Carol Kendall (Carol Seeger "Siggy" Kendall) Quotes

It's a lot easier to like people when they can't make life miserable for you anymore.

Carol Kendall

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• I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Human
  • Logic
  • Hopeless

• The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • World
  • Men
  • Silent

• I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.

  

  Laura Ramsey
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Me

• Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Music
  • Night

• I want to show that theater isn't just talking about feelings or people wearing tights.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Want
  • Feelings

• George W. Bush was a silver spoon dolt with no record to speak of other than bankruptcy and selling tropical plants, and we let him sail into the White House, but Barack talks about religious fundamentalism and guns being prevalent in poor areas, and we roast him for weeks?

  

  Adam McKay
  • House
  • Religious
  • Speak

• Loopt wouldn't have happened without Y Combinator.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Happened
  • Without

• I think you have to relax about aging. What else can you do?

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Think
  • Relax
  • Aging

• No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Money
  • Rich
  • Poor

• There are times when you do a play when you are living in the character over a two-and-a-half-hour period or longer, and you come to the end of the night, and you can feel like you were hit by a truck.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Character
  • Night
  • Period

• I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • People
  • Control
  • Manipulate

• Wait long enough and you reap what you sow. That hold for men. That hold for towns. That hold for a whole country.

  

  Lalita Tademy
  • Men
  • Long
  • Country

• Friends, genuine friends, are attracted by a warm heart, not money, not power. A genuine friend considers you as just another human being, as a brother or sister, and shows affection on that level, regardless of whether you are rich or poor, or in a high position; that is a genuine friend.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Money
  • Heart
  • Power

• We need to find secular ways to cultivate warm-heartedness. We need secular ways to educate ourselves about inner values. The source of a happy life is within us. Trouble makers in many parts of the world are often quite well educated, so it is not just education that we need. We need to pay attention to inner values.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • World
  • Happy

• Texas is reportedly going to give college students the right to carry guns on campus. So I guess that next semester, every college student in Texas is getting straight A's.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • College
  • Students
  • Texas

• Treat all men alike.... give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who is born a free man should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases. We only ask an even chance to live as other men live. We ask to be recognized as men. Let me be a free man...free to travel... free to stop...free to work...free to choose my own teachers...free to follow the religion of my Fathers...free to think and talk and act for myself.

  

  Dee Brown
  • Up
  • Work
  • Men

• It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Growth

• How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Forever
  • Wonderful
  • Blame

• It's a lot easier to like people when they can't make life miserable for you anymore.

  

  Carol Kendall
  • Easier
  • Miserable