Denison Witmer Quotes

I think I'm attracted to the mystics, to seeing needs in the world. I'm attracted to caring for people who are disenfranchised. I'm attracted to getting rid of worldly possessions.

Denison Witmer

• Caring
• Possessions
• Mystics
• Disenfranchised

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• My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Time
  • Different
  • Done

• In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Children
  • Kids
  • House

• I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Myself
  • Look
  • Appearance

• I'm so appreciative that people have begun to recognize my work in a way where it can afford me more opportunities.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Work
  • Opportunities

• We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Take
  • Wave
  • Mother`s

• I want to be a better person in every aspect. I really don't feel I've in anyway fulfilled my potential in every area of my life. But I'm optimistic.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Optimistic

• There are no innocent people in the Gaza Strip. Everyone has a connection to Hamas. Everyone receives a salary from Hamas. Those who are trying to challenge us at the border and breach it belong to Hamas’s military wing.

  

  Avigdor Lieberman
  • People
  • Trying
  • Challenge

• Until the artist is dead, we are not able to determine his work in all its dimensions.

  

  Anselm Kiefer
  • Work

• The chances of anyone of any race getting their own show are, like, .001 percent.

  

  Cristela Alonzo

• Maggie Smith is an amazing woman, and not as serious in real life.

  

  Allen Leech
  • Life
  • Real
  • Amazing

• I've learned to recognize, a lot of it forced through the process of recovery, that I'm wired wrong in certain ways; the chemical balance of my brain is off in terms of depression a little bit.

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Brain
  • Balance
  • Depression

• We all have our own narrative of what human trafficking is supposed to be, but if you do a little research, human trafficking happens, in many different forms and shapes, right in our backyard.

  

  Du Yun
  • Different

• The absence of state capacity - that is, of the services and protections that people in rich countries take for granted - is one of the major causes of poverty and deprivation around the world.

  

  Angus Deaton
  • People
  • World
  • Poverty

• When I watch a movie, I don't want to see the extra bits.

  

  Ben Lewin
  • Movie

• Well, first of all, we've got to get away from being offended by the truth. We've seen a 41 percent increase in food stamp recipients across the United States of America since President Obama was sworn in in January 2009. That has nothing to do with black, white, Hispanic or whatever. It's a fact, and we need to, you know, deal with that.

  

  Allen West
  • Truth
  • America
  • Black

• In a funny way, when things went wrong in my life - and it is my fault that they went wrong, it is not anyone else's fault - and all the glittering outside things were taken away, I was left with the things of most value.

  

  Kimberly Quinn
  • Life
  • Funny
  • Taken

• When it comes to spending, I don't splash out on fancy cars - I never have. I'm not a car man and, in fact, don't even drive. Although I own a vehicle - it only cost £3,000, and I can't even tell you the make - friends are kind enough to drive me around. It doesn't make sense to waste lots of money on cars.

  

  Eric Bristow
  • Money
  • Friends
  • Car

• Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.

  

  Charles Dudley Warner
  • Life
  • Men
  • May

• I have spent days and nights camped out in tents with fellow protesters; I have led demonstrations in the streets facing the threat of mortars, missiles and gunfire; I have struggled to build a movement for democratic change - all while caring for my three young children.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Children
  • Caring

• The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.

  

  Georges Rouault
  • Pleasures
  • Possessions
  • Richness

• When I was 20, my mother died and I went off the rails a little bit. I kinda had my slightly dark period.

  

  James McCartney
  • Mother
  • Dark
  • Period

• Television was our chief tool in selling our policy.

  

  Richard N. Haass
  • Television
  • Selling
  • Propaganda

• I think I'm attracted to the mystics, to seeing needs in the world. I'm attracted to caring for people who are disenfranchised. I'm attracted to getting rid of worldly possessions.

  

  Denison Witmer
  • Caring
  • Possessions
  • Mystics