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

• 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

• 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

• This idea that you can watch a show like 'True Detective,' and it was awesome, but is it really ruined for you if the finale is not your favorite episode of it? It's just odd to me.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • True
  • Idea
  • Favorite

• When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Career
  • Focus
  • Look

• I think about the question of perspective in reporting all the time, and since I spent 20 years of my career in Washington as both a reporter and an editor I'm keenly aware that a newspaper should not be dominated by stories in which the only voices and perspective come from those in power.

  

  Jill Abramson
  • Time
  • Power
  • Career

• Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington.

  

  John Boehner
  • People
  • Business
  • American

• Each day, you can awake and focus on small, easy goals you can accomplish in the short term - goals that, over time, will lead you to your long-term goal.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Time
  • Long
  • Small

• You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • You
  • Know
  • Never

• I had learned classical guitar when I was a kid, and I embraced it, and apparently I got good at it.

  

  Andy Rourke Pretenders
  • Good

• 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