Lily Collins Quotes

I don't want to acquire whatever 'fame' is.

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• If anything, the children of Paris should be giving me even more money for having the privilege of being in the same city as my incredible quality. And so should David Beckham. Call it a Zlaritable donation.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Children
  • Money
  • Giving

• If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Political
  • Giving

• Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Money
  • Power
  • Limits

• Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • Used
  • Furniture
  • Meant To Be

• Look, you need technical skills to run a company.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Look
  • Company
  • Skills

• Speaking is physically difficult for me.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Me
  • Difficult
  • Speaking

• Insults are the business of the court.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Business
  • Court
  • Insults

• You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • Real
  • Know

• Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Diversity
  • Nation
  • Fabric

• Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • World
  • Power
  • Change

• For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Friends

• You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Want
  • Man
  • You

• I think it was Elisabeth Shue who said that if you start a movie with a woman seen through a man's eyes, that woman is objectified by him throughout.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Movie
  • Man
  • Eyes

• The most-asked question when someone describes a novel, movie or short story to a friend probably is, 'How does it end?' Endings carry tremendous weight with readers; if they don't like the ending, chances are they'll say they didn't like the work. Failed endings are also the most common problems editors have with submitted works.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Question

• At 14, you think you compete, you retire and you get a job. I didn't think gymnastics was a career that was going to change my life.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Life
  • Job
  • Career

• I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Live
  • Desire
  • Religion

• There was a whole slew of 'Cops and Robbersons,' just films that didn't measure up, that didn't stand for anything comedically. They were purely for a paycheck.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Up

• Dominic Sherwood would always tell me a joke right before it was my take or my close up. He'd say a funny joke, and I couldn't stop laughing, even after they said, 'Action.'

  

  Emeraude Toubia
  • Up
  • Funny
  • Action

• People get caught up in worshipping certain rappers, or they try to demonise hip hop by looking at what certain rappers are doin' in their lives.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa
  • People
  • Up

• In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

  

  Khalil Gibran
  • Heart
  • Morning
  • Friendship

• I think the Tata Group's greatest contribution to the growth of the Indian economy and Indian industry probably happened in the pre-independence era. The Group's investments in industries such as steel, textiles, power and hotels were certainly driven by an entrepreneurial spirit, but they were driven even more, I think, by a desire to make India self-sufficient and independent of its colonial masters then.

  

  Ratan Tata
  • Thinking
  • Desire
  • Growth

• Industrial agriculture, because it depends on standardization, has bombarded us with the message that all pork is pork, all chicken is chicken, eggs eggs, even though we all know that can't really be true.

  

  Joel Salatin
  • True

• I wanted to do that again but, when I went to look for chants, I didn't want to do it in the exact same way.

  

  Jon Crosby
  • Want
  • Same Way
  • Chants

• I don't want to acquire whatever 'fame' is.

  

  Lily Collins