Kate Orff Quotes

My dream is remaking and reforming a more sustainable, more livable, delicious future.

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• For my own part, I have been wont to converse with poverty; and however disagreeable a companion she may be thought to be by the affluent and luxurious, who were never acquainted with her, I can live happily with her the remainder of my life if I can thereby contribute to the redemption of my country.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Life
  • Live
  • Country

• I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Work
  • Think
  • Best

• I don't really see myself as an actor.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Myself
  • Actor
  • See

• You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Want
  • Hurt
  • Doing

• Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • World
  • Rise
  • Mental Illness

• When I started stand-up, the first thing I did was to take an improv class.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Up
  • First
  • Class

• I learned long ago that the most effective way to compete is to play your own game, and I've been competing with men my whole life.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Life
  • Men
  • Long

• It's very hard to get to the top. It's hardest to stay at the top.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Hard
  • Top
  • Stay

• When I leaf through Fackel issues of my slave years, I am seized by horror. Anyone released from bondage must feel like this.

  

  Elias Canetti

• There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

  

  Marie Curie
  • Truth

• 'It became like a symbolic thing, to be 'an artist.' After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.'

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Attitude

• Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.

  

  Azar Nafisi
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• Being a songwriter, my job is just to write songs for people. I'm not attached to them.

  

  Jason Boyd
  • People
  • Job

• I have that precious commodity - freedom. I can live my life a day at a time, and I am open to whatever the next day brings. I know I sound as if I have been off with some guru in India, but I haven't. I've come to realise the value of being able to decide for oneself.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• I'm so happy with my family, my career and my friends, and I'd like for them to be here forever, so I guess loss is what scares me the most.

  

  Jared Padalecki
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Happy

• When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction, and I don't think that is the case now. And it's a place where people still kid themselves - you know, in a few years this will happen or that will happen. Well, it's not going to happen. It's never going to happen.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • People

• I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked.

  

  Marguerite Moreau
  • Life
  • Character
  • Experience

• Not even my excellent training at Juilliard prepared me for my first movie role, where I played a transsexual who falls in love with a military guy in 'Soldier's Girl.'

  

  Lee Pace
  • Movie
  • Guy
  • Girl

• Every girl has days when she doesn't like her appearance, but it's when you feel happy in yourself that you look good.

  

  Hannah Tointon
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Girl

• Republicans are for clean water, clean air, and clean energy. We are not for taxing people out of their house, home and business to pay for it. And that is the fundamental difference between the Democrats and Republicans on this issue.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • People
  • Home
  • Business

• Most diets would have you cutting things out from your diet; they are about denial and discipline.

  

  Kathy Freston
  • Discipline
  • Cutting

• I am, you know, really fighting for myself and my life. And I think the message that I could give to anybody is that it's never too late to start your life again and dream new dreams.

  

  Jennifer Holliday
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Fighting

• Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Truth
  • Dream
  • Arguments

• My dream is remaking and reforming a more sustainable, more livable, delicious future.

  

  Kate Orff
  • Dream
  • Delicious