Edward Albert Quotes

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.

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• In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

  

  Warren Mitchell
  • You
  • Doubt
  • Little

• Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Why
  • More
  • Soccer

• I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Know
  • Like
  • Strangers

• Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Political
  • Audience
  • Tough

• Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • People
  • Life
  • Science

• As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'

  

  Barry McGee
  • Art
  • Popular
  • Just

• One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Problems
  • Plan
  • Bold

• When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Good
  • Men
  • Bad

• The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mind

• The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • World
  • Model
  • Impossible

• When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

  

  Irving Layton
  • You
  • Clever
  • Convince

• Faith is personal if it's to be real.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Real
  • Faith
  • Personal

• Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Stories
  • Fight
  • Intelligence

• We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn't fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn't look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • She
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  • Look

• Grown-up clothes are more appealing because customers need to be able to project themselves into them.

  

  Natalie Massenet
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  • Need
  • Clothes

• I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Play
  • Crazy
  • Actor

• If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Laws
  • Open
  • Visa

• The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Important
  • Risk
  • Gun

• Indian business women like Indra Nooyi, Chanda Kochhar, Naina Lal Kidwai, Shikha Sharma, Swati Piramal, Anu Agha, Swati Piramal, Sulajja Firodia Motwani and Zia Mody have put India on the global firmament.

  

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
  • Women
  • Business

• I have always tried to live by the 'awe principle.' That is: Can I find awe, wonder and enchantment in the most mundane things conceivable?

  

  Craig Hatkoff
  • Live
  • Wonder

• I definitely feel I'm outside of the polished pop girl group, which feels right. I don't think I could keep up that polished surface on purpose.

  

  Tove Lo
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  • Girl
  • Purpose

• I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.

  

  Charles Kuralt
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• People need role models, and they need to feel that there's this opportunity to learn. They need to have people that will stick up for them. I want to be a part of that.

  

  Kirsten Green
  • People
  • Up
  • Opportunity

• Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.

  

  Edward Albert
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