Erskine Caldwell Quotes

Influence is a very tenuous matter. I try to avoid it in every respect. I don't want to be influenced by anybody.

Erskine Caldwell

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• I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • God
  • Why
  • Problem

• I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.

  

  Barbara McClintock
  • Great
  • Pleasure
  • Plants

• Young people really want you to give them a road map, and they will follow it to a tee. If you tell them, 'These are the eight steps you have to take to be successful,' they will do all eight very earnestly.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Road
  • Successful

• I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Mind
  • Personality

• I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Love
  • Cooking
  • Gardening

• Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Up
  • Job
  • Dream

• By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Science
  • Faith
  • Achievement

• I've been in many auditions thinking, 'God, do I have to take my shirt off?'

  

  Sam Heughan
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Take

• The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • World
  • Important
  • Friends

• I studied at UC Santa Cruz before going on to do a grad program at UCLA. Santa Cruz was like an awesome hippie summer camp. I got to take a vacation from reality and hang out on beaches and in forests.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Reality
  • Summer
  • Awesome

• I never thought that I'd be dancing with Shia LaBeouf. When I heard he was going to be my partner, I was like, 'Does he even dance?' He doesn't, really, but he's such a sweet person.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Dance
  • Thought
  • Sweet

• You step over the threshold of your parents' home, and you're instantly transported back to your childhood. It's like time travel. You revert at once to a place of arrested development.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Time
  • Home
  • Parents

• All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Great

• I was a B.I.G. fan. I like all of his stuff. I don't really have a favorite song. They all are good, and each brings different memories to me. And you can still listen to it to this day and it means something.

  

  Martin Lawrence
  • Good
  • Different
  • Song

• There were a lot of really special moments for me. When I first sang 'Fix You' by Coldplay, that was one. I love that song so much, and I love Coldplay, and I love what the song meant.

  

  Brynn Cartelli
  • Song
  • Moments

• A lot of my friends who are white are like, 'Dude, I can't get an audition; it's all Hispanic and black.' It's about time.

  

  J. R. Ramirez
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Black

• The people and opportunities your business needs are out there, but the only way to uncover them is to take an active role in bringing your social network to life.

  

  Lewis Howes
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• If my history, my indisputable British history, has never been visited, where does that put me? If we are only going to look at things that need a revisit, you are wiping me out of this country's history. That is unacceptable to me.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • Country
  • History

• I feel like when I say something sad, I mean it.

  

  Kurt Vile
  • Sad

• I am in favor of economic freedom, but I am not a conservative.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Freedom

• With the lights out, It's less dangerous. Here we are now, Entertain us. I feel stupid, And contagious. Here we are now. Entertain us.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Feel
  • Stupid
  • Dangerous

• Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • World
  • Parents
  • Influence

• Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • People
  • Respect
  • Friendship

• Influence is a very tenuous matter. I try to avoid it in every respect. I don't want to be influenced by anybody.

  

  Erskine Caldwell
  • Respect
  • Influence