Zooey Deschanel Quotes

I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.

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• Nothing external to you has any power over you.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Power
  • You
  • Nothing

• There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Day
  • Independent
  • Push

• My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Important
  • Children
  • Future

• I made all my generals out of mud.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Made
  • Mud
  • Generals

• Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Work
  • Lord
  • Interested

• I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to development and unfortunately we have 40 percent of the population poor; we have a per capita income that is extremely low.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Different
  • Development
  • Percent

• Anybody, and any company, can have a big run of success once, but if you're going to repeat that over time, you need to be aware that you need to keep learning.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Time
  • Success
  • Learning

• Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Like
  • Relationships
  • Sure

• It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Son
  • Grandson
  • Landowner

• I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Give
  • Him
  • Immigrants

• Have you noticed the physical resemblance between Imran Khan and Gaddafi? If you were making a movie of the life of Gaddafi and you wanted a slightly better-looking version of Gaddafi, you might cast Imran Khan.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Movie
  • You

• Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Know

• I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Giving
  • Hate

• As we began working toward the finale of 'Lost,' I knew there was no possible ending that was going to be universally loved, and I accepted that. We ended the story the way we wanted it to end, and we stand by it. On my Twitter feed, I still get ten to fifteen positive comments for every negative one.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Lost
  • Positive
  • End

• The function of the killer and watching him - whatever that says about the world in which we live - it was always more about that world than it was about the actual watching.

  

  Aaron Yoo
  • World
  • Live
  • Always

• I'd never stop traveling, and I love bringing my family along with me. My children have points of reference everywhere, friends from Milan to Los Angeles. I think it's really fun for them.

  

  Valeria Mazza
  • Children
  • Family
  • Friends

• When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Eyes
  • Look
  • Birds

• If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • People
  • Women
  • Suffering

• Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Men
  • Childhood
  • Early

• It's a lot easier to see, at least in some cases, what the long-term limits of the possible will be, because they depend on natural law. But it's much harder to see just what path we will follow in heading toward those limits.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Long
  • Law
  • Path

• I'll be honest with you, one of the things that frustrated me the most out the record leak thing, it had nothing to do with record sales - I mean, that's a joke. Has anybody looked at how many records anybody sells anymore? If you're not Jay-Z, a record leaking isn't going to affect you. It was just really personal.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Record
  • Sales
  • Frustrated

• Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of them right.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • You
  • Like
  • Directing

• Oh, a man with a guitar is nothing compared to a man with a cello! Girls really like the way that we handle our instruments.

  

  Eino Matti "Eicca" Toppinen Apocalyptica
  • Men
  • Girl
  • Way

• I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Like
  • Guitar
  • Awesome