of things you never would've thought of.

  

  Ingrid Michaelson
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Helping

• I mean, there was a portion, of course, that I think, when I look back now, that there was a portion of what attracted me must have been the awe of him being a powerful man in this environment, not to take away from who he is as a real person.

  

  Monica Lewinsky
  • Powerful
  • Environment
  • Person