Ellen Wittlinger Quotes

This is why I don't like to argue with people. You say things you don't mean. Or, you kind of mean them, but the way you say it sounds arrogant and hurtful.

Ellen Wittlinger

• Argue
• Hurtful
• Don't Mean

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• In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
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• We don't want to abandon any of the market we have now. We just want to gain new market.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Want
  • New
  • Now

• The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Heart
  • Singing
  • Voice

• I always hated perfect TV moms because I always thought that was unrealistic.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Perfect
  • Thought
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• When I was a boy in Salem, Mass., in the 1950s, if you wanted to buy a book, you had to take a train to Boston. And when you got there, to a bookstore, there was no such thing as a science-fiction section.

  

  Gardner Dozois
  • Book
  • Science
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• Hoover was incredibly ambitious as a young man. He was highly motivated to succeed in Washington, primarily due to his mother's expectations of him.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Mother
  • Motivated
  • Washington

• The inspiration comes from everywhere, from what I grew up with. There's so much silliness and nonsense in the world that we regard as normal working procedure. The satirical point of the view may be to counterpoint that. The way we look at classics has been hijacked by the intelligentsia - Shakespeare is highbrow and seen as something clever people do, which isn't right at all. I basically pull inspiration from everywhere.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Inspiration
  • Grew Up
  • Shakespeare

• Each man believes only his experience.

  

  Empedocles
  • Experience
  • Believes

• You have to leave room for the other person's ego.

  

  Debbie Harry Blondie
  • Persons
  • Ego
  • Rooms

• A lot of Gorillaz songs were very personal. I mean, that's why it was interesting, because it wasn't music being made for a cartoon. It was something different. It was a much more emotional affair. I wasn't necessarily thinking in the third-person then.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Interesting

• Before me, there were no moonsaults, there were no Litacanranas!

  

  Amy Dumas
  • Moonsaults
  • Litacanranas
  • Before Me

• It's painful, man, for my daughters to say they're scared of me.

  

  Tony Dorsett
  • Scared
  • Daughters

• It's OK to argue with your friends. Guys can do it better than girls, usually, but if you ever get into a fight with a true friend or a spouse or a boyfriend, get it out, fight, be angry for five minutes, and then move past it. Don't let it fester; don't hold a grudge. If you do, that's when it will get worse and worse.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Friends
  • True
  • Past

• I don't argue with my enemies; I explain to their children.

  

  Andre Malraux
  • Children
  • Enemies
  • Explain

• Only a fool would argue with a fool!

  

  Eric Jerome Dickey
  • Fool
  • Argue

• I do think that at a certain point, the reboot sequel mode has to give way to original ideas and back to a place where, you know, films are, you know, a medium and the cinema is a place you go to see something that is, you know, wholly new.

  

  J. J. Abrams

• This is why I don't like to argue with people. You say things you don't mean. Or, you kind of mean them, but the way you say it sounds arrogant and hurtful.

  

  Ellen Wittlinger
  • Argue
  • Hurtful
  • Don't Mean