Eglantyne Jebb Quotes

Relief work does not consist entirely in wearisome appeals ... it has its moments of enchantment, its adventures, its unexpected vistas into new worlds

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• I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Love
  • You
  • Just

• The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Relationship

• It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • World
  • Different
  • Find

• I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Style
  • Care

• I was chosen for 'Wolverine' because there weren't any other Japanese actresses available who could speak English. With 'Batman v Superman' and 'Hannibal,' I got the roles as a result of previous work I'd done, not just because of my nationality.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Work
  • Done
  • English

• They hate whom they fear.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • Fear
  • Hate
  • Whom

• Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.

  

  Zendaya
  • Important
  • You
  • Just

• Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Today
  • Free
  • Choices

• I trained as a dancer when I was much younger, for a large amount of time, like 6 or 7 years. Not to be a ballet dancer, actually, but I thought it was a complement for an actor. I thought that actors should know how to move, should know how to juggle, should know how to do acrobatics.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Time
  • Know
  • Thought

• Being married to a footballer is some girls' dream, but it isn't always like that. I work.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Always

• In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave.

  

  Naomi Weisstein
  • People
  • Important
  • You

• I often attribute my screenwriting to journalism because they drill in the who, what, when, where and why - but we really need to land on that why. That's what I've been exploring in my writing for many years and trying to get better at.

  

  Mara Brock Akil
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Why

• ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Car
  • Days
  • Nose

• Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • She
  • Looking
  • Lady

• For me, if I have the choice between an extra 45 minutes in bed or getting up at 4:30 A.M. to go to the gym, I will always choose bed.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Up
  • Me
  • Choice

• I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • Life
  • Work
  • Start

• It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Time
  • Past
  • Action

• We cannot disguise hostility towards any religion behind the pretence of liberalism.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Religion
  • Liberalism
  • Hostility

• I will tell you with 100 percent confidence, Jon Jones is not deep in my head. The fact he actually thinks that, it makes me smile every day.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Day
  • Confidence
  • Deep

• If you have a vision and you are trying to accomplish something, you have to be competitive, or things are going to slip by you.

  

  Peter M. Brant
  • Trying
  • Vision

• We must show there is good in society. If you read the newspapers, you think there are only crooks in this world, but that's not true.

  

  Kallam Anji Reddy
  • World
  • Good
  • True

• As a journalist, if you want to explore the world, you have to take a risk.

  

  Najibullah Quraishi
  • World
  • Want
  • Risk

• Everyone has the gift of laughter inside of them. All the world is a prop.

  

  Carrot Top
  • World
  • Laughter
  • Props

• Relief work does not consist entirely in wearisome appeals ... it has its moments of enchantment, its adventures, its unexpected vistas into new worlds

  

  Eglantyne Jebb
  • World
  • Moments
  • Adventure