Frances Wright Quotes

Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.

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• All of a sudden I'm an actor, and I spend a decade trying to fit in and realising that I didn't, really. Sometimes in the right circumstances, with the right people, it felt OK. But other times it was a bit more jobbing. I didn't fit the mould, somehow.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Trying
  • Sometimes

• I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Love
  • Power
  • Voice

• I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Think
  • Age
  • Man

• America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Me
  • Ladies
  • Gentlemen

• My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Wish
  • Myself

• Take good care of our fragile planet.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Good
  • Care
  • Take

• Every artist was first an amateur.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Art
  • Artist
  • First

• I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Life
  • Child
  • WIld

• I am a Bolshevik.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Bolshevik

• I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • House
  • Best
  • Animals

• When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Pretty
  • Night
  • Band

• All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Money
  • Sometimes
  • London

• Soon, I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Time
  • Ideas
  • Others

• A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind - the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Taken
  • Old
  • Prejudice

• A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Money
  • Truth

• If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Essence
  • Creature

• I'm going to be acting all my life. But, while doing that, I will try to avoid the trappings of fame.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Life
  • Acting
  • My Life

• It's so lovely to know that people who you would never think know about Bollywood, they know about Bollywood.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• I had never heard of Cingular, but they needed people to jump on trampolines. Well, when I was 13, I was a trampoline gymnast. I had actually won nationals in my age group. So it was like one of those perfect, unbelievable miracles.

  

  Nate Torrence
  • People
  • Age
  • Perfect

• Oh, I had, 'No one will ever fancy me!' I had that well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. I don't mind the way I'm ageing. No reason to panic just yet. I think I look my age, and that's fine.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Age

• It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're going to be informed with in the future.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• I remain myself. I have never cared about others misjudging me.

  

  Cao Cao
  • Never
  • Cared
  • Misjudging

• It's an experiment, and it's probably good to have a couple states try it out to see before you make that national policy.

  

  Bill Gates
  • States
  • Experiment
  • National Policy

• Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Never
  • Better
  • Experiment