Gemma Cairney Quotes

I live in a mind melt of different situations, through my work and social life - I wouldn't have it any other way.

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• I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Problem
  • Yourself
  • Calm

• These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Support
  • Become
  • Immigrants

• We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Think
  • Future
  • Party

• The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • Fear
  • Choice

• We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Together
  • Friendship

• I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.

  

  Eddie Floyd
  • Band
  • Rest
  • Year

• It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Women
  • History
  • Vote

• Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Reading
  • Joy

• You never get the Shakespeares right. It's not possible.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • You
  • Right
  • Possible

• Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

  

  Gale Norton
  • Why
  • Government
  • Environment

• The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • Men
  • Future

• Big Internet companies on average are capable of generating revenue of $1 million per employee, and that compares to 10 to 20 percent of that which is normally generated by traditional offline businesses of comparable size.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Internet
  • Size
  • Employee

• I was fooling everyone by surrounding myself with funny people. But then I put myself out there - writing my own sketches, going on stage with nobody surrounding me - and for some reason people were still laughing.

  

  Carly Craig
  • People
  • Writing
  • Funny

• So for us any gain we had in election, one vote that we got, was a win.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Win
  • Vote
  • Election

• To begin with, Congress should act to make sure no one on a no-fly list is able to buy a gun. What could possibly be the argument for allowing a terrorist suspect to buy a semi-automatic weapon? This is a matter of national security.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Fly
  • Gun

• No visitors shall yonder valley find. Except the spirits of the rain and wind: Here you must bide, my friends, with me entombed In this dim crypt, where shelved around us lie The mummied authors.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Friends
  • Wind
  • Rain

• 'And, anyway, no matter how much you may behave like the deaf adder of Scripture which, as you are doubtless aware, the more one piped, the less it danced, or words to that effect, I shall carry on as planned. '

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • May
  • Words
  • Scripture

• The air of one’s native country is the most healthy air.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Country
  • Air

• I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I said.

  

  Alan Greenspan

• Many years ago, large packs of wolves roamed the countryside in Ukraine, making travel in that part of the world very dangerous. These wolf packs were fearless. They were not intimidated by people nor by any of the weapons available at that time. The only thing that seemed to frighten them was fire.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• If you were to ask me to pick my favourite author, well, there are so many of them, I'd really just have to say the first names that came to mind, and I'm sure that I'll later think 'Oh, I should have mentioned that one.'

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Me

• It has crossed my mind that I would like to run or help to run a pro women's tournament, although I really don't know much about organizing an event (it seems overwhelming actually).

  

  Jennifer Wyatt
  • Women
  • Mind
  • Help

• The mobile middle class gravitates to the cities where housing is affordable.

  

  Virginia Postrel
  • Cities
  • Class
  • Housing

• I live in a mind melt of different situations, through my work and social life - I wouldn't have it any other way.

  

  Gemma Cairney
  • Mind
  • Way
  • Social