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

• There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Company

• 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

• Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Want
  • Respect
  • Dress

• 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

• I grew up around a whole bunch of girls, and one thing I realized is what they had on their plate was very different than what I had on mine. The things girls are made to be responsible for is a heavy burden - take care of your younger siblings, do good in school, have some extracurriculars. The pressure is intense.

  

  Jason Reynolds
  • Up
  • Good
  • Different

• Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Family
  • Business
  • Story

• Sometimes, I have themes that interest me or that touch on larger issues but, really, I'm just trying to figure out the plot, or how the characters work. I'm trying to make the best story I possibly can.

  

  Brian Selznick
  • Work
  • Trying

• It can't change anything immediately, but films can absolutely be catalysts for conversation.

  

  Debra Granik

• Well, better expelled and able to defend yourselves than sitting safely in school without a clue," said Sirius.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • School

• 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