Carolyn Mackler Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.
-
Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
-
I definitely grew up as a small-town... I guess you could call it the 'small-town football player,' according to the stereotype. I wasn't involved in music at all.
-
Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.
-
Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.
-
But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations.
-
No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?
-
I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.
-
Shakespeare showed me that once I understand the rules, I can break them.
-
I was a groupie for a year and followed a band. I dated the drummer of the band.
-
Jessica Jackley has a gift for making people want to fork over their cash. To total strangers. Far, far away.
-
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
-
I do believe, as a person of color, the disparities are great. A lot of the roles that were sent to me were 'Gangbanger No. 1.' And when a role did come up that I felt carried and represented my community in the best ways, I wasn't the only one that knew it existed. So I'd have to compete.
-
I have music in my brain all the time, all sorts.
-
No man need go blindly to destruction, for God has given him guidance and power of seeing whither he goes.
-
I want to say very clearly that the government... is ready to intervene in order to guarantee the stability of banks and the savings of our citizens.
-
Only recently have I been introduced to the gym and heavy weightlifting and things like that. Before that, when I grew up, I just did a lot of gymnastics and dance. I had more of an athletic background, but nothing where I was in the gym or using any kind of weights.
-
Let what is irksome become habitual, no more will it trouble you.
-
Sometimes I forget what I put in. I want to capture things in that way, where you're looking into your memory, a dream or hallucination. The characters become a mixture of archetypes, and that's what I like. You're trying to figure it out and your brain wants to categorize things, but it can't because of this motion. You want to solve the problem, but it never gets solved. It's like when you read a really good book and the story never leaves you.
-
I do think it's possible to change for the better.
-
The story you choose to tell isn't always the story you believe.
-
I knew boxing before I knew anything else.
-
He had no idea there even was a before until he crashed hard into the after.
