Andrew Denton Quotes

I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.

Andrew Denton

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• Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Never
  • Effort
  • Moral

• I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Writing
  • Politics

• I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • I Can
  • Socialism
  • Communism

• Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Art
  • Race
  • Bike

• Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Home
  • Reason
  • Get

• There is - I will just say that there was a disastrous day where I discovered really what radioactivity is and that just because you don't see it doesn't mean that it's not everywhere, so - Yeah. I was a slow learner for sure.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • You
  • Day
  • Slow

• I think there's no creative process that goes without injuries and scratches and punches. You get beat up somehow, and that's part of the commitment. You have to be open to that.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Up
  • Creative
  • Commitment

• My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Control
  • Sense
  • Intellectual

• What's right with America and what's right with Islam have a lot in common. At their highest levels, both worldviews reflect an enlightened recognition that all of humankind shares a common Creator - that we are, indeed, brothers and sisters.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • America
  • Islam
  • Recognition

• I like trying to make sounds that are interesting and are a bit weird. I try to make music that captures people's imaginations.

  

  Sampha
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• There's nothing I'd rather do than sort of, you know, sit at my computer and rhyme.

  

  Gary Ross
  • You
  • Know
  • Nothing

• A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Practice
  • Moment
  • Perfection

• I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.

  

  Oscar Levant

• People hate the man who is a constant drain on their sympathy.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • People
  • Hate
  • Sympathy

• I'm not the youngest person at the table anymore. I'm not the young precocious one. I feel like I'm engaging with people in a different way now. I am a woman. I'm treated with respect, as an equal.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • People
  • Different
  • Respect

• On a couple of occasions in the last weeks, I just said some things that weren‘t in keeping with what I knew to be the case and what I had written about in my book. And you know, I‘m embarrassed by it. I‘m very sorry I said it. I have said that, you know, it just didn‘t jive with what I had written about and knew to be the truth.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Book
  • Truth
  • Couple

• Experience, the interpreter between formative nature and the human race, teaches how that nature acts among mortals; and being constrained by necessity cannot act otherwise than as reason, which is its helm, requires her to act.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Experience
  • Nature

• When people asked me in a RV park, 'What do you do?' I just said, 'I'm a retired state employee from Maine.'

  

  Angus King
  • People

• We need teacher educators who regularly spend a great deal of time in classrooms so they have a deep understanding of where they students will teach.

  

  Carol Ann Tomlinson
  • Understanding
  • Teacher
  • Students

• When my daughter, Clare, was 4, she told me that a school friend had told her what I did for a living. Clare asked me, 'Is it true you play Jack Rabbit?'

  

  Peter Bergman
  • School
  • She
  • True

• There's very few people, who really thrive creatively under great stress and conflict.

  

  Clark Gregg
  • People
  • Great
  • Stress

• I never thought I'd do comedy, ever, in a million years. I always thought comedy was just for fun - to me, the real stuff was the real dramatic stuff. Now I know it's all valuable. There's a real excitement, a good feeling when you can make people laugh.

  

  Peri Gilpin
  • People
  • Good
  • Real

• One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly." ~ (1919-), American writer, producer, humorist.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Up
  • World
  • American

• I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.

  

  Andrew Denton