Laura Mvula Quotes

I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.

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• Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Experience
  • Intellect
  • Dogma

• I made all my generals out of mud.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Made
  • Mud
  • Generals

• Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Fire
  • Safety
  • Year

• Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • History
  • Humanity
  • Language

• In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • World
  • Peace

• Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Time
  • Minds
  • Big

• I did ask Matt Damon for his autograph - and I got a picture, too!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Picture
  • Got
  • Ask

• You don't try to do more than you should.

  

  Karl Malone
  • You
  • Try
  • More

• A comic can be aesthetically beautiful. I think they captured it beautifully and accurately.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Think
  • Beautiful
  • Comic

• If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Chance

• My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Always
  • Sister
  • Very

• Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • You
  • Something
  • Aware

• I stay true because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character. It's the thing that connects him to me and to everybody else. So, the search is the same. It's to unveil the truth, and that's how I stay true, because my purpose isn't altered.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Character
  • Truth
  • True

• I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate.

  

  Kate Greenaway
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • People
  • High
  • Day

• Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Life
  • Way
  • Analysis

• Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.

  

  Hall Caine
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Church

• I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

  

  Edna O'Brien
  • Long
  • Catholic
  • Irish

• It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Friends
  • Stupid
  • Friendship

• One of the things I love about acting is that I can enter into these other people's lives. But going back to being me at the end of the day is very important, too. That process of remembering who I am.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Things
  • Acting

• Denial, panic, threats, anger - those are very human responses to feeling guilt.

  

  Joshua Oppenheimer
  • Anger
  • Guilt
  • Responses

• ... Speaking of which, the boys weren't actually touching the breifcases in the trunk, I hope?" Wondering how Milligan knew, Kate stuck her head out the office door and gave Reynie and Sticky a warning look. They nodded and tried to close the trunk as quietly as possible. "They aren't now anyway." "Good," Milligan said, picking up his duffel bag. "I'd hate to have to speak sternly to them again. It embarasses me to be so ineffective.

  

  Trenton Lee Stewart
  • Hate
  • Wonder
  • Speak

• I had worked for a lot of directors whose work I didn't respect, and as I was editing material, I was thinking about how I would have shot the scenes and what I would have done to make the scenes better. After several years of that, I got to the point that I was pretty confident I could sit in the director's chair.

  

  Lee Unkrich
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Done

• I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Respect
  • Look
  • Just