Patrick Henry Quotes

My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.

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• I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.

  

  Fay Wray
  • People
  • Life
  • Care

• I'm a total people pleaser.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • People
  • Total
  • Pleaser

• I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Think
  • Way
  • Singing

• Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Africa

• It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.

  

  Ralph Chaplin
  • World
  • Believe
  • Earth

• I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Think
  • Me

• The military executes policy decisions.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Military
  • Decisions
  • Policy

• It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Me
  • Writer
  • Encouraged

• The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• The Metropolitan Opera, of course, is the gold standard in opera. The Met experience includes the huge stage, the vast audience, the elaborate sets. Anyone who saw 'Faust' there - I did - knows exactly what hell is like, complete with fire, smoke and terror.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Experience
  • Fire
  • Gold

• When people say I have become a celebrity, I remind them of fame's flip side. For instance, if I want to watch a movie in a cinema, I have to enter through a side exit just before the film begins and leave by the same exit before the credits roll.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • People
  • Movie
  • Same

• I have a difficult time sitting down for long periods.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Time
  • Long
  • Down

• I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.

  

  Faran Tahir
  • People
  • Think
  • Science

• When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Different
  • Team
  • Rest

• I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Music
  • More
  • Planet

• One of the things that made the Internet so explosive and such an economic and intellectual force is because of the free-market enterprise in a country like the U.S. controlling access to it.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Country
  • Free
  • Force

• Stan is a rescue Chihuahua mix. He was the role model for Bob, the dog in 'Ivan.' The drawings in the book look precisely like Stan.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Book
  • Model
  • Dog

• Make-up is an extension of your clothes.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Up
  • Clothes
  • Your

• 'Paranormal Activity' had fifty versions because it was $250 to reshoot. We'd screen it, see one thing wrong, shoot for an hour, fix it, and then screen it again. You don't have to be disciplined about it. On a regular movie, you have to screen it and think of every problem, reshoot for three days and solve every problem, and then you're done.

  

  Jason Blum
  • Done
  • Movie

• But eventually it's a question of access: Getting access to fields is on top of the oil companies' agenda. We see a substantial build-up of supply occurring over the coming years.

  

  Daniel Yergin
  • Up
  • Question

• One of your greatest protections against making bad choices is to not put on any mask of anonymity.

  

  Quentin L. Cook
  • Bad
  • Choices

• Developing love and compassion and reducing anger and spite is a universal activity which requires no faith in any religion whatsoever

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Faith
  • Compassion

• Bubba shot the jukebox last night, said it played a sad song and it made him cry.

  

  Mark Chesnutt
  • Night
  • Said
  • Cry

• My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Father
  • Faith
  • Beginning