Eileen Pollack Quotes

I was nearly as far behind in calculus as I was in physics. But I wasn't the only woman in the class, so I felt more comfortable asking questions.

Eileen Pollack

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• I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • People
  • Play
  • Characters

• Naturalization is the process by which a citizen, or subject of a foreign nation or kingdom, is made a citizen of the United States. It is evident that the Constitutional Convention thought that it was important that this process should be placed under the exclusive control of the Federal Government and not of the States.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Important
  • Control
  • Government

• As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.

  

  Kamla Persad-Bissessar
  • Different
  • Remember
  • Child

• I'm part Cuban, so anything with a good beat like Rumberos de Cuba gets me going.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • Good
  • Me
  • Cuba

• You don't have to paint your walls lime green just to try to have your home feel decorated. If you're a classic dresser or preppy dresser or a modern dresser, you wear a lot of black - whatever it is - your home should reflect that as well.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Home
  • Black
  • Green

• If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Nervous
  • Plane
  • Turbulence

• Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Death
  • Road
  • Find

• Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Virtue
  • Empathy
  • Judicial

• Many use Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes for daily transactions like going to theatres, malls, and trading purpose. People like these are unnecessarily put to inconvenience.

  

  Vijay
  • People
  • Purpose
  • Daily

• Yeah, about sixteen to twenty weeks a year. For example, we can do America in six or seven weeks. You can do Europe in three weeks; England in two weeks. South America you could do in three weeks; Asia you could do in three weeks.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • America
  • Year
  • Three

• If I can save one kid's life, for me, it's absolutely worth it.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Me

• In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • True
  • Nature
  • Learning

• Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman,' but on Thanksgiving you're putting on a show!

  

  Ted Allen
  • You
  • Waiting
  • Thanksgiving

• My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • She
  • Mother
  • Kind

• I like the idea of having a superordinary life.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Life
  • Like
  • Idea

• Privacy is important to me. But it's not just about sticking two fingers up and saying I don't want anyone to know my business. It's an artistic choice. I think that for any actor to convince their audience that they have completely inhabited a character requires a certain level of anonymity.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Important
  • Business

• Originality is dangerous.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Dangerous
  • Originality

• Abraham Lincoln is my name And with my pen I wrote the same I wrote in both hast and speed and left it here for fools to read.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Name
  • Read
  • Speed

• bends over *errgh* Sorry for making that noise, but … that's what happens when you get older. One day what happens is that you bend over, and you never come back.

  

  Craig Ferguson
  • Sorry

• Kein Drang nach Erkenntniß und Einsicht, um ihrer selbst Willen, belebt sein des Philisters Daseyn, auch keiner nach eigentlich ästhetischen Genüssen, als welcher dem ersteren durchaus verwandt ist. Was dennoch von Genüssen solcher Art etwan Mode, oder Auktorität, ihm aufdringt, wird er als eine Art Zwangsarbeit möglichst kurz abthun.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Art

• His mother told him, 'Someday you will be a man, And you will be the leader of a big old band. Many people coming from miles around To hear you play your music when the sun go down. Maybe someday your name will be in lights Saying 'Johnny B. Goode tonight'.'

  

  Chuck Berry
  • People
  • Music
  • Mother

• I don't think I've ever had more fun doing anything in my life than trading verses with Daryl Hall on 'Private Eyes.' That's as fun as it gets.

  

  Andrew Mayer Cohen
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Eyes

• The best things happen when you're not overthinking it.

  

  Ben Zobrist

• I was nearly as far behind in calculus as I was in physics. But I wasn't the only woman in the class, so I felt more comfortable asking questions.

  

  Eileen Pollack