Livy Quotes

We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.

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• I've never been a partier.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Never
  • Been

• I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Think

• 'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Mean
  • Safety
  • Punk

• Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.

  

  Lark Voorhies
  • Strong
  • Rising
  • Personage

• When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Time
  • Country
  • Movie

• I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Food
  • Thought
  • Yourself

• I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Mind
  • Kids
  • Cheer

• If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Time
  • Travel
  • Back

• My happy place is holding my daughter and my husband in the same hug. It really is. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it. I consider it such a privilege, and I know that I'm lucky. I never want to take it for granted.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Thinking
  • Happy
  • Emotional

• I've tried my hardest to bribe my chef, but my team have been clever and hired someone who not only is not bribeable but who chases me round the house and makes sure I eat what he's cooked, and he lays out my vitamin pills and supplements in front of me so I can't 'forget' to take them.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Team
  • Forget
  • Clever

• I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • People
  • Think
  • Habit

• It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • History
  • Think
  • Relationship

• Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Dreams
  • Expression
  • While

• I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Real
  • Me
  • Comedy

• That's what's interesting about the Lower East Side: It's New York, but it's also edgy. It's not as stuffy as Tribeca or Soho.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Interesting
  • New
  • New York

• In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Society
  • Peace
  • Trust

• The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Strong
  • Film
  • Hollywood

• The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Help
  • Knowledge
  • Goal

• The best things in life cannot be willed into being.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Life

• I knew from the start that I wanted my life to be about music. I taught myself the notes of the piano aged three, and then I spent the next few years deconstructing chords to figure out how to play them. At 11, I researched online the sort of music school I wanted to attend, printed out the details, and handed them to my parents.

  

  Ella Henderson
  • Life
  • Music
  • School

• You can't really be picky when no one is offering you anything.

  

  Joel Edgerton

• I attended a big human space flight conference in Beijing and I was going as myself. And really, there weren't any NASA astronauts there, I was the only so-called American Astronaut there. We had astronauts from most of the other countries, certainly from Russia, from France, from Japan, several other countries, but it was a little bit odd because here we are at an international gathering of a lot of astronauts and I'm talking about somewhere upwards of 30 or so astronauts, and I'm the only American. And I wasn't even there in an official capacity.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • American
  • Space
  • Conference

• When I first got into acting, I never had any long-term goals, never had any plan. I just thought it would be a good way to make some extra money.

  

  Dennis Farina
  • Good
  • Long
  • Money

• We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.

  

  Livy
  • Money
  • Nature