Lena Headey Quotes

Maybe you just don't see your own beauty.

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• I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Family
  • College
  • Proud

• I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Happy
  • Eyes
  • Blues

• I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Great
  • Evil
  • Present

• Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Men
  • Society
  • Philosophy

• So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Up
  • Women
  • Why

• There's a latter-day notion that artsy hippie types in the 1960s disdained the space program. Not in my experience they didn't. We watched, transfixed with reverence, not even making rude remarks about President Nixon during his phone call to the astronauts.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • Experience
  • Space
  • Rude

• You can usually tell when people aren't being authentic, but that goes for every artist, not just white artists.

  

  Yelawolf
  • People
  • Artist
  • White

• Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Moral

• Most actors are not rich - they are very poor indeed. What keeps them going is that they just love the job.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Love
  • Job
  • Rich

• I loved every day I was in politics. But I got out at the right time. I never miss it.

  

  Abraham A. Ribicoff
  • Time
  • Day
  • Politics

• My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Driving
  • Hollywood
  • Helped

• You may stifle your creativity by learning too much about processes that should be spontaneous and automatic.

  

  Damon Knight
  • May
  • You
  • Learning

• I believe that successfully addressing our national security needs while protecting our basic freedoms and civil liberties requires continual Congressional oversight, and I will continue to work to assert the role of this body in carrying out this grave responsibility.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Responsibility

• So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Why
  • You
  • Write

• Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Universe

• Beware of the manipulativeness of rich students who were neglected by their parents. They love to turn the campus into hysterical psychodramas of sexual transgression, followed by assertions of parental authority and concern. And don’t look for sexual enlightenment from academe, which spews out mountains of books but never looks at life directly.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Enlightenment

• Even when we were still fighting in the bush against the oppressive dictatorships of Idi Amin and Milton Obote, we introduced elections for the committees of the villages under our control.

  

  Yoweri Museveni
  • Control
  • Fighting

• The public has an unusual relationship to the poet: It doesn't even know that he is there.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Relationship

• And mine a shielded heart for herWho gathers simples of the moon.

  

  James Joyce
  • Heart
  • Moon

• If for you the most important thing is to make a lot of money, then you don't want to take a certain type of risk. If, on another hand, the most important thing to you is to make people around you have a more fulfilled life, then there is a different set of things that are important to you. Unless you really know that about yourself, you will never be able to appropriately assess risk.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Money
  • Risk
  • Important Thing

• As a child, I was an observer, a listener for the stories of grown-ups. I led a quiet, solitary life with my mother, interrupted in the evenings by the arrival of my father who preferred to live in a state of emergency.

  

  Susan Shreve
  • Life
  • Stories
  • Solitary

• The things that stand out are often the oddities.

  

  Pierre Salinger

• It's strange when you're innocent, are you supposed to ask for forgiveness from the judge who's ready to put you away for several years? No, this wasn't even discussed.

  

  Yekaterina Samutsevich
  • Years
  • Judge
  • Strange

• Maybe you just don't see your own beauty.

  

  Lena Headey