Linda Hunt Quotes

I can't be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man.

Linda Hunt

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• I've finished 12th standard from Poddar International and enrolled for B.A. in political science in Cambridge University, London. It's a correspondence course, and I'll go to London for my exams once a year. That way, I can devote more time to films.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Time
  • Science
  • Political

• I made lots of talks and challenged lots of people.

  

  Earl Butz
  • People
  • Challenged
  • Lots

• I feel a strong affinity to Ke$ha and Katy Perry and a lot of these women who are really pushing the girl power femme fatale thing. It's fun, and it's unapologetic, and they tell women they can do whatever they want, and that's true, and that's a message that I want to carry, to tell girls they can do whatever they want.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Women
  • Power
  • True

• As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Artist
  • Responsible

• Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Time
  • Done
  • Success

• Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Important
  • Love
  • Art

• 'The Unity Band' project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Life
  • Me
  • Band

• To me, charity often is just about giving, because you're supposed to, or because it's what you've always done - or it's about giving until it hurts.

  

  Majora Carter
  • Giving
  • Me
  • Charity

• We just can't change the rules if we don't like the results.

  

  Candice S. Miller
  • Change
  • Rules
  • Results

• I was always the new kid, and I got to know the language and the politics of being on the outside, looking in. Never being in the clique - always being a student of the clique, a subversive, and I could look around and identify the other guys who were excluded.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Language
  • Politics
  • New

• The greatest preventative to terrorism is Muslim religious literacy.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Religious
  • Greatest
  • Terrorism

• When something really hits me, it makes me want to either jump off something really high or lie down and be buried. I want people to get hit and caught by my music.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Music
  • High

• When they brought Roth back into the picture, obviously I didn't go along with that too well.

  

  Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot
  • Picture
  • Back
  • Well

• If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Reality
  • Interesting
  • Drunk

• We are fond of distinctions; we place ourselves in opposition, and quarrel under the denominations of faction and party, without any material subject of controversy.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Party

• Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is a slave, not a free man. One whose mind is not free, though he may not be in prison, is a prisoner and not a free man. One whose mind is not free though alive, is no better than dead. Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Mind
  • Real
  • May

• We don't necessarily have to play by the strict rules if we can find a way that works better, as long as it's reasonable and doesn't hurt anybody.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Long
  • Hurt

• Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.

  

  Edward Bellamy
  • Age
  • Lies

• Culture hides more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.

  

  Edward T. Hall
  • Culture

• I think any stereotyping is too much.

  

  Tommy Lee Jones
  • Stereotype

• Whenever people say 'women's soccer,' I want to correct them to say 'soccer.' Every girl has had their sport diminished because they're girls.

  

  Alex Morgan
  • People
  • Women
  • Girl

• We all have genes that come from our ancestors that aren't used - they're not turned on. So we actually carry ancient genes with us. If you could figure out how to turn those on, you could resurrect ancient characteristics from our ancestors.

  

  Jack Horner
  • You
  • Turn
  • Carry

• I often don't see what I've done, or I cringe when I watch myself.

  

  Peter Dinklage
  • Done

• I can't be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man.

  

  Linda Hunt