Debra Monroe Quotes

The advice I give is , "Don't think of your career as a plan or blueprint. Think of it as growing toward the most light. Keep your eyes open about where the best experiences are happening." Everyone wants to see how someone else managed, defying odds.

Debra Monroe

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• Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read?

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Thinking
  • Why
  • Kids

• The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Way
  • First
  • Champion

• It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• Kate Moss has great style.

  

  Yigal Azrouël
  • Great
  • Style
  • Moss

• Gods always behave like the people who make them.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • People
  • Like
  • Always

• Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Community
  • Action
  • Principle

• I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Time
  • Done
  • Business

• I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I'm from L.A. I'm an actor. I'm a flake.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Actor

• Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Life
  • Courage
  • Either

• The quality of instruction is very high at the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. It's not about being a rock star. It's about the fundamentals of music, theory and technique on a particular instrument, and playing in an ensemble or private setting.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Music
  • High
  • Quality

• As America's head coach, President Obama needs to make some big and smart adjustments to jump-start economic growth and business investment, stimulate job creation, and get wages up for ordinary Americans.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Up
  • Business
  • Job

• And the ability of citizens to organize and advocate for change - that's the oxygen upon which democracy depends.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Democracy

• The heath was victorious, keeping off on all sides. The common people were charmed, During time proceeding of the men. The oak, quickly moving, Before him, tremble heaven and earth. A valiant door-keeper against an enemy, his name is considered. The blue-bells combined, And caused a consternation. In rejecting, were rejected, Others, that were perforated

  

  Taliesin
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• Beauty? What's that?

  

  Larry Wall

• When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.

  

  Edward R. Murrow

• Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I'm a horrendous golfer, though I do enjoy it.

  

  Luke Combs
  • Enjoy
  • Golfer
  • Horrendous

• I learned a lot just watching people perform.

  

  Bill Hader
  • People

• I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Love

• I feel that Marco Polo has really been misrepresented - has never really gotten his due.

  

  John Fusco

• I've seen all of my mom's films. She's the reason why I do almost anything.

  

  Evan Ross
  • Reason
  • Films

• The best advice my mom has ever given me is to never give up. She believes when one door shuts, another door opens. Always, always move forward.

  

  Melissa Rivers
  • Believe
  • Giving
  • Moving

• The advice I give is , "Don't think of your career as a plan or blueprint. Think of it as growing toward the most light. Keep your eyes open about where the best experiences are happening." Everyone wants to see how someone else managed, defying odds.

  

  Debra Monroe
  • Advice
  • Happening
  • Odds