Patricia Ireland Quotes

I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.

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• I pledge to you today that for as long as I am your governor, I will not seek or accept any outside compensation from any source.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Source
  • Governor
  • Compensation

• Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Different
  • Think
  • Understanding

• I never had only one job. I was either playing ball or writing or doing TV or modeling.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Modeling

• I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Death
  • Government
  • Lying

• Researchers looked at news programs on major broadcast and cable networks between 2008 and 2012 and found that of those labeled as domestic terrorists, 81% were identifiable as Muslims - this despite the fact that FBI reports from the period studied revealed that only 6% of domestic terrorist suspects were Muslim.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Period
  • News
  • Fact

• In TV, you're always confused because you legitimately don't know what you're doing the next week.

  

  Lamorne Morris
  • Know
  • Week
  • Confused

• You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at least to be offered at least some of the opportunities, and libraries are the most simple and the most open way to give people access to books.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Know
  • Simple

• Everyone teases me in the family that I spend far too long chatting. So I think I've still got to learn a little bit more and to pick up a few more tips, I suppose.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Up
  • Long
  • Family

• Just try to get the puck and make plays, not so much worry about scoring or getting an assist or points, just try to get it and make plays. That should take care of itself.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Care
  • Worry
  • Take Care

• Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • You
  • Always
  • Win

• I think, I think we need a Republican president from the real world to remind ourselves sometimes of what we need to do.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • World
  • Real
  • Think

• I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• It's a voluntary act. I cannot punish anyone not taking the public transport, but I want everyone, from the highest ranking officers to the lowest, to take public transport every Wednesday.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Want
  • Act
  • Wednesday

• English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

  

  E. B. White
  • Education
  • Sometimes
  • English

• Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there's something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Father

• Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Writing
  • Choice
  • Tradition

• I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Up
  • Know
  • Thought

• Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Long
  • Problems
  • Ignore

• The ultimate aim in life should be to fulfill to the utmost all that within our ability and to share that which is good and beautiful.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Life
  • Good
  • Beautiful

• I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nation's economic viability.

  

  Jim Clyburn
  • Energy
  • Health

• When you start to really know someone, all his physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in his energy, recognize the scent of his skin. You see only the essence of the person,not the shell. That's why you can't fall in love with beauty. You can lust after it, be infatuated by it, want to own it. You can love it with your eyes and body but not your heart. And that's why, when you really connect with a person's inner self, any physical imperfections disappear, become irrelevant.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Heart
  • Why
  • Energy

• I guess my critics say, 'He must be crazy. Nothing can be that beautiful.' But when you think that there are so many people around the world who have nothing, you realize how lucky you are to be making a living in the big leagues.

  

  Ernie Banks
  • Think
  • Realize
  • Critics

• I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Think
  • Energy
  • Optimism