Lydia Ko Quotes

I can't say I'm not nervous at all with media and doing speeches, but I'm getting used to it and better at it, hopefully.

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• I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.

  

  Olav Thon
  • Life
  • Family
  • Night

• The thing about curly hair is that it's a toss-up. Some days you can let it air dry and it's better than a hair-do, but some days you just look like a sloppy person. I'm really resistant to a trim. I only do it when it gets hard to brush out in the shower, then I'll submit, begrudgingly.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Up
  • Hair
  • Air

• I was once invited to attend a private dinner for Senator John F. Kennedy. But it was a Saturday evening, and I passed. Had better things to do.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Better
  • Saturday
  • Dinner

• Sometimes I get very dressed up just to go to the corner for some bread; I dress for my own amusement.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Up
  • Sometimes
  • Own

• In a marketplace where it's so easy to produce products, where your competitors can essentially match you on the product itself, you need to have something else. You need to have an added value, and that added value is the identity, the idea behind your brand.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Value
  • Identity
  • Brand

• I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women. You can see that clearly with things like 'The Hunger Games.'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Great
  • Women
  • Hunger

• I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Violence

• My whole life, I feel so blessed. I met my wife: I can't get over that I got so lucky. I have two incredible children. I can't believe that I've been so blessed. I've had a career that is way past anything that I've ever dreamed. I get to work in all these different areas with such extraordinary people on every level.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• The American people are extraordinarily comfortable, affluent, and secure. It's easy for us to make the argument that God's purpose is being fulfilled through history and through the rise of American power. And to some degree, it probably is.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • People
  • God
  • Power

• Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista's tyranny showed that the enemy, no matter what his strength, could not defeat the Cuban people.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • Experience
  • Enemy

• There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Star
  • Table
  • Restaurant

• You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Service

• 'Poly' means more than one, and ticks are bloodsucking parasites.

  

  Kinky Friedman

• I lift weights. It's one of the reasons I get up so early.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • Up

• I always loved the guitar, from when I was quite little. My dad had a G banjo at the house that he played. When he had parties, my sisters always played piano, and my dad played banjo.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • House
  • Dad

• Certainly if I were to think in terms of a field that would have required a different mode of education, I think I would have leaned in the direction of being a therapist. And without the education, or a different kind of education, I think my first choice would be a landscape architect. I love to garden.

  

  Jill McCorkle
  • Different
  • Education
  • Garden

• Scott Fitzgerald said famously that "he who invented consciousness would have a lot to be blamed for." But he also forgot that without consciousness, he would have no access to true happiness or even the possibility of transcendence.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • True
  • Consciousness
  • Access

• Here I am on the shore of Brittany. Let the cities light up in the evening. My day is done. I am leaving Europe. The sea air will burn my lungs. Lost climates will tan me. I will swim, trample the grass, hung, and smoke especially. I will drink alcohol as strong as boiling metal--just as my dear ancestors did around their fires.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Up
  • Done
  • Strong

• The only reason people write is because they are not wonderful men.

  

  Anthony J. Carson
  • Reason
  • Write
  • Wonderful

• You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Time
  • Space
  • Learn

• Crying over what's gone won't find the present.

  

  Edwin Louis Cole
  • Present
  • Crying

• I can't say I'm not nervous at all with media and doing speeches, but I'm getting used to it and better at it, hopefully.

  

  Lydia Ko