Amy Carlson Quotes

If I'm going out on the town in New York, I always wear Danielle Collins T-shirts - they are expressive, young: independent woman in charge of herself, her body, and her mind.

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• I was very shy and reserved, so it was a bit contradictory to get into politics.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Politics
  • Shy
  • Reserved

• I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.

  

  Ice T
  • Up
  • Men
  • Think

• I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Peace
  • Winning

• The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Up
  • Teach
  • Students

• I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • God
  • Game
  • Me

• Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Lord
  • Created
  • Sins

• Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Home
  • Growing

• Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Music
  • Night

• You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Listening

• Small ideas won't help Illinois' future.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Help
  • Future
  • Small

• I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Manicure

• Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Childhood

• Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Simple

• I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Movie
  • Free
  • Me

• It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Alone
  • Thoughts
  • Perspective

• Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Characters
  • Point
  • Finding

• It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Live
  • Want

• Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

  

  Christopher Alexander
  • Great
  • Design

• Jim Fregosi will be deeply missed in the baseball world. Joni and the rest of the family are in our prayers. Fregos, was the best manager I've ever played for. Our relationship was so special.and he was the one that taught me how to be a leader. Fregos and I could relate to each other whether we were in the clubhouse or on the field. In 1993 The City of Brotherly Love changed the world..Fregos was the driving force!!!

  

  Darren Daulton
  • Prayer
  • Baseball
  • Leader

• We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Time
  • Heroes
  • Abstract

• Men often become nonviolent in societies that (1) have adequate amounts of food, (2) have adequate amounts of water, and (3) perceive themselves as isolated from attack. For example, the Tahitian men, the Minoan men on Crete, and the Central Malaysian Semai were nonviolent during the period in their history when all three of these conditions prevailed.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • History
  • Food

• The most sobering thing is to have a number one record across the whole entire world in all languages.

  

  Billy Paul
  • World

• If I'm going out on the town in New York, I always wear Danielle Collins T-shirts - they are expressive, young: independent woman in charge of herself, her body, and her mind.

  

  Amy Carlson
  • Mind
  • Independent