Lennie James Quotes

I like arriving somewhere and taking a left when someone tells you to go right. When all the tourist signs are pointing one way, it's exciting to go the other.

Lennie James

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• The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Work
  • Women
  • Children

• It is generally believed that it is the students who derive benefit by working under the guidance of a professor. In reality, the professor benefits equally by his association with gifted students working under him.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Reality
  • Him
  • Professor

• On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy.

  

  Nancy Keenan
  • Women
  • America
  • Party

• Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Experience
  • Pain
  • Accounting

• The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Nature
  • Rest
  • Wealth

• I was a dyslexic kid.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Kid
  • Dyslexic

• I like to look at the glass half full.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Like
  • Look
  • Glass

• I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Car
  • Win
  • Bike

• It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Happy
  • Lost
  • Youth

• I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Doing
  • Company
  • Director

• I did plays in high school, and I usually got cast in the comic role, which I really enjoyed.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• Men are seizing on Jesus as the exponent of their own social convictions. They all claim him. ...But in truth Jesus was not a social reformer of the modern type... he approached these facts purely from the moral, and not from the economic or historical point of view.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Jesus

• Most comic writers like to think they could play it straight if only their public would let them. Waugh is able to be grave without difficulty for he has always been comic for serious reasons. He has his own, almost romantic sense of propriety.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Serious
  • Romantic

• He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind-but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Mind
  • Gun

• There must be renewed recognition that societies are kept stable and healthy by reform, not by thought police; this means there must be free play for so-called subversive ideas - every idea subverts the old to make way for the new. To shut off subversion is to shut off peaceful progress and to invite revolution and war.

  

  I. F. Stone
  • War
  • Free
  • Progress

• I see my sister, and she's on her second baby, and I'm like, 'That's success.' Having a family - I can't wait for that.

  

  Adrienne Bailon 3LW
  • Family
  • She
  • Success

• I created 'Captain Underpants' when I was in the second grade. I was constantly getting in trouble for being the class clown, so my teacher sent me out into the hallway to punish me. It was there in the hall that I began drawing 'Captain Underpants'. Soon I was making my own comic books about him.

  

  Dav Pilkey
  • Teacher
  • Drawing

• My parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in Russia.

  

  Maria Sharapova
  • Life
  • Parents

• In rock 'n' roll it's really about being as vulnerable as possible and giving them what they want. But onstage it's about pausing, about internal life, it's about internal triggers - that's one of the reasons I'm really challenged to do a play.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Life
  • Giving
  • Rock

• Subsidies and mandates are just two of the privileges that government can bestow on politically connected friends. Others include grants, loans, tax credits, favorable regulations, bailouts, loan guarantees, targeted tax breaks and no-bid contracts.

  

  Charles Koch
  • Friends

• While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.

  

  James Branch Cabell
  • Time
  • Important

• I love stories - devising them, writing them, reading them, watching them, being a part of them.

  

  Neil Jackson
  • Writing
  • Reading

• Doing the same character over and over, it gets boring.

  

  Denis Leary
  • Character

• I like arriving somewhere and taking a left when someone tells you to go right. When all the tourist signs are pointing one way, it's exciting to go the other.

  

  Lennie James