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

• I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor.

  

  Elon Musk
  • California

• All our efforts must tend towards light.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Light
  • Efforts

• Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Power
  • True
  • Dream

• Sometimes my whole life seems like a dream; occasionally I think that someone else has lived it for me. The events and the sensations, the stories and the things that make me what I am in the eyes of other people, the list of facts that make my life ... They could be mine, they might be yours.

  

  Sebastian Faulks
  • People
  • Dream
  • Sometimes

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

  

  Kate Orff
  • Dream
  • Delicious