Leigh Hunt Quotes

Oh for a seat in some poetic nook,Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!

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• Terrorism will spill over if you don't speak up.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Up
  • You
  • Speak

• Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Me
  • Fame

• I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Reason

• It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Work
  • Ideas
  • Humility

• Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Great
  • She
  • Body

• I've been making a diary of the daft things people have said during London Fashion Week, and it does wear a little bit thin, everyone comparing my name to Edie Sedgwick.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Week

• If I am not right for something there are many talented actors out there that will get it.

  

  Tara Strong
  • Actors
  • Talented

• I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Day
  • Teacher
  • Tree

• I hope they can see that as a consumer, if they express themselves, they may make an impact and leverage their impact on the brands, and the brands can leverage their buying power on tens of thousands of polluters - suppliers - in China.

  

  Ma Jun
  • May
  • Power
  • Hope

• My rule is that if I interview someone, they should never read what I have to say about them and regret having given me the interview.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Never
  • Regret
  • Read

• The reason why bookstores are going out of business in the States is that people just can't focus on longer narratives now - even narrative film is in crisis in many ways, unless it's an adventure film.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • People
  • Why
  • Business

• I'll probably have to open a recording studio at some point because I won't be able to pay the bills.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Point
  • Open
  • Bills

• If you were an alien who came to our bookstores - or browsed our teen magazines - you'd think that only Earth girls who look like Mila Kunis ever got any action.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Earth
  • Action
  • Alien

• I am honoured to have been chosen for an Amitabh Bachchan film.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Film
  • Chosen
  • Honoured

• What I learned with tech companies is I gotta give people room to experiment, and also to make what might later on be a mistake. This is the attitude I want to build within San Francisco - give some time to the tech community.

  

  Ed Lee
  • People
  • Time
  • Community

• A lot of Playmates look like Playmates, but I look so girl-next-door and wholesome.

  

  Karen McDougal
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Door

• The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Diversity
  • Loss
  • Forgive

• I'm easy to hate.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Hate
  • Easy

• It takes a long time to become young.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Time
  • Long
  • Young

• Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares not but exert himself; and if, in his words, he has any excess, he dares not allow himself such license.

  

  Confucius
  • Practice
  • Virtues
  • License

• I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?

  

  Adriana Trigiani
  • Life
  • Why
  • Excellence

• By 2029, computers will have emotional intelligence and be convincing as people.

  

  Ray Kurzweil
  • Emotional
  • Intelligence
  • Computers

• Oh for a seat in some poetic nook,Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!

  

  Leigh Hunt