Ally Carter Quotes

The older I got, the smarter my teachers became.

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• It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Care
  • Ability
  • Protect

• Elmcrest CC, in Cedar Rapids, is where it all started when I was growing up. The tree-lined course has a very demanding layout that requires you to be accurate off the tee and avoid a number of well-placed water hazards on some of the holes.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Up
  • You
  • Growing

• An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Money

• I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Probably

• Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Never
  • Wanted
  • Mentor

• If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • Worry

• Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • Work
  • Important
  • Happy

• Knowing that anything can happen at any time, I made sure the people that I love know that.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • People
  • Time
  • Know

• My coming out, like most people's, was and is a gradual process - for no matter how out one is, there are always situations when one's with people who don't know, and one has the choice or, sometimes, the necessity of coming out to them.

  

  Nancy Garden
  • People
  • Process
  • Choice

• My kids have never seen me scream at anybody. They've never seen an argument. There's never been even a cold silence. And those are things that I grew up with because my parents did end up divorcing.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Parents

• Our choice of partners is perhaps the clearest single statement of our choice of values. Therefore, when we blame our partner for anything, we should really be confronting ourselves. Not as in 'Yes, I made a bad choice,' but as in 'How does this choice reflect my values?'

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Bad
  • Single
  • Partner

• So we're led by denial like lambs to the slaughterServing empires of style and carbonated sugar waterAnd the old farm road's a four-lane that leads to the mallAnd our dreams are all guillotines waiting to fall.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Fall
  • Style
  • Road

• I'm always curious about anyone who has enough passion to go onstage and say, 'This is what I'm really passionate about.' It's always worth listening to.

  

  Clemence Poesy
  • Passion
  • Listening

• If I was money-motivated, I wouldn't have joined a rock band with three other Armenian guys.

  

  Daron Malakian System Of A Down
  • Money
  • Band
  • Rock

• There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • Success
  • Failure

• Of course, you have always the goal for years to go there and to reach the top, but then if you are there, you actually don't know what to expect.

  

  Angelique Kerber

• My mother would take me to Tirumala right from when I was 7 years old. I used to go along with her every time.

  

  Akkineni Nagarjuna
  • Time
  • Mother

• I think in terms of content and subjects and whatever kind of production it dictates. Can I conceive of an idea that would really connect with my personal rhythms and cost a lot of money? I don't gravitate in that direction, but it is possible.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • Money

• I prefer games with many goals.

  

  Antoine Griezmann
  • Goals

• I would absolutely, definitely never sell my wedding pictures to a magazine. I'd like it to be a special day, not a photo shoot. And once you've done that, your marriage becomes everybody else's business.

  

  Katherine Jenkins
  • Done
  • Business
  • Marriage

• I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States.

  

  Janet Reno
  • People
  • Death

• Yeah, I think that's it... It's like Jesse James. He became really popular because he lasted so long. You know, there is some degree of truth to the fact that time will dignify anything, too.

  

  John Milius
  • Time
  • Long
  • Truth

• Man is a part of the world, and his spirit is part of the spirit of the world. We are merely a peculiar mode of Being, a living atom within it, or, rather, a cell that, if sufficiently open to itself and its own mystery, can also experience the mystery, the will, the pain, and the hope of the world.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Experience
  • Hope

• The older I got, the smarter my teachers became.

  

  Ally Carter
  • Smart
  • Teachers