Alethea Kontis Quotes

I am a big fan of the web comic 'Strong Female Protagonist,' illustrated by Molly Ostertag.

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• For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Long
  • Man
  • Political

• When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Feeling

• Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Kids
  • Knowledge
  • Economy

• The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Kind
  • Model
  • Look

• While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Money
  • Experience
  • Happy

• My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Done
  • Belief
  • Complaining

• Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Fall
  • Intellectual
  • Continue

• When I was at drama school, I remember going to Amsterdam for new year and sitting with friends on the front of a P&O ferry in the wind, having some sort of 'Titanic' moment, declaring ourselves to be the new kings of theatre.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • School
  • Friends
  • Remember

• When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Words
  • Always
  • Talk

• I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Up
  • Family
  • Down

• It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • True
  • Alone
  • Leader

• I grew fond of acting rather late. And that was because I was not getting any job. I had a few friends in Delhi who were associated with theater. They took me to see some plays in Delhi and Baroda. That led me to believe the I could also act. And it was after that I joined National School of Drama in 1993.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Believe
  • School
  • Job

• Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• I always look to play flawed characters. I'm not very interested in playing somebody that's just, you know, the very nice one or the attractive one, or whatever, which a lot of female parts can just be written that way.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Know
  • Nice
  • Look

• Emotions should be real; one shouldn't come across as acting.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Real
  • Acting
  • Emotions

• In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Up
  • American
  • Nature

• There are a lot of possibilities I'm looking at for the future, but I'm very insistent on not limiting myself.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Future
  • Myself
  • Looking

• Our whole wedding cost 180 bucks. Afterward, we re-heated lasagna for everyone and set off fireworks.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Everyone
  • Wedding
  • Cost

• I weep at everything.

  

  Chris Evans

• When you post something, when you text something, you lose ownership of it when you hit enter or send. Who you send it to, where you post it, they take ownership of that information whether you like it or not. Unfortunately, you don't lose responsibility for that text or post.

  

  Mark Cuban
  • Responsibility
  • Text

• We'd been away for a year and we needed to come back with a big impact, but just another dance track would not have broken any new ground. As far as I'm concerned 'Firestarter' set a whole new level for English music, that's my honest opinion, crossing the barriers between punk and dance. Keith re-invented himself and it was a great introduction to him. It was onvincing but not just because it was #1. The track sounds like it means business, the way Keith delivers the vocals, the music has such attitude. It was a landmark.

  

  Liam Howlett The Prodigy
  • Level
  • Needed
  • Comeback

• We choose forward. We choose inclusion. We choose growing together. We choose American economic might and muscle, standing strong on the bedrock of the American ideal: a strong, empowered and ever-growing middle class.

  

  Cory Booker
  • American
  • Together
  • Strong

• When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Family
  • Growing
  • Value

• I am a big fan of the web comic 'Strong Female Protagonist,' illustrated by Molly Ostertag.

  

  Alethea Kontis
  • Strong