Carolyn Wells Quotes

What is a magazine? A small body of Literature entirely surrounded by advertisements.

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• I bought a girl roses once.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Girl
  • Once
  • Roses

• In many countries, they do not even keep track of how girls are doing in school, or if they are there at all. If we say, 'Girls count,' then we must count girls, so we can see if we are really making progress in educating every girl.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • School
  • Girl
  • Progress

• No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Power
  • Science
  • Politics

• Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Power
  • Genius
  • Innocence

• If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Think
  • Dinner
  • Thanksgiving

• I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Way
  • Like
  • Always

• Homecourt is everything in the NBA.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Everything
  • NBA

• I don't even like to go out onto the streets sometimes because I can't get anything done. People want pictures and autographs all the time.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Great
  • Like
  • Romantic

• As a writer, Chris Columbus was a big influence. 'The Goonies' was the first movie I ever saw that kids speak normally and not imagined how kids would talk. Always a big fan of Chris Columbus' dialogue and storytelling.

  

  Adam Green
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Speak

• It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Real
  • Want

• I would hope the NBA Players Association would say that people like LeBron could come out early because he's so gifted, but if you stay, you stay three years. Your skill level will be greater, and the chances of you going to the NBA are much greater.

  

  Larry Brown
  • People
  • Hope
  • Skill

• First and foremost, it was fun. Everybody involved with it made you feel like they were an important contributor to the process. We were made to feel valued.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Important
  • Fun
  • Process

• Waking among the dead, one wondered if one was still alive. And yet real despair only seized us later. Afterwards. As we emerged from the nightmare and began to search for meaning.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Real
  • Search

• Our thoughts and our feelings, of course, are not wholly objective, they're inherently subjective. And that's the danger, and I think as long as we're aware of it and can push back against it, I don't think that these two views are necessarily incompatible.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Long
  • Thoughts

• Well the specific role of the World Bank is to be ready with financial assistance immediately after this emergency takes place because you need to reconnect water, you need to reconnect power, you need roads, you need bridges, and that has to be done urgently.

  

  James Wolfensohn
  • World
  • Done
  • Power

• It's maybe an unrecognized fact of academia that what you spend a lot of your time doing is convincing people of your vision and raising funds to support your research activity. So in that sense, transitioning to a startup wasn't that big of a transition.

  

  Karl Iagnemma
  • People
  • Time
  • Support

• Every tournament I go to, I'm kind of learning a little bit mentally and on the course.

  

  Jordan Spieth
  • Learning
  • Course
  • Tournament

• National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Fear
  • Confidence
  • Body

• I think - whether it's music, literature, sport, art, whatever you want - there's nobody who can stop us if we only apply ourselves with the singular objective of being the best in the world.

  

  Enda Kenny
  • World
  • Music
  • Art

• Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Society
  • Source
  • Stupidity

• Forgiveness in any aspect of something that is complex is the greatest tool.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Forgiveness
  • Greatest
  • Tool

• What is a magazine? A small body of Literature entirely surrounded by advertisements.

  

  Carolyn Wells
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