Ann Dunham Quotes

A healthy dose of guilt never hurt anybody. It's what civilization was built on, guilt. A highly underrated emotion.

Ann Dunham

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• It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• Hockey, honestly, was my first love. The excitement, the fast pace, the intensity of the game... I still love it to this day.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Game
  • Excitement
  • Intensity

• I don't believe in strong-arming people.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Believe
  • Strong

• I think, I think we need a Republican president from the real world to remind ourselves sometimes of what we need to do.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • World
  • Real
  • Think

• My daughter is the most normal towards me. For her, I am just her mom. I am just a regular mom, and the actor comes after that. If she likes something that I am wearing, she tells me, and if she doesn't, she still makes it a point to let me know.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Mom
  • Daughter
  • Actor

• I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Years
  • Shy
  • Publicity

• It's not a bad time to be me.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Nice
  • Strangers
  • Coming Up

• Where there is clarity, there is no choice. And where there is choice, there is misery. But then, why should I speak, since I know nothing?

  

  Peter Tork The Monkees
  • Why
  • Choices

• "I think you have to be ready to quit within yourself. If you're not, it doesn't matter what rehab you go to."

  

  Leif Garrett
  • Yourself
  • Quit
  • rahab

• It makes one’s head heavy and giddy, as if one were not looking back down the receding perspectives of time but rather down on the earth from a great height, from one of those towers whose tops are lost to view in the clouds

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Time
  • Great
  • Earth

• When you're not having to deal with all those polling sites it simplifies one's life considerably,

  

  Sam Reed
  • Life
  • Deal
  • Polling

• It's not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there's a pretty good chance you'd call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• The worst is feeling worthless.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Feeling
  • Feelings
  • Worst

• I still don't like the word agnostic. It's too fancy. I'm simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people. Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I'd said in a book I wrote that I wasn't a believer. I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel. This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people's holding beliefs other than their own?

  

  Alan Alda
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• Perhaps the most important word in success and happiness is the word,"ask."

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Important
  • Success
  • Giving

• My life feels like a book left out on the porch, and the wind blows the pages faster and faster, turning always toward a new chapter faster than I can stop to read it.

  

  Nancy E. Turner
  • Life
  • Book
  • Stop

• Write a list of ways that you have benefited from being married to your spouse. Then write a list of your spouse's positive patterns and qualities. Keep adding to the lists and reread them frequently.

  

  Zelig Pliskin
  • Positive

• Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Freedom
  • Perfect
  • Health

• I did a lot of theater when I was in high school and college. I also did stand-up in college, so it was always part of what I did.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • School
  • College
  • Theater

• I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

  

  Edna O'Brien
  • Long
  • Catholic
  • Irish

• A healthy dose of guilt never hurt anybody. It's what civilization was built on, guilt. A highly underrated emotion.

  

  Ann Dunham
  • Emotion
  • Civilization
  • Guilt