Walter Annenberg Quotes

Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.

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• I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Believe
  • Celebrity

• The student will try to defy the master. Always.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Always
  • Try
  • Student

• I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Work
  • Music
  • Girl

• Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Law
  • Foundation
  • Stability

• The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Know
  • Cancer
  • Need

• The anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Time
  • Anxiety
  • Late

• Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Film
  • Confidence
  • Commitment

• No person is just one particular emotion.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Person
  • Emotion
  • Just

• I was a normal American nerd.

  

  Jack Herer
  • American
  • Normal
  • Nerd

• I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Live
  • Present
  • Yesterday

• I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Religious
  • Hair
  • Never

• I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.

  

  Ice T
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Style
  • Enthusiasm
  • Skill

• I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Want

• I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Great
  • Music
  • Think

• 'Duty' is a refreshingly honest memoir and a moving one. Mr. Gates scrupulously identifies his flaws and mistakes: He waited too long, for example, for the military bureaucracy to fix critical supply issues like the drones needed in Iraq and took three years to replace a dysfunctional command structure in Afghanistan.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Long
  • Moving
  • Military

• I kind of liked the idea of filming musicians. I could like a musician and know, at the same time, maybe nobody else maybe liked them much or appreciated them.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Time
  • Same
  • Musicians

• E-mail, when it became mobile - what happened? Utilization of email went through the roof. Just pure Internet access and data - what happens when you mobilize it? Multiples. People are dependent upon broadband and as you mobilize it, they become even more dependent on broadband.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • People
  • Internet
  • Data

• People like Ellie Simmonds, David Weir, and Hannah Cockroft have become superstars alongside the likes of Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis. I think it has changed attitudes to disability.

  

  Lynn Davies
  • People

• My favorite English teacher in high school showed me 'Brazil' when I was 15, and it blew my mind. It's one of those movies that's revealed itself in different ways as I've gone back to it over the years.

  

  Win Butler
  • Different
  • Mind
  • School

• You and I are created for transcendence, laughter, caring. God deliberately did not make the world perfect, for God is looking for you and me to be fellow workers with God.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • World
  • God
  • Perfect

• I am doing better now though one of my legs is shorter than the other due to the operations.

  

  David Prowse

• The mind is key. If anything should be considered a god, so to speak, it is the mind, not money. A healthy positive mind is the utmost priority. But if we were to reverse the order of these priorities, what would happen? I find it hard to imagine how a person with great wealth, bad health, no friends, and no peace of mind could feel even slightly happy.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Great
  • God
  • Mind

• Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • World
  • School
  • Kids