Barbie Ferreira Quotes

I just want to make sure girls know they don't have to carry the weight of achieving nearly impossible standards on their shoulders every day.

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• Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • World
  • Kids

• I really like funny women. I'm drawn to women like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig, Amy Schumer. They're writers, they're producers, they're actresses. They're brilliant, funny, excellent women.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Women
  • Funny
  • Like

• There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Experience
  • You
  • Control

• So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it!

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Why
  • Law
  • Space

• I may discuss love, and I don't mind if two men fall in love, fine. Two women, fine. But I flinch when I think of two Jewish women getting together and having a child because the idea of having two Jewish mothers makes my head explode. I have one; I couldn't handle two.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Men
  • Women
  • Mind

• It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Influence
  • Impossible
  • View

• My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Feel
  • Weird
  • Connection

• ! want to leverage the creativity of researchers across mathematics, statistics, data mining, computer science, biology, medicine, and the public at large.

  

  Tan Le
  • Science
  • Creativity

• Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Nature
  • Religion
  • Islam

• I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

  

  Ovid
  • Achievement
  • Worth
  • Task

• People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Purpose
  • Find

• I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Leadership
  • Start
  • Leaders

• You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Good
  • Work
  • Taking Risks

• There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Original

• Just because a majority of the Supreme Court declares something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Court
  • Just Because

• I cannot change anything, so I don't want to think about what I would have done.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Done
  • Think
  • Want

• We felt that the public, and especially the children, like animals that are cute and little. I think we are rather indebted to Charlie Chaplin for the idea. We wanted something appealing, and we thought of a tiny bit of a mouse that would have something of the wistfulness of Chaplin - a little fellow trying to do the best he could.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Cute

• Stuart was not dismayed by his sexual feelings about the boy.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Boy

• I'm a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were thriving, vibrant places.

  

  Philip Caputo
  • Small

• No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic.

  

  James Larkin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Irish

• I don't even know if I always entirely get what I'm trying to say right away with lyrics. I like a lot of things that are more subtext. I grew up mishearing lyrics my whole life, but somehow there's so much more, too, that's implied in vocal delivery and the music itself and the gestural quality of it.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• I just want to make sure girls know they don't have to carry the weight of achieving nearly impossible standards on their shoulders every day.

  

  Barbie Ferreira