Ann Cotton Quotes

All countries have poor people. Yet it's a very rare country which understands the indignities of poverty, while education systems maintain the status quo. The children of the elite go to the best schools and get the best jobs, not because they are the best. We're not taking advantage of the intellectual power on this planet.

Ann Cotton

• People
• Country
• Children
• Power
• Education
• Poverty

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• For me, acting is becoming naked in front of people, you know? And when you know in the back of your mind somebody is testing you, you cannot really bare yourself. That's a feeling I always have when I'm auditioning.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • People
  • Mind
  • Feeling

• Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • People
  • America
  • Acting

• I have been fighting climate change for two decades, and people often ask me how I remain hopeful in the face of extreme weather and grim forecasts. The answer is simple: I see countless solutions spreading across the nation and across the world. But we need more investment.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • World
  • Change

• Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • People
  • Money
  • Why

• People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather - how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • People
  • Hate
  • Weather

• I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • City
  • New York

• I'm so sick of people misunderstanding Asians in America and what we're about.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • People
  • America
  • Sick

• I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Power
  • More
  • Dangerous

• I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my personality until they like me - even if they don't like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're strangers.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • People
  • Change
  • Personality

• The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • Process

• In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a sign of something awful happening to the brain, whereas in most cases they're not.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • People
  • Brain
  • See

• In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Children
  • Black
  • Community

• I just think it's shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned into hardcore criminals because they had a possession of a very small amount of controlled substance.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • Up
  • Small

• Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.

  

  Oliver St. John
  • People
  • Politics
  • Irish

• My children went to Bethesda Elementary School. I wouldn't do anything to endanger the safety of Bethesda.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Children
  • School
  • Safety

• Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • People
  • Life
  • Human

• What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was 'Hee Haw,' was 360 degrees of entertainment.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Music
  • Country
  • Loved

• I don't look at myself as a celebrity. People recognize me, but it's all about my music, my songs. It's not like I'm a greater being. I take my kids to school, pick them up, go to the grocery store. I'm a mother, and my kids mean more to me than even being an artist.

  

  Faith Evans
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• If you want to eat well and be healthy, there are so many different options now, and you can make a big difference even if it's committing to just one thing.

  

  Anna Getty
  • Different

• A writer is what I am.

  

  Phyllis A. Whitney

• You see, this war came to us, not the other way around.

  

  Condoleezza Rice
  • War

• The Internet, in general, I find troubling. The anonymity has made us all meaner and dumber. This thing that was supposed to bring us closer together, I see it doing the opposite.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Together
  • Doing
  • Internet

• All countries have poor people. Yet it's a very rare country which understands the indignities of poverty, while education systems maintain the status quo. The children of the elite go to the best schools and get the best jobs, not because they are the best. We're not taking advantage of the intellectual power on this planet.

  

  Ann Cotton
  • People
  • Country
  • Children