Maggie Gyllenhaal Quotes

You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.

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• When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • First
  • Order
  • Trauma

• It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Up
  • You
  • Down

• I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Nature
  • Think

• We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Comfortable
  • Uncertainty

• I am not honest.

  

  Larry David
  • Honest

• The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • May
  • Truth
  • Bible

• If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Food
  • Choice
  • Salmon

• Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Sometimes
  • Fake
  • Credit

• I've always felt a bit hard done by in England – you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Ireland, but it has felt like nobody has even heard of me in my home country.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Country
  • Done
  • Home

• You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.

  

  Sam Altman
  • You
  • Progress
  • Try

• I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Strong

• You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Great
  • Important
  • Fun

• We need to fight to prove to people that it is possible to form an E.U. migration policy that is in line with the Hungarian national interest.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Fight
  • Possible

• A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.

  

  Adam Draper
  • You
  • Succeed
  • Where

• I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Like
  • Busy
  • Cattle

• My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Father
  • Best
  • Chemistry

• If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don't need. It wouldn't be entirely wrong, either.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • America
  • Crazy
  • Weird

• The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Intellectual

• Peace comes through strength, not through retreat.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • Peace

• I was born in the U.S., my wife was born in Mexico and emigrated here when she was in college, and my daughters were born in New York City. That makes them passport-carrying, natural-born, eligible-to-run-for-president Americans. But they're also Mexicans and they like that just fine.

  

  Jeffrey Kluger
  • She
  • College
  • City

• A good life is a main argument.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Life
  • Good

• Now, if you're Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you're mainstream America, two or three kids, mom and dad working outside the home, that's not a very good deal.

  

  Joe Barton
  • Good
  • Home
  • Kids

• The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

  

  John Stuart Mill

• You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
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