Anna Lee Quotes

Oh, if I had only known then what I know now, I would have stopped it last year when I was still young.

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• I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Parents
  • June
  • Navy

• I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.

  

  Wale
  • Me
  • Learning
  • Famous

• I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Bono told me how to dance in high heels and he also told me about U2's Glastonbury performance and how everything that could have possibly gone wrong went wrong, including him ripping his trousers on stage. I think he was lunging and his trousers ripped! He was telling me how he had to find a new way of performing that didn't involve moving.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • High
  • Moving
  • Dance

• As the platform and protocol become more ingrained in society, get built into products and services, and basically become more of the mesh of society, just like the Internet, companies and people will need to own Bitcoin to play on its rails.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • People
  • Society
  • Own

• I am strictly against remaking a movie.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Movie
  • Remaking

• People are not happy with women in actual power, yet we seem to be happy to take women on as figureheads, objects, like queens. It's a powerful yet politically powerless role.

  

  Kate Williams
  • People
  • Women
  • Power

• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Name
  • Albums

• I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Book
  • Dirtiest

• My first instrument was my voice. I was always singing and writing melodies when I was a little kid. I just sort of taught myself whatever was around. If there were instruments around, I'd play them. I always liked the idea of not being shown but coming up with my own energetic connection to the instrument.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Myself

• Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Yourself

• In August of 2011, Steve Jobs, the tech icon who disrupted a string of traditional industries, called me and told me he thought he'd figured out a way to revolutionize TV. He invited me to come see it at Apple in a few months, but he died just six weeks later, and that meeting never came to pass.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Thought
  • Meeting
  • August

• When you go in and guest-star on a TV show, they already have their family - everybody pretty much knows everybody, and everyone sort of has that base already formed.

  

  Laura Ramsey
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • You

• To get real diversity of thought, you need to find the people who genuinely hold different views and invite them into the conversation.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Different
  • Real

• I want people to remember that Pakistan is my country. It is like my mother, and I love it dearly. Even if its people hate me, I will still love it.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Country
  • Remember

• The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Death

• Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Prayer
  • Correspondence
  • Answered

• The path that leads from the persona to the self, from the adult to the outlaw, consists of learning to distinguish between false desire and true desire, or superficial desire and profound desire, or obsessive desire and free passion, … or illusory needs and real needs.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Real
  • True
  • Free

• Today the salaries of stars are astronomical in comparison with the 20's, but the high cost of today's living and taxes takes a huge bite out of these salaries.

  

  Pola Negri
  • High
  • Today

• It's easier to find the joke in something when you think, 'This - this is ridiculous.'

  

  Alexandra Petri

• Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.

  

  Nick Tosches
  • Life
  • Death
  • Fear

• As long as this stigma exists, that Charles Taylor is supposed to be Attila the Hun, nothing is going to come here. And now it’s not just about me, it’s about this country living.

  

  Charles Taylor
  • Supposed
  • Stigma
  • Attila the Hun

• Oh, if I had only known then what I know now, I would have stopped it last year when I was still young.

  

  Anna Lee