Anna Held Quotes

We must go fast, because the race is against time.

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• Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Heart
  • You
  • Decision

• I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?

  

  Edgar Bergen
  • God
  • Know
  • Ever

• I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Film
  • Interested
  • Student

• The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Up
  • Past
  • Never

• Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.

  

  Lael Brainard
  • Time
  • World
  • Men

• There's the wonder of being able to do research from your own living room, of course. I do find that my biggest research issue, though, is how to frame my questions.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Wonder
  • Questions
  • Research

• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Character
  • Want
  • Play

• The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • May
  • Environment
  • Year

• I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Live
  • Peace
  • Security

• I love to walk around New York. Honestly, that's like the best thing, to walk over to Park Slope and go visit my friend Betty and take her dog out in the park or go walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I really dig being outside and getting to see everybody in the street.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Friend
  • Like
  • Street

• I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Friends
  • Like
  • Things

• For a spinner growing up in England, it is challenging to become an off-spinner. The line and length needs to be altered on each of the four days of county cricket or five days of Test matches. The pitches in England don't have a set pattern. It changes with each day, and accordingly, the length varies.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Day

• The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Country
  • Universe
  • Ideas

• Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Fun
  • Lose
  • Losing

• I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Time
  • Long
  • Think

• I've found all of my apartments on Craigslist. I've got good Craigslist luck. I just sit on my couch and really focus on it, and I've gotten really lucky that way.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Good
  • Focus
  • Luck

• Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Think
  • Problem
  • Corruption

• The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Time
  • Country
  • High

• I think what's most important is family.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Important
  • Family
  • Think

• I try to live with honor, even if it costs me millions of dollars and takes a long time. It's very unusual in Hollywood. Few people are trustworthy - a handshake means nothing to them. They feel they're required to keep an agreement with you only if you're successful or they need you.

  

  James Cameron
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• When student performance shows increases on test scores, that improvement is not associated with an increase in 'fluid intelligence' - that is, using logical thinking and problem solving in novel situations, rather than recalling previously learned facts and skills.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Thinking
  • Intelligence
  • Improvement

• Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• We must go fast, because the race is against time.

  

  Anna Held
  • Time