Kate Bornstein Quotes

Your life's work begins when your great joy meets the world's great hunger.

Kate Bornstein

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• Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Think
  • Act
  • Tyranny

• I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • True

• I am surrounded by great people.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Great

• The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Job
  • Red
  • Favourite

• I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Done
  • Happy
  • Think

• Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Mean
  • Morality
  • Paradox

• No, I think I used to be pretty superstitious about certain things, but I'm really not anymore. As long as I have everything is in order and I have my things as far as the match goes, shooting I'm fine. But I really don't.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • Long
  • Think
  • Pretty

• The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you, we as a people will get there.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Long
  • May

• 'I am a necromancer, but not of the common sort, while others of the art raise the dead, I lay them to rest - or try too - and those that will not rest I bind, for I am Abhorsen...' He turned to the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, 'Father of Sabriel.'

  

  Garth Nix
  • Art
  • Father
  • Rest

• Each time I'm training and sparring, I'm always pushing myself to submit my training partners.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Time
  • Training

• I don't think when I make love.

  

  Brigitte Bardot

• Let me say that I've never thought to conduct because the conductor has to think to the music before the orchestra. And the orchestra comes later. For me, it's terrible.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Music

• Some people think happiness is a luxury, but it's a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • People
  • Life
  • Space

• Quantum physics is a bit of a passion of mine. It's extraordinary. There's a branch of mathematics that is based on lunacy, and that's wonderful.

  

  Bob Hoskins
  • Passion

• Sometimes my backswing gets long, and I get in bad positions. The club also can get behind me coming down, so I have to flip my hands to catch up to my body.

  

  Louis Oosthuizen
  • Up
  • Long
  • Bad

• I'm always listening and watching; my ear is like a boom mike. And judging, frankly. Constantly judging.

  

  Kathy Griffin
  • Listening
  • Judging

• If there's a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it.

  

  Lauren Groff
  • Black
  • Path
  • Cat

• I love my bubble skirt. I wear it with a belt and my shirt tucked in. Just like a t-shirt from Nordstrom's or something. And I wear this navy blue blazer with the sleeves crushed up. And I just feel like I'm such a cool girl when I walk out. I feel like, 'Yeah I'm cool, like a model.'

  

  Keke Palmer
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Cool

• To me, writing is a considered act. It's something which is a great labor of thought and consideration.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Great
  • Writing

• Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Great
  • Characters
  • Fiction

• I realized that, for me, great records always moved me with the lyrics and the melodies. And so I said, 'I think I can do it now,' 'cause I found a team of people who understand I didn't want a record that was 'drop it, pop it, shake it' just 'cause I can dance.

  

  Laurieann Gibson
  • People
  • Great
  • Team

• After decades of declining influence on the affairs of the world, there is once again a widespread consideration of spritual principles as an antidote to the pain of our times.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Pain
  • Influence

• Your life's work begins when your great joy meets the world's great hunger.

  

  Kate Bornstein
  • World
  • Great
  • Hunger