Henry David Thoreau Quotes

I am a parcel of vain strivings tiedBy a chance bond together,Dangling this way and that, their linksWere made so loose and wide,Methinks,For milder weather.

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• If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Happy
  • Proud
  • Care

• I grew up on films.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Up
  • Films
  • Grew

• My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • American
  • House
  • Looks

• If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Know
  • Always
  • Try

• The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Like
  • Slavery
  • Secrets

• I think what has helped me is that I've never thought of myself as a child star. If you think of yourself like that, you might have problems!

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Myself
  • Star
  • Child

• Teens want to read something that isn't a lie; we adults wish we could put our heads under the blankets and hide from the scary story we're writing for our kids.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Wish

• With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Humility
  • Alive
  • Him

• Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Women
  • Say
  • Lesbian

• Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • People
  • Love
  • Hate

• In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Different
  • You
  • Perfect

• We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Reality
  • Space
  • Humility

• When a relationship with a director is really working, you have the same idea at the same time. You go, 'Look, this isn't working,' and they'll go, 'I know it's not working. What are we gonna do?' And you go and try something else.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Relationship
  • Same

• Getting to do 'December Songs' in a cabaret-style format was so interesting because it's like a one-woman song cycle that actually tells a story. It feels like a theatrical experience more than a cabaret because I didn't talk in between. We went from one song to the next, nine songs in a row - bam - I told the story in half an hour.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Experience
  • Song
  • Interesting

• I love being in a courtroom.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Love
  • Being
  • Courtroom

• The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Space
  • Friend
  • Moon

• Never fight an inanimate object.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Funny
  • Never
  • Fight

• My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • Up
  • Work
  • School

• Everybody in the entertainment industry is insecure.

  

  Sia LSD

• I've always said that Miguel Pinero's story is a quintessential American tale. An immigrant who comes to this country, is immediately marginalized to the lowest economic level and persecuted because of his skin color and, in spite of all the obstacles put in his way, he becomes a huge popular success.

  

  Benjamin Bratt
  • Country
  • American
  • Success

• How can we salute - encourage the American spirit? That means many different things to many different people.

  

  Desiree Rogers
  • People
  • Different
  • American

• One of my purposes is to use the television show as a voice to not only entertain people, as I did in the beginning, but as a source of information, as a source of enlightenment, wherever we can, and also as a source of lifting people up wherever you can.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Up
  • Beginning

• Now I'm a wife and a mother of two. It's a really different role. I always referred to No Doubt as a marriage, because that's what it's like to be together for so long and go through what we've been through. I can't really have that relationship with them anymore.

  

  Gwen Stefani No Doubt
  • Different
  • Long
  • Together

• I am a parcel of vain strivings tiedBy a chance bond together,Dangling this way and that, their linksWere made so loose and wide,Methinks,For milder weather.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
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