Ann McKee Quotes

I think you have to be creative to make a difference in science.

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• I grew up on Avenue C, and Tompkins Square Park was my park. That was where I played ball every day. I lived in that park.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Up
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • People
  • Different
  • School

• My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • People
  • Time
  • Men

• I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Time
  • Work
  • Mom

• Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Up
  • Work
  • Growing

• When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • School
  • Greatest

• Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Why
  • Poverty

• Luckily I don't have to buy shoes anymore, because I design them! I'm off tour, so I can dive in and create the shoes that I want for my line. But okay, I did buy a pair of vintage combat boots because they were so beaten up - I had to have them.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Design
  • Shoes
  • Create

• I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Believe
  • War
  • Doing

• I grew up in London, one of four children. We were a very loud family, not a lot of listening, plenty of talking. My mum was a hearth mother: she loved to gather us all around her - Sunday lunches were a big thing. She was very good at thinking on her feet - people used to say she should go into politics.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Style
  • Movies
  • Bag

• The fans sing my name around the world. When I meet fans, they ask, 'How are you? All good with your family?'

  

  Yaya Toure
  • World
  • Good
  • Family

• We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Violence
  • Come

• I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Up
  • God
  • Man

• And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Year
  • Welcome
  • New Years

• Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

  

  Irving Kristol
  • Opportunity
  • Democracy
  • Equality

• I like spending time with my husband.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Time
  • Husband
  • Spending Time

• I hate birthdays.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Hate
  • Birthdays

• With science, there is this culture of experimentation, and most of the time, those experiments fail.

  

  John Lasseter
  • Time
  • Science
  • Culture

• On 'Game of Thrones,' we always shoot away from the green screen because it's bloody expensive to shoot green screen.

  

  Alan Taylor
  • Game
  • Green

• Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.

  

  Emmanuel Jal
  • Art
  • Words
  • Communication

• But, you know, once you're in government, very often you need to shoulder responsibility. I hope the new Spanish government will think about this and will therefore act accordingly. I really and sincerely hope so.

  

  Jose Maria Aznar
  • Hope
  • Responsibility
  • Spanish

• However, the eleventh-hour nature of these changes left us frustrated and angry — because they prevent us from telling the best stories we can. So, after a lot of soul-searching, we’ve decided to leave the book after Issue 26.

  

  J. H. Williams III
  • Book
  • Nature
  • Soul

• I think you have to be creative to make a difference in science.

  

  Ann McKee
  • Science