Leigh Hunt Quotes

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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

• (After terrorist attacks in Mumbai) Terrorism is impossible to be stopped at all time. We will stop 99% of the attacks; 1% of the attacks will get through. You feel US has stopped all terrorist attacks? US is currently involved in Afghanistan and Iraq, where there are attacks every single day. On them. Not in US, but on them. The war has moved.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • Time
  • War
  • Stop

• I'm very genetically blessed; I cannot deny it, but I work hard at keeping myself together. Yes, I have nice cheekbones and skinny legs, but I can't take any credit for it.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • Work
  • Together
  • Nice

• I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Friends
  • Convinced
  • Trust In God

• Low self esteem is a delusion, and it can cause people to have many maladjustments in life.

  

  Abraham J. Twerski
  • Self-Esteem
  • Delusion
  • Maladjustments

• 'Step Brothers' itself, when I did it, I don't know if I had any idea that it would become a defining moment in my career and life like it has, and I'm really happy that that's the one that ended up being that for me.

  

  Adam Scott
  • Life
  • Up
  • Happy

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

  

  Leigh Hunt