CeCe McDonald Quotes

Prisons aren't safe for anyone, and that's the key issue

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• If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Nice

• The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Reason
  • Poet
  • Himself

• When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Made
  • Artists
  • Back

• It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • College
  • Speed
  • Motorcycle

• Be happy that you're growing older, that you're maturing, that you're smarter, that you're wiser.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Happy
  • Growing
  • Be Happy

• The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Enough
  • Speak
  • One Word

• Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.

  

  Ovid
  • Why
  • Nothing
  • Details

• At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are cases in which we don't have the knowledge to predict the full consequences. Global warming and climate change are examples.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Knowledge
  • Change
  • Simple

• For me, no ideological or political conviction would justify the sacrifice of a human life. For me, the value of life is absolute, with no concessions. It's not negotiable.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Life
  • Political
  • Value

• Central banks need to be able to buy bonds if there are short-term malfunctions of the markets. But buying bonds without differentiation and without limits would be very problematic.

  

  Lars Feld
  • Need
  • Limits
  • Without

• It was so crazy, lucky, that 'Defiance' and 'Hemlock Grove' was shooting in Toronto at the same time. I got to be on both of them.

  

  Kaniehtiio Horn
  • Time
  • Crazy
  • Same

• In a comedy, after the day is done, you can figure out ways of how to make it even funnier for the next day. In dramas, it's very different - the mindset that you're in.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Different
  • Done
  • Comedy

• Politics is compromise.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Politics
  • Compromise

• Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit

  

  Doris Day
  • Imagination
  • Explicit
  • Vulgarity

• Am I learning how to use my Bible? The way to become complete for the Master’s service is to be well soaked in the Bible; some of us only exploit certain passages. Our Lord wants to give us continuous instruction out of His word; continuous instruction turns hearers into disciples.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Learning
  • Service
  • Bible

• I am done doing that, ... I don't see it getting any better.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Done
  • Doing

• His eyes are blue, and blue eyes up close are a celestial phenomenon: nebulae as seen through telescopes, the light of unnamed stars diffused through dusts and elements and endlessness. Layers of light. Blue eyes are starlight.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Up
  • Light
  • Eyes

• I think that people are concerned about the breakdown of the family but they also don't want to see discrimination against gays and lesbians who they work with and they want to be able to make sure that gays can visit each other in hospitals and be able to inherit property.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Work
  • Thinking

• The distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates.

  

  Anna Brownell Jameson
  • Talent
  • Genius
  • Distinction

• Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game.

  

  David Bronstein
  • Game
  • Quality
  • Independence

• I found out later on that was not true, that life drawing tells you a great deal about rhythm, about the structure of a human being or any animate object, and this could be directly translated into thinking about proportion and accent, rhythm in a pot form.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Drawing
  • Found
  • Form

• I don't care whether a role is 10 minutes long or two hours. And I don't care whether my name is up there on top, either. Matter of fact, I'd rather have someone else get top billing; then if the picture bombs, he gets the blame, not me.

  

  Ernest Borgnine
  • Picture
  • Blame
  • I Don't Care

• I am not sure that it is best for us, once safe and secure on the Rock of Ages, to ask ourselves too closely what this and that experience may signify. Is it not better to be thinking of the Rock, not of the feet that stand upon it?

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • Experience
  • Rock
  • Safe

• Prisons aren't safe for anyone, and that's the key issue

  

  CeCe McDonald
  • Safe
  • Key
  • Issue