Warren MacKenzie Quotes

I think back to some of the pots we made when we first started our pottery, and they were pretty awful pots. We thought at the time they were good; they were the best we could make, but our thinking was so elemental that the pots had that quality also, and so they don't have a richness about them which I look for in my work today. Whether I achieve it all the time, that's another question, because I don't think a person can produce at top level 100 percent of the time.

Warren MacKenzie

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• Women can drive progress towards the central goals of mine action, which aims to increase security, rebuild communities, reclaim land and end the looming fear caused by explosive remnants of war.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Women
  • War
  • Fear

• Before I got married, I dated the gamut.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Married
  • Before
  • Got

• A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Painting
  • Creative
  • Soup

• And I've always believed in what Martin Luther King, Jr. called 'the fierce urgency of now' - we should not fear change, we should embrace it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Fear
  • King
  • Fierce

• Anxiety grew, the fear that always comes when an established pattern falters.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Fear
  • Anxiety

• If you think you know all the secrets, you think you know all the cures.

  

  Colum McCann

• I will play my part by singing the spirit into every open heart.

  

  Robert Dwayne Womack
  • Heart
  • Singing

• I'm definitely someone who enjoys life and wakes up with a ball of energy.

  

  Pitbull
  • Life
  • Up
  • Energy

• I still find the idea of a research-heavy or historical novel daunting. That's something I've had in mind for a while: like, would you research for a year and then start writing? I sit down, and I just don't know how to write it.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Writing
  • Mind

• I get if you're a conservative, and you're saying, I don't know, 'Government shouldn't be mandating what's taught in classrooms,' or, 'Government is too intrusive in our economic life,' well, that's standard conservatism.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • Life

• In a way, I feel obliged to respect Jean Rouch because I am told he is very important.

  

  Claire Denis
  • Important
  • Respect

• The community in which one hears the voice of God structures how one hears that voice and interprets what it says.

  

  David Novak
  • God
  • Community

• Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon.

  

  Compay Segundo Buena Vista Social Club
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Grandparents

• When I was a child, I probably should have been medicated about my obsession with The Spice Girls. I had the Buffalo shoes, a customised Baby Spice necklace - when I say custom-made, it was made out of plastic from the local mall - and a Union Jack dress.

  

  Blake Lively
  • Baby
  • Shoes

• I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as '40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past.

  

  Alan Furst
  • Past

• I think my thing is I grew up in the ghetto, and I was able to get a second chance. That's what I'm trying to tell kids.

  

  Master P
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Kids

• The first time I was paparazzi'd, I thought I was being investigated for an insurance claim.

  

  Portia de Rossi
  • Time
  • Insurance

• To really understand what love is, you've kinda got to dig down deeper than just how you feel at the moment.

  

  Kirk Cameron

• Jesus did not become the 'GodKlingon' or the 'GodMartian'! Only descendants of Adam can be saved. God's Son remains the 'Godman' as our Savior.

  

  Ken Ham
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Son

• I think the heartbreak of September 11 - America's grief not only over the loss of life but also the loss of our own innocence -has expanded us as people because it has tenderized our hearts. On a psychological level, the American people have matured as a result of that awful day.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Life
  • American

• I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'

  

  Maurice Sendak

• I think back to some of the pots we made when we first started our pottery, and they were pretty awful pots. We thought at the time they were good; they were the best we could make, but our thinking was so elemental that the pots had that quality also, and so they don't have a richness about them which I look for in my work today. Whether I achieve it all the time, that's another question, because I don't think a person can produce at top level 100 percent of the time.

  

  Warren MacKenzie