Ann Weems Quotes

We are freed to free others. We are affirmed to affirm others. We are loved to love others.

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• Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Well
  • University
  • Graduate

• I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Street

• We don't wake up happy and looking absolutely perfect and feeling amazing every day, you know? We're only human. So I think, with me, I'm not really scared to let people see that - because it's real.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movies, and Marilyn, who was ahead of me, was doing a lot of homogenized movies that weren't quite as wild as the ones I was doing. Jayne was more of a character of herself.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Character
  • Movies
  • Young

• 'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • People
  • Lost
  • Island

• I didn't really feel that there were any filler tracks on 'The Red Shoes,' but if I were to do that album now, I wouldn't make it so long.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Long
  • Red
  • Shoes

• Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.

  

  Nas
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Praise

• But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I was a teenager. Just that sense of romanticism and escapism and the dream of it has always been quite alluring to me, as well as that sense of becoming a character through clothes.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Character
  • Dream

• She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • She
  • You
  • Me

• If we ever find out how the brain works, with all its complexity, then we will be able to build a machine that has consciousness. And if that happens, that is a road to planetary disaster because everything we've thought about ourselves, since the Bronze Age, the Bible, all of that will be gone.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Age
  • Brain
  • Road

• I sure am handsome. I can't lie. This is one handsome guy.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Guy
  • Lie
  • Sure

• As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Political
  • Birthday
  • Release

• I have a box of things from Becca, my high school girlfriend, and Vanessa; and each one of them was love. I have the notes, the valentines, 20 mixed tapes, all of it. It's important to keep that stuff.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Important
  • Stuff
  • Notes

• You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Perfect
  • Tired
  • Mood

• 'Ek Main Aur Ek Tu' was a very special film for me. Imran and we complement each other very well. He is sugar, and I am spice.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Film
  • Complement
  • Imran

• Although most executives pay lip service to the idea of hiring for cultural fit, few have the courage or discipline to make it the primary criteria for bringing someone into the company.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Service
  • Courage
  • Discipline

• One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Long
  • Said
  • Blow

• Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.

  

  Faith Baldwin
  • Time

• I was an arrogant man. I not only thought I could manage my life without help, I wanted it that way. I had best-selling books and a TV show and movie contracts; I felt invincible, secure in the thought that everything was my doing. And then, like all arrogant men, I came to stumble.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Life
  • Men
  • Movie

• Trust in the context of a conversation is believing that the other person will acknowledge me, not take advantage of me, not embarrass or humiliate me, tell me the truth, and, in the broader context, not cheat me, work on my behalf, and support the goals we have agreed to.

  

  Edgar Schein
  • Trust
  • Goals
  • Conversation

• I haven't had many relationships.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Relationships
  • Many
  • Had

• There's violence in my culture [from America's South].

  

  William Gibson
  • America
  • Culture
  • Violence

• I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Father
  • Loved
  • Fathers Day

• We are freed to free others. We are affirmed to affirm others. We are loved to love others.

  

  Ann Weems
  • Loved
  • Freed
  • Affirmed