Beatrice Wood Quotes
But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
Quotes to Explore
-
Everything I do, I go to black people. If I have a problem at the airport, I'll go to the black ticket agent. I hope they notice me because I'll get better service. If I'm at a restaurant, I look for the black waiter. Rent-a-Car, give you the upgrade.
-
It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
-
If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.
-
The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
-
A lot of guys try to mingle with me because of who I am. If I encounter a guy with a clean heart, I will go by my instincts. I guess my man won't be from the film industry.
-
The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.
-
I feel like people who know me, my fans, I want them to know I'm just a regular 21-year-old kid who likes movies, who likes to have fun. It lets people see the other side of you and not just the basketball thing.
-
The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
-
I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
-
Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.
-
What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.
-
I think to do a proper independent movie, in my experience, it takes 22 or 23 days to shoot. That was 'Party Girl' or 'House of Yes.' But now with the digital camera, the budgets have gotten smaller, and the days have gotten shorter.
-
I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.
-
Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.
-
The strong desire to include every vital component of life instead of excluding part of them for the sake of too narrow and dogmatic an approach has characterized my whole life.
-
We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.
-
I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.
-
If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
-
You've got to stop whipping a dead horse sometime.
-
The message would be that the purpose of life is not to eat and drink, watch television and so on. Consuming is not the aim of life. Earning as much money as one can is not the real purpose of life. There is a superior entity, a divinity, le divin as we say in French that is worth thinking about, as are our feelings of wholeness, respect and love, if we can. A society in which these feelings are widespread would be more reasonable than the society the West presently lives in.
-
I'm really boring. I get up early. I go to bed early. I don't smoke or drink. I mean, I'll eat a cupcake. I'm just not a crazy, stay-out-all-night sort of person. I love writing.
-
Never wound a snake; kill it.
-
When you're young, it's so easy to get bull-dozed.
-
But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
