Leighton Meester Quotes

I've learned to let things roll off my back.

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• If something is mine, then I want to keep it.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Want
  • Something
  • Mine

• I do think that people outside the fashion industry imagine that being a model is what you might call quick, easy money, but it can be very lonely - you have to be quite tough. It's also very physically demanding.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • People
  • Money
  • Fashion

• I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • People
  • Why
  • Think

• I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Time
  • Same
  • Motivational

• When I came to Delhi and noticed an insider view, I felt what it was, and I was surprised to see it. It seemed as if dozens of separate governments are running at the same time in one main government. It appeared that everyone has its own fiefdom.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Time
  • Running
  • Government

• What's great about HBO is they just care about quality. They care about the brand. They're not worried about ratings; obviously they want people to buy subscriptions, but they just want people to be into what's on HBO.

  

  Eddie Kaye Thomas
  • People
  • Great
  • Quality

• I started cooking out of middle school depression.

  

  Zac Posen
  • School
  • Cooking
  • Depression

• You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of 'then' and 'maybe,' but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Experience
  • Future
  • Past

• Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • World
  • Lies
  • Possible

• I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Me
  • Attention
  • Never

• There is no need for neighborhood informants and paper dossiers if the government can see citizens' every Web site visit, e-mail and text message.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Government
  • See
  • Need

• I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.

  

  Ian Hart
  • Ambitious
  • Rather
  • Than

• From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Said
  • View
  • Point Of View

• My mom and dad are New Yorkers who left the tenement streets of the Bronx and came to Los Angeles when 'West Side Story' was real. They have the scars to prove it.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Real
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • World
  • Understanding

• Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Freedom

• It started when i heard your song of love Pouring down like honey from above I started to spin, i started to move Just like a needle that is sticking through the same old groove

  

  Andy Partridge
  • Song

• You know, I have written about this and described it in many different settings, and I did misspeak the other day. This has been a very long campaign.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Different
  • Long

• I always knew I wanted to be in front of the camera. But even after 10 years behind the scenes at CBS News producing live segments, celebrity profiles, and breaking news, I still hadn't been given the chance to be on TV.

  

  Andy Cohen
  • Live
  • Celebrity

• I think if you had to choose between running a tabloid and being president of the United States, of course you'd run the tabloid, especially in New York.

  

  Pete Hamill
  • Running

• By the time I reached the sixth form at my local grammar school, my father would glower at me every time I passed him with a stack of books under my arm, warning me there was no money to go to university.

  

  Christopher Fowler
  • Time
  • School
  • Money

• I like going back in time and writing historical fantasy. I use some real historical characters as a background to give depth to the fantasy. And I throw my fictional characters into the midst of this, and, so far, it has turned out interesting.

  

  Judith Tarr
  • Characters
  • Fantasy
  • Background

• This idea that my work is about hip-hop is a little reductive. What I'm interested in is the performance of masculinity, the performance of ethnicity, and how they intermingle across cultures.

  

  Kehinde Wiley
  • Work

• I've learned to let things roll off my back.

  

  Leighton Meester