Kate Elliott (Alis A. Rasmussen) Quotes

We are bound to our ancestors and to those who made us, whether we want to be or not. What matters is what we make of what we are.

Kate Elliott

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• When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Music
  • Way
  • Looking

• I never wrote my books especially for children.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Children
  • Never
  • Books

• I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Myself
  • Hurt
  • Diabetes

• I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Job
  • Help

• I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Business
  • Pretty
  • Dream

• My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five, so my education was in Australia, and I always felt I was Australian even though my passport was British.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Father
  • Education
  • College

• I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Good
  • Like
  • Expect

• I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Up
  • Home
  • Strong

• Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • You
  • Lie
  • Others

• Read, read, read, read and then read some more.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • More
  • Read
  • Then

• Retired life's good, man.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Man

• We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Interesting
  • Humanity
  • Human

• I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Great
  • American
  • Game

• It's so important just to be true to yourself and to own your own character and take responsibility for it, and speak up and say, This isn't right; this isn't me.' It's a great lesson, not just in wrestling but in life. If you're not feeling something that's true to your heart... everybody's gotta be true.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• Dolly Parton made me chicken and dumplings. That Tennessee woman can burn some pots! And we know that I am not necessarily shy to a fork!

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Shy
  • Burn
  • Dolly Parton

• You have to determine what you are and send the messages out to people, like, 'Hey, I'm a screenwriter - look at this.' You can't sit around, wondering why people aren't calling and asking about my writing.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Writing
  • Why

• When I met Dante I didn't work in the movies, but I enjoyed so much the movies. I worked in interior design and when I met Dante, we tried to do something together.

  

  Francesca Lo Schiavo
  • Work
  • Together
  • Design

• I believe in much more diplomacy, not less.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Believe
  • More
  • Diplomacy

• Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Power
  • Black
  • Same

• I love playing rock music, man. You give me a guitar in my hands, and I go out there, and, for me, it's like...you know, some dudes like hunting, fishing, going out and playing ball in the backyard with their buddies on a rainy day. I like being out with my buddies playing rock guitar. That's what I love to do.

  

  Robby Takac Goo Goo Dolls
  • Music
  • Man
  • Playing

• Sometimes we get wrapped up in all the fancy things. But don’t expect life to be perfect. It don’t come with static cling.

  

  Boyz II Men
  • Life
  • Cling
  • Wrapped up

• I get very nervous in un-trodden territory but it's important to keep doing it just to prove to myself that I can do it.

  

  Yasmin Paige
  • Important

• My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Ideas
  • Matter
  • Rather

• We are bound to our ancestors and to those who made us, whether we want to be or not. What matters is what we make of what we are.

  

  Kate Elliott
  • Matter
  • Made
  • Bounds