Alexandra Paul Quotes

When the Exxon Valdez spilled in 1989, I was angry. I even wrote on the back of my car, Boycott Exxon!

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• Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Time
  • Ideas
  • Skill

• White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's a matter of forcing that change.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Good
  • May
  • Help

• Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Different
  • Job
  • Language

• Hits and flops are overrated.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Hits
  • Overrated
  • Flops

• I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Trying
  • Hurt
  • Smart

• I think entrepreneurs have a great opportunity to think of how to make things more understandable, simple and beautiful.

  

  J. Christopher Burch
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Opportunity

• Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • American
  • Doubt
  • Conversation

• With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew I could become the best in the world if I trained. But with acting, there are different variations; there's not a right or wrong way. It's so hard because it's so out of your hands. I have no idea what's going to happen!

  

  Maika Monroe
  • World
  • Different
  • Lost

• Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large competitors.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Speed
  • Fast
  • Competitors

• I'm a huge poster collector.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Huge
  • Collector
  • Poster

• In the case of the Analytical Engine, we have undoubtedly to lay out a certain capital of analytical labour in one particular line, but this is in order that the engine may bring us in a much larger return in another line.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • May
  • Return
  • Bring

• I read for the 'ah-ha's,' the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man - financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Mind
  • Family
  • Man

• When I was young, I had an 'aha' moment in church. There was a thing called testimony service, and somebody would sing a song, and everyone else would join in, finding a note where they fit. During one of those, a light went on in my head. In that moment, I heard everything - Parliament, the Staple Singers, Curtis Mayfield, Prince - in there.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Song
  • Light
  • Church

• Power has to be insecure to be responsive.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Power
  • Insecure
  • Responsive

• I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and made up many tales involving 'Gory the Goblin' and other creatures that I borrowed from the Grimms' tales and other tales I knew.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Daughter
  • Creatures
  • Fairy

• I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics.

  

  Edi Rama
  • Love
  • Joy
  • Politics

• Internet governance is an oxymoron. The Internet must govern itself. But you can't play cricket without any rules.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Play
  • Internet
  • Rules

• I always tell people this: to be a savvy politician or a good head of state and to be charitable are not mutually exclusive things.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • People
  • Good
  • Always

• I wanted to like 'Up in the Air' - I like Jason Reitman - but Vera Farmiga left me cold.

  

  Andy Kindler
  • Up
  • Air
  • Cold

• I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • Good
  • Food

• My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician.

  

  Branford Marsalis
  • Guy
  • House
  • Dad

• This is like my dad's race team where we had one Legend car. If we wrecked it, we couldn't race the next week unless we had enough parts to put it back together again.

  

  Kurt Busch
  • Together
  • Team
  • Dad

• When the Exxon Valdez spilled in 1989, I was angry. I even wrote on the back of my car, Boycott Exxon!

  

  Alexandra Paul
  • Car
  • Angry