Kathy Calvin Quotes

Being poor is not like being a victim. Being poor means that you don't have one resource.

Kathy Calvin

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• You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Gay
  • Actor
  • Issues

• I think that's the ultimate sign of a teammate and respect is that they compete against one another so hard at practice that here's a chance to share some knowledge inside. It takes some humility to do that.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Knowledge
  • Respect
  • Practice

• But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Never
  • Take
  • Punishment

• Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • School
  • News
  • Gender

• In July, 1892, fate suddenly granted me financial independence.

  

  Carl Spitteler
  • Me
  • Financial
  • Fate

• Theatre is organic, film is not. Theatre you come every day and you work with a group of people and you're are all up for it and you all get to do the whole thing every night, be it two hours or three hours. In film you work in two or three minute bits and it's never in chronological order and then someone takes that away and makes it look like it all happened, or that you gave that performance.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Exposure to the arts and culture is enormously valuable.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Valuable

• As teachers, we must constantly try to improve schools and we must keep working at changing and experimenting and trying until we have developed ways of reaching every child.

  

  Albert Shanker
  • Trying
  • Changing
  • Teachers

• I think it's really important to enlarge the issue behind abortion. I have been serving for over two decades and I have seen year in and year out largely the Republicans voting against women's contraception, family planning.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Women

• I think part of growing up is not actually finding a fixed idea of who you are, but rather being like, "Oh, wait. I'm different all the time. I'm going to change every second and grow and be fluid." And that's okay.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • Up
  • Time
  • Different

• Went off to school, and learned to serve the state. Followed the rules, and drank his vodka straight. The only way to live was 'drown the hate'. The Russian life was very sad, and such was life in Leningrad.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Life
  • Live
  • School

• Of course, a woman's choice to go out into the world is a very significant thing. But part of real liberation is recognizing that mothering is every bit as important as other kinds of work. I actually believe it's more important than anything we do out in the world.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Work
  • Believe

• Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are.

  

  David O. Russell
  • Want
  • Be You

• Even when we do not create children's fears, when they come to us with fears ready-made and built-in, we use their fears as handles to manipulate them and get them to do what we want

  

  John Holt
  • Create
  • Fears
  • Manipulate

• He knew her now. She was the weird girl in the class above him, who dyed her hair pink and always wore a lot of pentragrams and crystals. Right now she was also wearing giant chandelier earings and a violent pink T-Shirt that bore the words ROMEO AND JULIET WOULDN'T HAVE LASTED.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Girl
  • Hair
  • Class

• Never fear a job, always respect it, and always leave yourself a hind door to escape. May your hind door always be open.

  

  Red Adair
  • May
  • Jobs
  • Doors

• Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight. And after I've finished "shooting," my unharmed victims are still around for others to enjoy. I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any more than those of humans.

  

  James Stewart
  • Giving
  • Animal
  • Pleasure

• I was an adult and I was in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. I was performing in this cave - they used to bury the plague victims in these caves underneath the streets of Edinburgh, when I got this weird cold sensation up my spine, it gave me this really weird feeling, and then I looked up and there was this white, sudden white shape, that just zapped from me and went straight to the light that was at the back of the room, and I just stopped cold and said to the audience, "Did you guys see that?" No one saw it.

  

  Rhys Darby
  • Feelings
  • Cold
  • Victim

• If you ask people where they go when they really need to get work done, very few will respond 'the office.' If they do say the office, they'll include a qualifier such as 'super-early in the morning before anyone gets in,' or 'I stay late at night after everyone's left,' or 'I sneak in on the weekend.'

  

  Jason Fried
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• Reagan said that government is not the solution to our problems, government is the problem. And he was going to dismantle that government. Well, long story short, he failed to do that. He built up the military to a much greater status, more people in it, and actually more employees after the end of the Reagan administration. And, to achieve his objectives, he did some of the very same things that Trump is doing to achieve his. What Ronald Reagan really wanted to dismantle was the welfare state. And he had limited success in doing that.

  

  Brian Balogh
  • Government
  • Problems
  • Solution

• Being poor is not like being a victim. Being poor means that you don't have one resource.

  

  Kathy Calvin
  • Victim
  • Resource