Allegra Huston Quotes

I see myself as part English and part American, with a dash of Irish thrown in, and a pinch of Italian from my mother's ancestry.

Allegra Huston

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• Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Friends
  • Friendship
  • Destroy

• Cancer is really a DNA disease... We have these certain genes that prevent our cells from growing out of control at the expense of the body. And it's a pretty good, robust system. But if a couple of these genes fail, then that's when cancer starts, and cells start growing out of control.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Growing

• I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Popular

• Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Music
  • Influence
  • Big

• Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Life
  • Good
  • Yourself

• Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Desire
  • Government
  • Progress

• I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Up
  • World
  • Country

• Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Like
  • Always
  • Thought

• One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Reality
  • Jazz
  • Prism

• Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.

  

  Imran Khan
  • People
  • Good
  • Live

• I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Hair

• My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • inspirational
  • Rather

• I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Movie
  • Want

• Kids in urban and rural areas face so many challenges, and they show up at schools that don't have the extra capacity or extra resources to meet their needs.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Challenges

• I try to stick to a certain diet all the time, and then when I feel like a reward, I have it. I try to stick to no dairy, no sugar, no wheat.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Time
  • Reward
  • Diet

• I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Football
  • Air
  • See

• Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Deep
  • Winter
  • Roots

• Coffee shops are everywhere, especially in Los Angeles, chock full of sad sacks desperate to make sure their screenplays make it into the right hands... or any hands, for that matter. The one thing that makes a coffee shop truly great, though, is charm.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • Great
  • Sad
  • Coffee

• It's hard to believe a kid hitting golf balls in the cow pastures of New Mexico could have accomplished what I have accomplished.

  

  Billy Casper
  • Believe
  • Golf

• Here, you go to the supermarket and you have wipes to clean your hands before shopping. No, we don't have that in France, but we recycle.

  

  Berenice Bejo
  • Shopping

• I like to read Bengali novels and short stories. I am not that fond of reading English books, as I don't have a connect with it.

  

  Arijit Singh
  • Reading
  • English

• It's important to study and understand your responsibilities within any profession, but it's particularly important for military officers to read, think, discuss, and write about the problem of war and warfare so they can understand not just the changes in the character of warfare but also the continuities.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Important
  • Character
  • War

• My after forty face felt far more comfortable than anything I lived with previously. Self-confidence was a powerful beauty-potion; I looked better because I felt better. Failure and grief as well as success and love had served me well. Finally, I was tapping into that most hard-won of your dews: wisdom.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • Success
  • Wisdom
  • Powerful

• I see myself as part English and part American, with a dash of Irish thrown in, and a pinch of Italian from my mother's ancestry.

  

  Allegra Huston
  • American
  • Mother
  • English