Annie Leonard Quotes

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• The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Life
  • Work
  • Economics

• Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the nervous energy dissipates and you start to relax and you start to do what you do best.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • Game
  • Energy
  • Best

• Homosexuals are not welcome in the Gambia.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Welcome
  • Homosexuals

• I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • World
  • Control
  • Eyes

• People, y'know, they either love us or they hate us; there's no middle ground.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • People
  • Love
  • Hate

• Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Mind
  • Rest
  • Slavery

• I could talk for ages about how women are amazing, but essentially we shouldn't be manipulated by the media's expectations of our bodies. I'd recommend every woman to read 'Women Who Run with the Wolves' - it's about being in touch with your more wild, free and powerful side.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Women
  • Free
  • Amazing

• I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Woman
  • Uncomfortable
  • Intimate

• I can hire out for editing, proofreading, formatting, and cover design, and those are fixed, sunk costs. Once those are paid, I can earn 70% on a self-pubbed ebook.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Design
  • I Can
  • Editing

• If you're going to sing on stage, wear lip stain.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • You
  • Stage
  • Going

• There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • God
  • Job
  • America

• I always thought everybody else was better than me.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Me
  • Always
  • Thought

• I think the next president needs to lead on cultural issues and experience, particularly on foreign policy.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Experience
  • Think
  • Lead

• I want to be a soldier as my father was.

  

  Kaspar Hauser
  • Father
  • Want
  • Soldier

• In my career quite a few people have tried to force me out, but so far no one has succeeded.

  

  Ferdinand Piech
  • People
  • Career
  • Me

• First drafts are never any good - at least, mine aren't.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Good
  • Never
  • First

• Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Science
  • Natural
  • Fact

• In Singapore, there is this life and locals and restaurants and then big casinos and an array of chefs, and even Miami is almost close to Vegas when it comes to an amazing presentation of chefs. But they don't have these massive hotels that have become their own culinary villages.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Life
  • Amazing
  • Vegas

• I want a heart like that, Andy, a heart like a star’s.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Heart
  • Star

• I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Driving
  • More
  • Go

• When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Year

• I'm a big reader. My kids love reading, and I think it's important, not just for development but for bonding. You start reading to kids before they can even understand what you're saying to them, so I look at it as a fundamental tool for connection.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Think

• There is no such thing as away. When you throw something away, it must go somewhere.

  

  Annie Leonard
  • Go
  • Away
  • Throw