Nellie McClung Quotes
Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations.Nellie McClung
Quotes to Explore
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
Walter Lippmann -
The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
Ted Yoho -
You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
Naomi Watts -
I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
Gary Weiss -
Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
Sam Kean -
There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
Felix Dennis
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I don't put on makeup when I'm getting ready for a game, because why would I? I am gearing up for battle. How is mascara or eyeliner going to help me win?
Carli Lloyd -
I want people to understand that I intend to continue living and doing all the things that I love to do up until the end. And the end is by no means rushing up on me.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
In terms of script, Bollywood should learn from South Indian scripts. Not talking about the fights and action, I am talking about the drama bit.
Ram Charan -
I knew what kind of actor I was going to be, and I looked for inspiration to people like Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent. I looked at them and thought, 'They play human beings as they really are.'
Eddie Marsan -
When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
Larry Wall -
Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.
Dan Millman
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It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.
LaToya Jackson -
I've read the poker books, but at this point, everybody who's playing has read the poker books. I feel like I'm knowledgeable enough to understand what's going on in the game, and I understand why I suck. And I'm not sure if I'll ever rise beyond that to the level where I don't suck.
Ira Glass -
Most of us get our history through story.
Yann Martel -
On a blue island in a sky-wide water The wild orange trees continued to bloom and to bear, Long after the planter’s death.
Wallace Stevens -
If someone gives money to Apollonius, and the giver is someone considered respectable, he will take the money if he needs it. But he will not accept a fee for philosophy even if he does need it.
Apollonius of Tyana -
When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.
Maurice de Vlaminck
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There's so much standing around and waiting with moviemaking!
Alexandra Bracken -
'Star Wars' is so much bigger than any single person involved, so you feel like you want to do that justice and also feel like you want to do justice to that little girl inside me that never saw anyone who looked like her, that person who's starving for representation - it's a lot.
Kelly Marie Tran -
People always say to me, 'It must have been wonderful coming from old Hollywood, with all those movie stars,' but I never knew anyone. I didn't even know who Charlie Chaplin was. My parents really kept me away from it all.
Samuel Goldwyn -
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
Abraham Lincoln -
Children are great idealists, until the stupidity of their elders puts out the fires of the aspirations.
Nellie McClung