Charles Finch Quotes

Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door.

Charles Finch

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• Upper education used to open doors. Not so true anymore. The degree used to be a screening tool, but that is falling by the wayside as there are a glut of college grads on the market.

  

  Dale Archer
  • True
  • Education
  • College

• My wife and I were both very engaged in trying to defeat Trump. We knocked on doors in three states.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Trying
  • Wife
  • Trump

• I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • Will
  • Doors
  • Secrets

• Education is a way of empowering people; it opens up so many doors and is fundamental to everybody. And teachers are not often appreciated in the way that they should be.

  

  Camila Alves
  • People
  • Up
  • Education

• New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Me
  • Hard
  • New York

• When I started producing, it was George Abbott directing and he would let me do the scenery. He just wanted to know where the doors were - the entrances, the exits; the tables, the props - and then I would hire the designer. I took charge of the visuals - scenery and costumes and so on. And, the shows looked wonderful.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Know
  • Me
  • Doors

• Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Mean
  • Imagination
  • Doors

• I know I got to do something that's one in a million, to escape a refugee camp, to come to this country and have so many doors open for me. So I want to go back and make a difference and give motivation or hope to all the kids that never got to leave or have the privilege that I did.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Country
  • Kids
  • Hope

• The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Fear
  • Challenge
  • Doors

• God will open any doors he wants to open, and if He closes doors, that's fine, too.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • God
  • Doors
  • Open

• I always hold doors open, I always try to be nice.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Nice
  • Try
  • Doors

• I think every credit you get and every film you have your name attached to makes things a little bit easier. It definitely opens doors up, but it's still a grind.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Up
  • Name
  • Doors

• Now, of course, people know that over the last several months prior to February 21st, 1965, the OAAU and MMI tried to get away from the old practices of checking people at the door for weapons. They wanted people to feel more comfortable.

  

  Manning Marable
  • People
  • Feels
  • Door

• When individuals get crowbars and start prying open doors to loot, they're not protesting. They're not making a statement. They're stealing. When they burn down a building, they're committing arson.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Doors
  • Stealing
  • Arson

• The most important lesson I've learned is to not limit myself. Kids at my age often get intimidated by the idea of adulthood and feel like they have to know exactly who they are and what they want to do with their lives. I've realized that it's okay to take my time figuring it out and exploring different aspects of myself instead of fixating on one idea of who I am.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • Time
  • Different
  • Important

• Beyond happiness or unhappiness, though it is both things, love is intensity; it does not give us eternity but life, that second in which the doors of time and space open just a crack: here is there and now is always.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Life
  • Time
  • Space

• When you've got four people to get dressed to get out the door you don't really spend a lot of time on yourself. But that's the way I roll anyway. I was never one to do my hair and make-up just to go to the market, so it's not that much different. If I get a little eye cream on, I feel I'm ahead of myself.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Over the course of my career as both an actress and an author, I have met many wanna-bes. I distinguish the wannas from the gonnas because the WBs all think someone else is to blame for their problems. ... By contrast, GBs say: 'What? There's no door here? I'll build one.

  

  K Callan
  • Thinking
  • Career
  • Responsibility

• It is more important to let a child's imagination develop than it is to labor to inculcate in him or her some correct ethical point of view.

  

  Padraic Colum
  • Important
  • Imagination

• On so many levels [S.E. Cupp]’s a perfect demonstration of the necessity of the work Planned Parenthood does.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Work
  • Perfect
  • Demonstration

• The best advice I have is keep writing, keep practicing, keep winning, losing and understanding the difference. Never stop learning, never stop pushing yourself. Then find yourself a team you can work well with and help make awesome things happen.

  

  Rhianna Pratchett
  • Writing
  • Learning
  • Understanding

• Every July, August and part of September I escape of the guitar, I escape of Paco de Lucia and I go to Mexico to the Carrabian. I have a little house there where I spend two months listening to music, no playing because I don't bring the guitar with me, fishing and cooking my fish and charging the batteries for new concerts.

  

  Paco de Lucía
  • Music
  • House
  • Player

• I think the future is intrinsically linked with our universal human problems. In fact, it's these very problems, and how we deal with them, which will determine our future.

  

  Alexander Weinstein
  • Future
  • Problems
  • Determine

• Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door.

  

  Charles Finch
  • Doors
  • Adulthood
  • Delinquents