Deena Metzger Quotes

When Stories nestle in the body, soul comes forth.

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• I'm a firm believer in the Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights. I don't think you should infringe on the type of weapon somebody should buy or the number of rounds in a high-capacity magazine.

  

  Gabriel E. Gomez
  • High
  • Think
  • Bill Of Rights

• These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • People
  • American
  • Reality

• Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Rest
  • Ideas
  • Better

• Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Power
  • Genius
  • Innocence

• I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Up
  • Short
  • Chubby

• We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich.

  

  Karl Amadeus Hartmann
  • Known
  • Few
  • Munich

• I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Way
  • Like
  • Always

• As far as acting goes, you get to a certain point where, I think, everyone can do the job, and it comes down to a level of commitment. I think sometimes all you have to do is show up.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Up
  • Job
  • Acting

• When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic music. And it was only, I suppose, by the time Jethro Tull was getting underway that we did let the music begin to have a harder edge, in particular with the electric guitar being alongside the flute.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Time
  • Music
  • Rock

• I haven't really tried to write a movie. It's tough to get into that mode.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Movie
  • Write
  • Tough

• We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• Even one's own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There's nothing 'natural' about one's home these days. The furnishings, the fabrics, the furniture, the appliances, the TV, and all the electronic equipment - we're living inside commercials.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Home
  • Kind
  • Presentation

• There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Difficult
  • Nothing
  • Define

• I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Children
  • Love
  • Never

• I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Job
  • Know
  • Nervous

• Televisa is the largest media company in the Spanish-speaking world, and the steps we have taken, which extend the tenure of our exclusive access to Televisa's premium Spanish-language telenovelas, sports, sitcoms, reality series, news programs and feature films, put Univision in a stronger competitive position.

  

  Randy Falco
  • World
  • Reality
  • Taken

• On a personal level, I do a "brain dump" where everything that's in my head that needs doing gets written down. It gives your brain a rest. And then I give myself permission not to do everything on that list. I'm much more clear about my priorities: What are those moments of connection that are most important to me? Today is a busy workday but it's also a snow day, so I'm going cross-country skiing with my husband. And then I'll come back and finish my work., I do a brain dump where everything that's in my head that needs doing gets written down. It gives your brain a rest. And then I give myself permission not to do everything on that list. I'm much more clear about my priorities: What are those moments of connection that are most important to me? Today is a busy workday but it's also a snow day, so I'm going cross-country skiing with my husband. And then I'll come back and finish my work.

  

  Brigid Schulte
  • Personal level
  • Brain dump

• The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Father
  • Body
  • Force

• In fact, I don't even know myself. That is the big secret of the story. That there is no story.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Knows
  • Stories
  • Secret

• Authenticity is not an innate quality - that is, you are not born with it. Being an authentic leader is not something you can say about yourself; it must be attributed to you.

  

  Chip Espinoza
  • Quality
  • Leader
  • Authenticity

• When Stories nestle in the body, soul comes forth.

  

  Deena Metzger
  • Body
  • Stories
  • Forth