Ann Cotton Quotes
I recall an 18-year-old girl named Rachel in Zambia who was given a grant to start a business of her choosing. She decided to breed goats so she could sell the meat and the milk, and donate the kids to orphan children. She herself was an orphan, stepping into young adulthood with no resources, and it was her first opportunity to earn her own money.Ann Cotton
Quotes to Explore
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I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably – small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.
Taylor Hanson Hanson -
Conformity is dangerous.
Adam Grant -
I've been very active all my life. I was a combat instructor in the Israeli Army.
Gal Gadot -
A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
Otto von Bismarck -
I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and everyone sang in choir. I started out playing the saxophone, but I always wanted to be in an orchestra. That was a dream as a kid, and there aren't a lot of saxophones in an orchestra.
Kacy Hill -
I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
Wayne Brady
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I've always had an addictive nature.
Gail Porter -
Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.
Sam Worthington -
I live in England, so I take a lot of trains, and you can't really go anywhere without somebody talking on their mobile phone behind you, forcing you to listen to their conversation. With the Internet, with texting, with networking sites, there's already information everywhere.
Patrick Ness -
Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don't have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open.
Hanya Yanagihara -
Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.
Taylor Swift -
The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
Saint Francis de Sales
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When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an image.
Valerie June -
I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
Zach Galifianakis -
The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.
L. Frank Baum -
Most women I know love the idea of fashion, but the practicalities that go with it are just distressing.
Caitlin Moran -
The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
Gary Larson -
Usually when I write a song, I'll write the music and then kind of fit some words to it.
Oscar Isaac
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We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.
Dale Archer -
I roll from my bedroom into my workroom in the morning and craft-craft-craft.
Yaya Han -
Young girls in particular aren't given a space to be messy and complicated and express themselves and experiment - they're told to be a little quieter and a little less than.
Rachel Keller -
I've felt like an outsider. I've had to struggle.
Peter Dinklage -
Vidal is determined to be a) in the thick of things, and b) above the fray. He knows everybody and he doesn't want to know anybody. He has had lovers by the thousand while doing 'nothing' - deliberately, at least - to please the other.
Martin Amis -
I recall an 18-year-old girl named Rachel in Zambia who was given a grant to start a business of her choosing. She decided to breed goats so she could sell the meat and the milk, and donate the kids to orphan children. She herself was an orphan, stepping into young adulthood with no resources, and it was her first opportunity to earn her own money.
Ann Cotton