Lysette Anthony Quotes

It's lovely to be told you're wonderful by someone when you're used to being told how awful you are.

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• The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Health
  • Medicine

• The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Friends

• We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Monsters
  • Competing
  • id

• With acting, I've always gotten by in life acting in situations. I'm a small person. I didn't have a chance to be a bully. But I could always act myself out of tough situations.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
  • Life
  • Small
  • Myself

• I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • School
  • Drama
  • Working

• I think what made John Lennon so exciting as an artist is that, like Dylan and other musicians with a truly important musical legacy, he had several faces, personas that changed over time as he developed.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Time
  • Important
  • Legacy

• You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • You
  • Motivational
  • Machine

• In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Joy
  • Happiness
  • U.S.

• I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Truth
  • Right
  • Wrong

• My first trophy in France was the Young Player of the Year. I was 17. Chelsea is not just one player. It is not only me. We have signed a lot of players. Now we have some good signings like Cesc Fabregas and Diego Costa.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Me
  • Player

• I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Children
  • Friends

• I like to give back.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Like
  • Give
  • Back

• When I was in school I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.

  

  Lisa Randall
  • School
  • Math

• The most doubtful reasoning appears to us clear and conclusive, when we can, in any way, twist it to an accordance with what we desire.

  

  Alexandre Vinet
  • Desire

• The only way I'll get you is to get you in bed.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles

• The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.

  

  Bill Frist
  • Important
  • Experience
  • American

• Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • Presidential

• There are very few shows that show women talking like strong, sassy women. Do you know what I mean? 'Sex and the City' started doing that, and that was why that was such a huge hit.

  

  Katie Aselton
  • Women
  • Why
  • Strong

• I know that my voice has entered into the hearts of many people and has caused beautiful reactions. Some, hearing me sing, have become more religious; some who were ill felt joy; friends, while in hospital, played my tapes whenever they felt ill; they all said that my voice gave them the strength needed to stand the pain. Therefore, how can I not be thankful for this great gift?

  

  Renata Tebaldi
  • Friends
  • Beautiful
  • Pain

• There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

  

  Franklin Pierce Adams
  • Life
  • Important
  • Age

• I urge the citizens of Ferguson who have been peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights to join with law enforcement in condemning the actions of looters, vandals and others seeking to inflame tensions and sow discord.

  

  Eric Holder
  • Actions
  • Citizens
  • Discord

• It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Game

• Why can't we learn to live with how we are? And whatever anybody chooses is okay by the rest of us?

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Live
  • Why
  • Rest

• It's lovely to be told you're wonderful by someone when you're used to being told how awful you are.

  

  Lysette Anthony