Colleen Patrick-Goudreau Quotes

Don't do nothing because you can't do everything. Do something. Anything.

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

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• Dramas make me laugh. The other day, I saw 'The Place Beyond the Pines,' and I was giggling the whole time. I laugh when I'm uncomfortable.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Time
  • Day
  • Laugh

• In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Why
  • Kids
  • Parents

• I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • People
  • Done
  • Progress

• The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Desire
  • Pain
  • Responsibility

• It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Up
  • Great
  • Country

• When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • Never
  • Theory

• I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God. You know, going to the mosque, the ritual and the tradition, it's just not in me to do. So I don't do it.

  

  Ice Cube
  • God
  • Myself
  • Islam

• Good material is good material.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Good
  • Material

• The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.

  

  Edmund White
  • Like
  • Always
  • Driver

• One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Earth
  • Destiny
  • Own

• I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • Kind
  • Kid
  • Shy

• The Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations all fell victim to chronically relying on Beijing's empty promises with the distant hope that China would finally use its influence to reign in Pyongyang's provocative behavior, to no avail.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Hope
  • Influence
  • Promises

• Great necessities call out great virtues.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Great
  • Virtues
  • Call

• Set realistic goals, keep re-evaluating, and be consistent.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Goals
  • Consistent
  • Realistic

• I'm not ashamed of it, but people would think I'm ashamed of Bieber. I got Bieber on my iPod.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • People
  • Think
  • Got

• I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Good
  • Happen
  • Good Things

• As far as I'm concerned... there's a side to an actor that wants to go on and play a thousand different roles.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Different
  • Play
  • Actor

• I like routine.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Like
  • Routine

• There's nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Better
  • Goals
  • Achieving

• Without there being some national strategy, it is difficult for educators to know what kinds of engineers or technicians to produce and for potential students to know what professions to study for.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Study
  • Strategy
  • Potential

• The world is always waiting for someone to save the day, make things better. We've lost hope in politics, preachers. ... As a child of God, I just believe that Jesus is our hero, he is the one that came to save man's life, to save man's soul, to restore people back to themselves with a love that's real - an unconditional sacrificial love.

  

  Kirk Franklin
  • People
  • Children
  • Love

• Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.

  

  Idries Shah
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Anything

• There are things we could do like let Brad Dourif play Charles Lee Ray's brother or father , something like that, but I think any of those options would've been squarely in the horror-comedy realm.

  

  David Kirschner
  • Father
  • Brother
  • Something

• Don't do nothing because you can't do everything. Do something. Anything.

  

  Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
  • Something
  • Anything
  • To Do